HOMELESS
PAUL
SIMON
SONGWRITERS:
JOSEPH
COUNTRY:
U. S. A.
ALBUM: GRACELAND
LABEL: WARNER RECORDS
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1986
Paul Frederic Simon(born October 13, 1941) is
an American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor whose career has spanned
six decades. He is
one of the most acclaimed songwriters in popular music.
Simon was born in Newark, New Jersey,
and grew up in the borough of Queens in New
York City. He began performing with his schoolfriend Art Garfunkel in 1956 when they were still in their early teens. After limited
success, the pair reunited after an electrified version of their song "The Sound of
Silence" became a hit in 1966. Simon &
Garfunkel recorded five albums together
featuring songs mostly written by Simon, including the hits "Mrs. Robinson",
"America",
"Bridge over
Troubled Water", and "The Boxer".
After Simon & Garfunkel split in 1970,
Simon recorded three acclaimed albums over the following five years, all of
which charted in the top 5 on the Billboard 200.
His 1972 self-titled album contained the hit songs "Mother and
Child Reunion" and "Me and Julio
Down by the Schoolyard". The 1975 album Still Crazy
After All These Years, which featured guest vocals
from Garfunkel, was his first number-one solo album, and featured the number 1
hit single "50 Ways to
Leave Your Lover", among other top-40 songs
such as "Still Crazy After All These Years",
"Gone at Last",
and "My Little Town".
Simon reunited with Garfunkel for a
performance in New York
Central Park in 1981, drawing half a million
spectators, followed by a world tour with Garfunkel. After a career slump,
Simon released Graceland, an
album inspired by South African township music,
which sold 14 million copies worldwide and remains his most popular and
acclaimed solo work. A number of hit singles were released from the album,
including "You Can Call Me Al",
"The Boy in
the Bubble", and "Diamonds on
the Soles of Her Shoes". It won the Grammy Award
for Album of the Year in 1987.
Simon continued to tour throughout the 1990s,
wrote a Broadway musical, The Capeman, and
recorded a companion album, Songs from
The Capeman which was released in 1997. His 2000
album You're the
One was nominated again for Album of the
Year honors. He followed that album up with several years of touring, including
another reunion tour with Garfunkel, and released Surprise,
his last album of the decade, in 2006. In 2016 he released Stranger to Stranger, which
debuted at number 3 on the Billboard Album Chart and number 1 the UK Albums Chart,
and marked his greatest commercial and critical success in thirty years. His
most recent album is 2018's In the Blue Light,
which contains re-arrangements of lesser-known songs from his prior albums.
Simon has earned sixteen Grammy Awards for his solo and collaborative work, including three for Album of
the Year (Bridge Over Troubled Water, Still Crazy After All These Years, and Graceland),
and a Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame: first in 1990 as a member of
Simon & Garfunkel and again in 2001 for his solo career. In 2006 he was
selected as one of the "100 People Who Shaped the World" by Time. In
2011, Rolling Stone named Simon one of the 100 greatest guitarists, and in 2015 he was
ranked eighth in their list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time.
Simon was the first recipient of the Library of
Congress's Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in 2007.
Graceland is the seventh solo studio album by
American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was
produced by Simon, engineered by Roy Halee and released on August 25, 1986, by Warner Bros. Records.
In the early 1980s, Simon's relationship with
his former musical partner Art Garfunkel had deteriorated, his marriage to actress Carrie Fisher had collapsed, and his previous record, Hearts and Bones(1983),
had been a commercial failure. In 1984, after a period of depression, Simon
became fascinated by a bootleg cassette of mbaqanga, South
African street music. He and Halee visited Johannesburg,
where they spent two weeks recording with South African musicians. Further
recordings were held in the United States, with guest musicians including Linda Ronstadt, the Everly
Brothers, Louisiana band Good Rockin' Dopsie and the Twisters,
and Mexican-American band Los Lobos.
Graceland features an eclectic mixture of
genres, including pop, rock, a cappella, zydeco, isicathamiya and mbaqanga.
Simon wrote
songs inspired by the recordings made in Johannesburg, collaborating with
African and American artists. He received criticism for
breaking the cultural boycott of South Africa because of its policy of apartheid.
Following its completion, Simon toured alongside South African musicians,
performing their music and songs from Graceland.
Graceland became Simon's most successful
studio album and his highest-charting album in over a decade; it is estimated
to have sold up to 16 million copies worldwide. It was lauded by critics, won
the 1987 Grammy for Album of the
Year, and is frequently cited as one of the best
albums of all time. In 2006, it was added to the United States' National
Recording Registry as "culturally,
historically, or aesthetically important".
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Homeless, homeless
Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
Homeless, homeless
Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
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The moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
And we are homeless, homeless, homeless
The moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
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nhliziyo yami
Nhliziyo yami
amakhaza asengi bulele
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nhliziyo yami
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angibulele amakhaza
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nhliziyo yami
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somandla angibulele mama
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yami
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nhliziyo yami
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loo
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our home
Many dead, tonight it could be you
Strong wind, strong wind
Many dead, tonight it could be you
And we are homeless,
homeless
Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
Homeless, homeless
Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
Homeless, homeless
Moonlight sleeping on a midnight lake
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(ih hih ih hih ih)
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Esanqoba phakathi e
England
Yitho omanqoba
Esanqoba phakathi e
London
Yitho omanqoba
Esanqoba phakathi e
England
Somebody say ih hih
ih hih ih
Somebody sing hello, hello, hello
Somebody say ih hih ih hih ih
Somebody cry why, why, why?
Somebody say ih hih ih hih ih
Somebody sing hello, hello, hello
Somebody say ih hih ih hih ih
Somebody cry why, why, why?
Kuluman
Kulumani, Kulumani sizwe
Singenze njani
Baya jabula abasi thanda yo
Ho!
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