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Kory
Jul-03-2006, 04:28 GMT
IP:
Canada
 | Hello all. I´ve heard this song hundreds of times. It´s an amazing song. I Love it. Could anyone give me some background/history of the song? Why did Paul write it? Etc. Thanks |
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Nick
Jul-03-2006, 06:07 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America
 | From 1966 at Tufts University:
"I came back from England to the United States in December of 1965. The Sounds Of Silence had become a big hit and when I returned I had to make this transition from being relatively unknown in England to a sort of semi-famous over here. I didn´t adjust well. It was always slightly embarrassing to me, teeny-bops etc. So I used to think all my sweets are gone ,good times gone, left over in England. All the songs I was writing were very down type of songs, nothing happy. Until about last June, for some reason last June I started to come out of it, I started to get into a good mood, I don´t know why. One day I was riding along in my Aston Martin and I said to myself.... no I really don´t have an Aston Martin, in fact I don´t have a car at all. I was the type of kid when I was in Paris, we´d sit on the side of the Seine, in Paris, and when the tourist boats go by, you know? I would yell out "Capitalist pig!". So here I am getting into this pleasant frame of mind and I was coming home one morning, about six o´clock in the morning and coming over the 59th Street bridge in New York and what a groovy day it was, a really good one, and one of those times when you know you´re not really going to be tired for about an hour. So I started writing a song which later became the 59th Street Bridge Song or Feelin´ Groovy.´ It really reminds me of such a groovy time."
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Nikki
Jul-03-2006, 12:43 GMT
IP:
Australia
 | capitalist pig - lol that´s hilarious. |
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Micky
Jul-03-2006, 13:58 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America
| Hehehehe...You can just see it Nikki Paul sat their yelling that at passers by. I also know he slept under the bridge too, hugging his guitar because he didn´t have enough money for a hotel or nothing. |
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Nikki
Jul-03-2006, 14:00 GMT
IP:
Australia
| Noooo Micky! we on the french forum have already had our wonderful illusions about that shattered! Georges Chatelain, who spent a lot of time with Paul during the sixties when he was in France, recently visited the forum and we of course asked him lots of questions. One of the things he said was that Paul never slept under bridges! |
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Alain
Jul-03-2006, 14:33 GMT
IP:
France
 | I think, Nikki it was not at the same time , because Paul said in Playboy (1984):
Simon : "There was a little valley of peace between the assassination of John Kennedy and the escalation of the war in Vietnam. I loved that time. I hitchhiked around Europe, sang in the streets, collected money. I lived a week under a bridge once, the Pont Neuf. Lived a week in a convent that took me in."
I think George Chatelain received Paul after this period , after "the song book" |
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Nikki
Jul-03-2006, 15:27 GMT
IP:
Australia
| Lol thanks Alain! I feel much better now. I had been very disappointed! |
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Simon Dooker
Jul-03-2006, 17:03 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
 | Yes you beat me to it, Alain i knew i had read it somewhere, and the convent bit. The entire Playboy interview finds Paul at his most revealing ( no pun intended)! and is required reading. |
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Nathgertsch
Jul-03-2006, 17:23 GMT
IP:
France
| I was sure the bridge in Paris was not a legend and that I had readen that story somewhere and when Mister Chatelain told us it was not true I was a bit disappointed ;-) But now we know it was not at the same time. |
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