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DannyJ
Oct-29-2009, 21:03 GMT
United Kingdom
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Just to add to Nick´s excellent post, when Paul returned to Liverpool in 2002... 37-8 years later... he said how happy he was to be back, and dedicated Homeward Bound to the audience... That was a very special moment for me... the crowd went nuts!
The bootleg is up on DIME if anyone wants to hear him say it ;-)
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Forum guest
Sep-19-2010, 04:52 GMT
Canada
 | Hi Bing, Sorry to say you are incorrect. Paul was on Widnes railway station-in fact he missed the last train to London that night. I sent him on that tour of one nighters as I was his agent during his time in England. We recorded a demo of it the next day when I picked him up at the station in London. The demo was recorded at Lorna Music (run by Alan Paramour- Norries brother) in London´s Denmark St that day while it was fresh in Pauls mind. Paul told me he wrote it around 3am not happy that I had sent him on that tour. The book "The Boy In The Bubble " by Humphries is also packed with innacuracies and half truths which I am hoping to correct.
You may be interested to know that Paul & Art also did "Discs a-Go-G0" for TWW that most reports seem to miss. That was July 1965.
Graham Wood. |
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Forum guest
Sep-19-2010, 10:15 GMT
United Kingdom
| Nick from Widnes England writes:
Thanks Graham for your comments would Love to read more details regards you being Paul´s Uk agent back in 1965.
Are you writing a book on the subject if so I would like a copy and am sure other forum members would too.
Let me know via the forum any other details of Paul´s time in England. |
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Ian
Sep-19-2010, 10:16 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | Ahh,revisionists-where would we be without them? We´d all still think that Captain Cook was a great explorer and genius navigator and not the interloping ponce ´they´ would have us believe he was. Lee Harvey Oswald of course didn´t kill Kennedy-it was a collection of disgruntled Cubans(wait,that one might be true actually). Well you get the idea anyway. Surely Paul like most musicians,writers,guitarists might have already had some of the chords,opening lick and even some lyrical fragments in his mind before that night at the station when inspiration struck and he was able to complete his song. It could be that simple,yeah? Please let some things remain the way they´ve always been,especially when there´s enough evidence to suggest that it´s probably correct anyway. |
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Bodo
Sep-19-2010, 11:18 GMT
Austria
 | Hello Graham - thanks for that insight information, which sounds very accurate and clear to me.
It is interesting to read an answer to this posting now, 6 years after it has been written (I wonder if the original poster is still around?)
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Brenda
Sep-19-2010, 12:25 GMT
Australia
 | here is a link to Homeward Bound Live Liverpool 2002
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30pIJiC0ymI |
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Brenda
Sep-22-2010, 13:52 GMT
Australia
| In June 2004 Paul and Art were interviewed by Scott Simon. In reply to Scott´s question to Paul on his opinion of Homeward Bound he replied That is a really nice song. It means a lot to me. I really was in a railway station in the North of England writing about a specific person ans wanting to get back to her. |
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Michiel
Sep-22-2010, 19:56 GMT
Netherlands
 | This demo which I got from Rob is by Paul solo, from around 1965, no further details. There are a few small differences compared to later performances.
link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SEFDZ035 |
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Forum guest
Oct-06-2010, 04:02 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| Graham Wood, is it really you??? remember me Melanie Milhuisen? How are you? Hey! who else would know all the facts about Paul in the summer of 65. PLease email me
[email protected] Do you have any picture´s of The Cambridge Folk festival or Ready Steady Go.
Melanie Ezekiel |
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Forum guest
Mar-28-2011, 16:36 GMT
United Kingdom
| I was at the minor bird folk club at the Red Lion Bridge Street,Warrington in 1965 when Paul Simon performed Homeward Bound for the very first time. he had arrived at Warrington Bank Quay Station and quipped that he could have easily written it there (it is right alongside the massive and station dominating Lever brothers factory)However he said that it had been inspired by Earlestown station (not Widnes as in popular myth) so we couldn´t take the credit. I was gobsmacked by the performance of this then unknown and bought him a pint and had a chat with him after the set. This led to the writing much later of the following poem.
MEETING PAUL
Parking myself lazily at a Lion* table,
Solitary,
No former school friends able to join me
I sip silently from deep winking amber filled glass
It?s lip beckoning me to further withdrawal.
I deserved this break, this escape
From cloistering myself in the study of Keats
A disappointing announcement,
Resident singer is replaced by an unknown face,
Dark crouched figure on a stool
Holding his guitar closely to him anticipating
Like a nightingale perched on oustretched branch.
I listened attentively as the sound of silence
Swelled slowly through the room
Framing his voice
Catching me off guard
Connecting so hard with something deep.
He shared the pull of home last night,
A railway platform in Earlestown.
His loneliness filtered through the smoke filled room,
Mingling with my own, the chords shunting a new tune,
He was Homeward Bound
At the end of the set I found him
Imparted my joy in the poetry
That like the ale we now shared
Had flown through me.
His humility contrasted my future lack
As to this tale of lyrical ale I would often return
For years.
But it was his story
His glory
Not mine.
Roger Boon
* The Red Lion ,Bridge Street, Warrington.
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Mimi
Mar-28-2011, 17:29 GMT
Austria
| That is a great story, Roger. Thank you for sharing it. |
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John
Sep-30-2025, 20:07 GMT
USA - United Staates America
| It is a verified fact that Paul Simon did a lot more than pass through Widnes. He played at Geoff Speed's folk club, The Howff, held at a hotel in Widnes town Centre. Geoff said the song had been started earlier, but Widnes inspired Paul to want to get home, and he finished it in Geoff's home.
Paul was paid 12 pounds for the gig and Geoff accommodated him. |
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Brenda
Oct-11-2025, 00:44 GMT
USA - United Staates America
 | Eight of the songs performed in Sept 1965 at Geoff Speeds club in Widnes were uploaded to You Tube a few years ago ( Roger Dennison Tape ) I downloaded them before they were taken down shortly after . They were I Am A Rock , Anji, April Come She Will, A Church is Burning, Bleecker Street, Blessed, Sound of Silence ,The Sun is Burning . also Sound of Silence from Birkenhead a couple of days earler, Sound is pretty good too . A few words about Liverpool and London before A Church is Burning .
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