Rosemary In Time
Jul-23-2006, 19:40 GMT
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It´s his then-girlfriend and muse, Kathleen Mary (Kathy) Chitty. She is referred to in Kathy´s Song, America, and Homeward Bound.
They met at the very first coffeehouse Paul played when he arrived in England in 1964. She was three years younger than him. Paul also referred to her in the version of A Simple Desultory Phillipic included on the Paul Simon Songbook in the lines:
When in London
Do as I do
Find yourself a friendly haiku
Go to sleep for 10 or 15 years
Kathy was the "friendly haiku" on account of the fact she rarely spoke. They broke up in 1965, right about the time The Sound Of Silence became a big hit. Some accounts have it that Kathy wanted no part of the success and fame that awaited Paul.
Paul didn´t hear from Kathy again until May 1991 when he was touring
England with Born At The Right Time and, to his delight, received a
letter from her. The British tabloids jumped on the story. They found her married with three children and living in a remote village in the Welsh mountains, working part-time at a technical college. She wasn´t, however, interested in talking to the press. |
