A few weeks ago we told you that a new biography about Paul Simon by Marc Eliot will be released soon.
In the meantime some details and pages have been revealed on amazon.com - I have read them and have to say: I have never seen such an inaccurate book, full of errors and wrong information.
Check for yourself:
http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Simon-Life-Marc-Eliot/d
p/0470433639/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=128012
6599&sr=8-1
Marc Eliot writes biographies about a lot of differnet artists, he seems to earn his money by doin that. So he does not care about quality or exact information - in my opinion. Check out what other people think about Marc Eliots biography about Jimmy Stewart:
http://www.amazon.com/Jimmy-Stewart-Biography-Marc
-Eliot/product-reviews/140005222X/ref=cm_cr_dp_syn
op?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&sortBy=bySubmissionDat
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I can only tell you, if you buy this book then be aware that the information is either not right, or in the wrong order, wrong year numbers appear everywhere.
Example sentence: After Paul broke up with Art Garfunkel he started a solo career releasing Kodachrome.
Or: Paul and Art continued to give concerts together until 1986.
At the moment I can not recommend to buy this book if you want to search for serious information. Maybe it has good and entertaining stories about Bob Dylan vs. Paul Simon (Marc Eliot seems to love Dylan). Maybe this book also has some really new stories no one knows about, but even than you can not be sure about the time and place and accuracy.
Extra comment: On the back cover is written it includes never seen before pictures, do not coun´t on that. All pictures come from Warner, Sony, gettyimages or wireimages.
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