Homeward Bound (63 page)

None of the leading stars: Dave Marsh, “What Do You Do When You're Not a Kid Anymore and You Still Want to Rock and Roll?,”
Rolling Stone
, October 30, 1980.

Paul also accelerated his campaign: Jerome, “Still Creative After All These Years.”

“She's really got the goods”: Ibid.

“'60s college-kid alienation”: Carrie Rickey, “One-Trick Pony Review,”
Village Voice
, October 8–14, 1980.

“Shouldn't the dramatic catharsis”: Ibid.

“It was all a bit unsettling”: Author interview with Ariel Bruce.

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  WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?

Something great was coming next: Author interview with Lenny Waronker, June 2013.

Paul called Dr. Roderic Gorney: Author interview with Rod Gorney, November 21, 2014.

He was young, healthy, talented: Paul Simon interview with Tony Schwartz,
Playboy
.

At the end of the first session: Ibid.

“For me that was brilliant. And liberating”: Ibid.

telephone call from … concert promoter: Author interview with Ron Delsener, December 13, 2014; author interview with Lenny Waronker, May 2014; author interview with Russ Titelman, November 2014; Paul Simon interview with Tony Schwartz,
Playboy
.

“Nah. I thought you”: Interview with Art Garfunkel,
Paul Simon Songbook
, BBC Radio 6, 1991.

“Yes, it would seem”: Chris Charlesworth, “Art Garfunkel: Art for Art's Sake.”

they could barely look at each other: Author interview with Bunny Freidus, December 12, 2014.

Paul's first thought: Author interview with Ron Delsener.

Artie wanted to pick up: Ibid., and Paul Simon interview with Tony Schwartz,
Playboy
.

“We're back from the boulevard”: Robert Palmer, “Simon & Garfunkel Take on Central Park,”
New York Times
, September 18, 1981.

“Fun is the key”: Ibid.

“We'll stick Artie with the check”: Author interview with Mort Lewis.

“That,” he said, “is a great idea”: Ibid.

That was the plan: Thomas R. King,
The Operator
(New York: Random House, 2000).

“The songs are more like stories”: Chris Connelly, “Simon and Garfunkel Reunite in Central Park,”
Rolling Stone
, October 29, 1981.

“What did you expect?”: Author interview with Lenny Waronker, June 2013.

As Paul had made clear: Paul Simon interviews, Art Garfunkel interviews,
Paul Simon Songbook
, BBC Radio 6, 1991.

“This is exactly what's gonna happen”: Author interview with Lenny Waronker, June 2013.

“What's he
doing
?”: Ibid.

He resisted guidance: Author interview with Russ Titelman, November 2013.

“Don't be hurt by my behavior”: Paul Simon interview with Tony Schwartz,
Playboy
.

“On a certain level”: Ibid.

“How can you carry that betrayal”: Ibid.

When they finally got onstage: Author interviews with Arlen Roth, 2014–2015.

“God, I felt great”: Paul Hendrickson, “Paul Simon: Two for the Road; In Town on Tour with Garfunkel,”
Washington Post
, August 13, 1983.

“You're against this”: Author interview with Lenny Waronker, May 29, 2013; author interview with Russ Titelman, April 2, 2014.

“I guess I was supposed to conclude”: Art Garfunkel interview,
Paul Simon Songbook
, BBC Radio.

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  THESE ARE THE ROOTS OF RHYTHM

“I not only don't like you”: Carrie Fisher,
Wishful Drinking
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008), p. 97.

Greenwich Village boutiques: John Swenson, “Simon's Rhymin', This Time to a Soweto Beat,” UPI, January 12, 1987.

Carrie's drug use escalated: Tim Appelo, “Carrie Fisher Spills the Beans,”
Savvy Woman
, September 1990; Tim Appelo, “Still Crazy,”
City Arts
, April 1, 2009.

close to Penny Marshall: Penny Marshall,
My Mother Was Nuts
(New York: New Harvest, 2012).

“We both did it”: Audience tape of concert, August 22, 1983.

“Here's a song I wrote in 1966”: Ibid.

“the most convincing case”: Stephen Holden, “Paul Simon Uses Rock as a Springboard for the Mature Act,”
New York Times
, October 30, 1983.

“descend at the top”: Art Garfunkel's handwritten notes for “Think Too Much” harmonies, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's library.

“You should talk to”: Author interview with Heidi Berg, December 12, 2015.

why don't you go to South Africa: Ibid.

Waronker knew exactly whom: Author interview with Hilton Rosenthal, July 9, 2014.

Rosenthal had another idea: Ibid.

Make the calls: Ibid.

“Where's my end?”: Author interview with Heidi Berg.

“I can introduce you to”: Harry Belafonte interview,
Under African Skies
, dir. Joe Berlinger, A&E Television Networks, 2013.

“I saw right then and there”: Ibid.

“It's like having your dad”: Paul Simon interview,
Under African Skies
.

Stanley Corsi called back: Author interview with Hilton Rosenthal.

Founded by Dutch traders: Coplan,
In Township Tonight!

The advent of recorded sound: Ibid.

When preeminent South African record label: Ibid.

A month or two after: Ibid.

“Almost like the greatest”: Charles M. Young, “Paul Simon: The Soweto Factor,”
Sunday Times
(UK), August 24, 1986.

“I am thinking,
Who
”: Joseph Shabalala interview,
Under African Skies
.

“The niggas were letting”: Author interview with Richard Milner.

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  I'VE GOT NOTHING TO APOLOGIZE FOR

“They both encouraged me”: Stephen Holden, “Paul Simon Brings Home the Music of Black South Africa,”
New York Times
, August 24, 1986.

“I wasn't going there”: Randy Sue Coburn, “Ambassador of Music Paul Simon's New Album a Bridge Over Troubled Cultures,”
Chicago Tribune
, August 24, 1986.

Shadowed by a handful: Jennifer Allen, “The Apostle of Angst,”
Esquire
, June 1987; James C. McBride, “Paul Simon, Under Fire at Howard; Irate Students Protest SA Album,”
Washington Post
, January 9, 1987.

“How could you go over there”: Ibid.

Batson shouted about cultural diffusion: Ibid.

“You don't think it's possible?”: Ibid.

“Reagan has my best”: Roy Coleman, “Paul Simon Breaks the Sound of Silence,”
Melody Maker
, 1980.

“an anachronism”: “Paul Simon/Pop Think-In: The Biggest Thing Dylan Has Got Going for Him Is His Mystique,”
Melody Maker
, April 30, 1966.

“Rhodesia,” Paul said, “causes a lot”: Ibid.

He felt the same way: Steven Van Zandt interview with Dave Marsh,
Kick Out the Jams with Dave Marsh
, Sirius/XM E Street Radio, 2014; Dan Solomon, “Steven Van Zandt Tells the Story of ‘Sun City' and Fighting Apartheid in South Africa,”
Fastcocreate
, December 13, 2013,
http://www.fastcocreate.com/3023454/steven-van-zandt-tells-the-story-of-sun-city-and-fighting-apartheid-in-south-africa
.

Dozens of the era's: Steven Van Zandt interview,
Kick Out the Jams with Dave Marsh
.

“Why are you defending that Mandela guy”: Ibid.

“You and Henry Kissinger”: Ibid.

Ronstadt was one of the elite: Aaron Latham, “Linda Ronstadt: Snow White in South Africa,”
Rolling Stone
, August 18, 1983.

“Authoritarian governments on the right”: Robert Christgau, “South African Romance,”
Village Voice
, September 26, 1986.

Born in Britain: Author interviews with Johnny Clegg, September 2014.

“This is very complicated”: Ibid.

“an artist completely opposed”: Michael Maren, “The Sins of Paul Simon,”
Africa Report
, July 1, 1987.

“I've got nothing to apologize for”: Ibid.

“funny statements”: Ibid.

“We think the whole episode”: Ibid.

It was galling: Author interview with Steve Berlin, February 4, 2014.

“just play something”: Ibid.

“Nope, nope, nope”: Ibid.

“I swear I'll make it up to you”: Ibid.

“Wait, what's that?”: Ibid.

Hidalgo led the rest: Ibid.

You don't like it?
: Ibid.

“They live, along with other South African”: Paul Simon acceptance speech for
Graceland
, Album of the Year, Grammy Awards, February 24, 1987.

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  THE WHOLE WORLD WHISPERING

“To me … a moral position cannot be broken”: Ken Franckling, “Mandela Rally Draws 325,000,” UPI, June 23, 1990.

Paul got the idea while chatting: Paul Simon interview with Craig Inciardi, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's library.

he got a call from Quincy Jones: Ibid.; author e-mail interviews with Marco Mazzola, October–November 2013.

“Lyme disease” he noted: Paul Simon interview with Craig Inciardi, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's library.

Paul arrived at Mazzola's studio: Author interview with Marco Mazzola.

The group had a staunch commitment: Dubner, “The Pop Perfectionist”; Carol Cooper, “The Noise from Brazil,”
Elle
, August 1989.

After hearing the fourteen-strong: Phil Ramone with Charles L. Granata
,
Making Records: The Scenes Behind the Music
(New York: Hyperion, January 1, 2007), p. 168.

When Paul followed the drummers' trail: Paul Zollo, “Recording with Roy Halee,”
Songtalk
, April 1990.

The divorce from Carrie hadn't taken: Ed Bradley interview with Carrie Fisher,
60 Minutes
, CBS, January 6, 1991; Susan Wloszczyna, “Fisher's Mother Lode: Hollywood's Raconteur Strikes Gold,”
USA Today
, September 12, 1990; Diane Sawyer interview with Carrie Fisher, “Carrie's Story: Carrie Fisher Discusses Battle with Drugs and Manic Depression,”
ABC News
, December 21, 2000.

Maybe the jungle held more spells: Timothy White, “The Rhythm Method: Paul Simon's Solo Expeditions,”
Goldmine
, April 3, 1992; Carl Wayne Arrington, “Carrie Fisher: A Spy in Her Own House,”
Time
, October 15, 1990.

“He said, ‘Oh, that's nothing'”: White, “The Rhythm Method.”

“It felt like it was pulsing”: Arrington, “Carrie Fisher: A Spy in Her Own House.”

“It's not an argument”: Tim Appelo, “Carrie Fisher Spills the Beans,”
Savvy Woman
, September 1990; Tim Appelo, “Still Crazy,”
City Arts
, April 1, 2009.

Paul had spent a million dollars: Stephen Holden, “Paul Simon's Journey to Brazil and Beyond,”
New York Times
, October 14, 1990.

“When Chris Botti”: Author interview with Chris Botti, November 19, 2013.

“I'd rather wish Paul well from afar”: Douglas Martin, “About New York; Just Simon in the Park, to Garfunkel's Disappointment,”
New York Times
, August 14, 1991.

“I'm not good enough to be invited”: Ibid.

When the
New Musical Express
writer: Gavin Martin, “When the Saints Go Cashing In,”
New Musical Express
, October 27, 1990.

It happened just before 2:00 a.m.: Author interviews with Attie van Wyk, September 22, 2014; and Rory Steyn, September 2014.

“Three guys and a fax machine”: Author interview with Attie van Wyk.

“We have always pointed”: Tom Cohen, “Militant South Africans to Protest Paul Simon Concerts Peacefully,” Associated Press, January 10, 1992.

“I think he showed his true self”: Author interview with Marco Mazzola.

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  PHANTOM FIGURES IN THE DUST

“We can show the kids the tape”: Colleen Long, “Edie Brickell Releases Her First New Album in a Decade,” Associated Press, December 29, 2003.

“recapturing as purely”: Sheila Rule, “The Pop Life,”
New York Times
, June 16, 1993.

“I felt a lot of affection”: Greg Kot, “Still Crazy After All These Years; Paul Simon Looks Back—and Ahead—After 3 Musical Decades,”
Chicago Tribune
, October 10, 1993.

“It is sophomoric, inflated talk”: “Talk of the Town: (Still) Looking for America,”
New Yorker
, October 11, 1993.

Then it was happening again: Author interview with Chris Botti, November 19, 2013; author interviews with Jerry Garfunkel, April 23–24, 2013.

“Neither could speak the next morning”: Author interview with Chris Botti.

“There were gangs in Queens”: David Hinckley, “Homeward Bound—In ‘The Capeman' Paul Simon Returns to the NY of His Youth,”
New York Daily News
, November 16, 1997.

“I was in a couple of fights”: Larry McShane, “Paul Simon's Controversial ‘Capeman' Hits Broadway,” Associated Press, December 12, 1997.

the sound of his youth: Timothy White, “The Secret History of Simon's ‘Capeman,'”
Billboard
, November 3, 1997.

In late 1967 he had signed up: Sam Zolotow, “Dustin Hoffman to Try Broadway; Star of ‘The Graduate' Cast in a Schisgal Musical,”
New York Times
, May 20, 1968.