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Jim
May-12-2005, 23:38 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America

for my humanities class we are to give a presentation on an artist of our choice but we need a biography on that person. I chose obviously to do paul, so if anyone would give me their take on a biography that´s any better than others of paul I´d appreciate it. thanks in advance

Klausi
May-14-2005, 08:07 GMT
IP:
Germany

There are not many books written about Paul Simon. The ones I know are all quite good. If you want to have the most actual I would recommend Laura Jacksons "the definitve biography", although I don`t like this title at all.

Roswhita Ebel wrote a better one, but in german language.

Bee-lee
May-14-2005, 09:25 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America

The biography by Laura Jackson got poor reviews on Amazon, so you might want to look elsewhere. I was looking for a good bio a couple months back, but many of them are out of print. I settled on "Old Friends" by Morella and Barey. It follows S&G up to around 1990. I was hoping for more nuggets of little known information in the book, but there should be more than enough material for your presentation.

Bee-lee
May-14-2005, 09:29 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America

The biography by Laura Jackson got poor reviews on Amazon, so you might want to look elsewhere. I was looking for a good bio a couple months back, but many of them are out of print. I settled on "Old Friends" by Morella and Barey. It follows S&G up to around 1990. I was hoping for more nuggets of little known information in the book, but there should be more than enough material for your presentation.

Bee-lee
May-14-2005, 09:43 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America

Whoops, double-post! Might as well make it a "hat-trick"

http://www.ckk.chalmers.se/guitar/simon.bio.album.
html

Here´s an overview of some more bios. For the Jackson book, the Amazon reviews complained about the writing style of the author.

Klausi
May-14-2005, 11:13 GMT
IP:
Germany

You are right, there are better books, but (much) older.

Micky
May-18-2005, 23:12 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom

Nothing like hogging the board...lol!!!

Hugs

Me

Bee-lee wrote on May-14 at 09:43

Whoops, double-post! Might as well make it a "hat-trick"

http://www.ckk.chalmers.se/guitar/simon.bio.album.
html

Here´s an overview of some more bios. For the Jackson book, the Amazon reviews complained about the writing style of the author.

Micky
May-18-2005, 23:18 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom

Patrick Humphries "Bookend" was an excellent book.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/086276062
3/qid=1116454557/sr=1-11/ref=sr_1_2_11/202-9383217
-9795808

He later added some more things and re-tittled the book "The Boy In The Bubble" and it was about Pauls solo career.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/028399545
9/qid=1116454557/sr=1-13/ref=sr_1_2_13/202-9383217
-9795808

I´d go for the second one as it´s about Paul´s solo career. But, "Bookends" has some brilliant pictures, better than "Boy..."

Hugs

Me

ivalo
May-19-2005, 13:01 GMT
IP:
Finland

http://thedreamerofmusic.com/Book&maga/Book/bo
ok.htm

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