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Mimi
Nov-02-2006, 18:49 GMT
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For everyone in the London Area - try this:

http://www.waleg.com/celebrities/archives/005606.h
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Mimi
Nov-02-2006, 18:52 GMT
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The link doesn´t work. I can´t cut and paste - I don´t know why. But go to Google - News and search for Paul Simon and you will find some sites, where you can win tickets for an intimate concert in London.

Tom
Nov-03-2006, 15:51 GMT
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Thanks alot Mimi! Fingers crossed!

Bodo
Nov-06-2006, 12:13 GMT
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You meant that thread John... well, that didn´t get too much attention somehow.

So 300 people have been there, people, I wonder - WHO ARE THESE 300 people? How do they know what we - the die hard fans - most of the time do not know - how do they get tickets? Are there just friends of the BBC people and concert promoters and music managers?
I guess Howard has been there, right?

Howard
Nov-06-2006, 13:17 GMT
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I only found out about the concert last Thursday but because I had something prearranged for my daughter (I am not allowed to talk about her as its spamming)I therefore did not try and attend.

Howard
Nov-06-2006, 13:22 GMT
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As an add on I think the BBC are doing a new documentary on Paul based on the the early days in England back in 1964/1965.

I had a call last week from the guy who runs The Hermit Club in Brentwood. It seems a researcher wants to interview me as I was at The Hermit Club in 1964 when Paul first appeared in England.

The guy who runs the Hermit Club has my number as my daughter Francesca performed "American Tune" at The Hermit Club 40 years later almost to the day when Paul first was at the Hermit Club.

Bodo
Nov-06-2006, 18:49 GMT
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That would be a very interesting documentation, and it would be great if Paul is included in that somehow - so you will give them an interview?

Maybe they will make a small career retrosprective and then air the last Sundays concert.

BingFrisby
Nov-07-2006, 18:21 GMT
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WOW, Howard.....great news here!!Will be great to see this.I know that Bodo and I have mentioned in the past great interest in this part of Simon´s career and that it is a part of his life that is still quite sketchy in parts.Personally this period 1964/65 is my favourite Paul Simon period based on what is commonly known.There is no doubt that there are people still living who also remember seeing, meeting or knowing of events relating to this time period.Victoria Kingston´s book is a very good source yet there is much to fill in....esp his time in Paris and other areas of Northwest England.I was once talking to a member of Chorley folk club who knew the man that booked Simon to play upstairs in a pub in Bolton, Lancashire....to NINE people!!Also, a great source would be Al Stewart who shared accomodation with S&G in the 60s and was privvy to hearing the original Homeward Bound.Paul´s voice was heard in a recent programe called "Folk Britannia" in which he spoke of his time in England in 64/5..(The audio used by the BBC was from the Wogan TV interview in August 1986)I have this entire 10 minute interview on video from the time an Paul mentions that this was where he learned the "craft of performing".I hope to be able to share this 10 min footage someday when I have the facility to transfer it, as no one else seems to have it or be aware of it.He looks good on it and is very droll and dry with Wogan.I also have the Sue Lawley interview from the Born At The Right Time tour promotion.

Simon Dooker
Nov-08-2006, 16:55 GMT
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Also my favourite part of Pauls career....just before fame.
If the BBC were to release the entire Five to Ten session, of January 1965,this would be abetter way to commemorate his time in England. Replete with Pauls own commentaries between songs, itis a far more authentic souvenier of the period, than the superficial stuff given to other interviewers. Segments were aired during Stuart Grundys, first rate radio documentary for the BBC in the mid 1990s.
A tv documentary sounds fine , but how much input Paul himself would have is a moot point.
You are definitely right about Al Stuart. His recent auto biography is especially detailed on PS time in England.

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