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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes anybody know anything about Paul Simon's state of health?
He's on Joe Scar right now talking about his foundation for the homeless.
I haven't seen him for several years and am shocked at how much he's aged and how unhealthy he looks.
Anybody in the know?
lapfog_1
(29,243 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Nevernose
(13,081 posts)On stage he seems about 18 and in perfect health.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)he looks really worn.
MuseRider
(34,140 posts)and he was certainly fit and sounded better than ever. Long concert, no breaks and he just never stopped.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)performing recently.
Maybe he was just having a bad day or the fact of being on Joe Scar was getting him down.
DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)some of us get better with age.
Y'know?
MuseRider
(34,140 posts)I am learning that on a personal level!
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)spanone
(135,950 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)He looks a little scruffy--like he just had time to throw on his clothes, run his fingers through his thinning hair, and get down to the studio.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)that he'll be 71 in a few weeks time ?
This from 3 years ago so maybe compare with that :
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Now his face is all puffy and saggy, and he's much paler.
I thought immediately of cortisone treatment.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)As somebody up-thread suggested--maybe he's just not a morning person and was half awake.
lpbk2713
(42,775 posts)... and younger than he'll be, that's not unusual.
No it isn't strange, after changes upon changes,
we are more or less the same.
After changes we are more or less the same.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)lpbk2713
(42,775 posts)I keep this one in my bookmarks and play it often:
Just S&G with Paul's guitar and very little other accompaniment. Just a bit from Paul Shaffer and his band.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Thanks for this link, lpbk. First time I've seen this vid. When was it recorded?
From the looks of Dave's hair color, I'd say this was at least 5+ years ago. Do you know?
lpbk2713
(42,775 posts)From some of the Y/T remarks I read it looks like it might be 2004-06.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)that they haven't lost it like Paul McCartney and Rod Stewart
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)for 2nd place. In any case, they've never done a song or album I didn't adore.
lpbk2713
(42,775 posts)(Sorry for not including it)
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Will go and find it on YouTube now.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)sadbear
(4,340 posts)He looked and sounded good to me.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)him this morning.
I don't want him going anywhere for a long, long time yet (or Art G. either). Their music is the sound track of my life!
nolabear
(42,005 posts)It was Paul Simon. From when I was about thirteen and he was 26. He needs another twenty at least.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Same here, nolabear, Paul's lyrics and melodies affect me in a way few musicians do.
And when he and Art G. are at their best, nobody can touch them. Magic.
I want them both around for a long time to come.
nolabear
(42,005 posts)I'm gonna cry.
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)undeterred
(34,658 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Paladin
(28,287 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)his puffiness and paleness this morning.
His and Art G.'s music has been the background music of my life.
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Time passing so quickly just never stops being weird.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)I don't recognize it. Can you clue me in?
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)Old friends, old friends
Sat on their park bench like bookends
A newspaper blown through the grass
Falls on the round toes
Of the high shoes of the old friends
Old friends, winter companions, the old men
Lost in their overcoats, waiting for the sunset
The sounds of the city sifting through trees
Settle like dust on the shoulders of the old friends
Can you imagine us years from today
Sharing a park bench quietly?
How terribly strange to be seventy
Old friends, memory brushes the same years
Silently sharing the same fears
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)"Concert in Central Park" and heard this and thought how they really are "old friends" now.
But, I'd forgotten some of the lyrics. Thanks, cbdo.
mangermerdeRWfreaks
(39 posts)Singing Still Crazy After All These Years on the GOOD SNL
I will never forget that appearance, it was great.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)and self-deprecation. But, like all geniuses, he's probably not easy to live with!
mangermerdeRWfreaks
(39 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)can't make up for.
Somehow, though, I doubt that money is the driving force in the Simon family.
Interesting user name you've got there. To be grammatically correct in French, it should read: Mangez de la merde...
It is the imperative, after all!
bigtree
(86,020 posts)Brickell married singer-songwriter Paul Simon on May 30, 1992. Brickell was performing on NBC's Saturday Night Live on Saturday November 5, 1988 when she noticed Simon standing in front of the cameraman. "He made me mess the song up when I looked at him," she said with a smile. "We can show the kids the tape and say, 'Look, that's when we first laid eyes on each other.'" Brickell and Simon have three childrenAdrian, Lulu and Gabriel.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Glad he's got a close family life--that helps, they say.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)Last edited Fri Sep 28, 2012, 08:31 AM - Edit history (3)
Disquieting to see one of your heros getting old, and to realize you're undergoing the same process!
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)Lifestyle habits vary among individuals. Genetics, diet also play a role in how one ages.
Just be lucky you don't look like him. I could care less about how one ages. I'm too busy worrying about myself.
So he looks like crap, so what?
I googled, and it doesn't appear that he's sick in any way besides the normal things that come with one being his age.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)and that's what worried me.
Glad to hear he's only got the usual complaints that come with 7 decades, and not something more serious.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Funny how I haven't changed, though.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)in my mind, I still see them exactly as they are and will forever be in their yearbook portraits. Bizarre!
graham4anything
(11,464 posts)and the publicity photos are touched up and airbrushed a bit.
Art is scheduled to play NJ October 5, his first solo concert in the area since he developed severed vocal problems that caused the S&G tour to be cancelled.
As the years have passed, Paul really has proven to be THE #1 songwriter of the rock and roll era, surpassing Dylan.
You can take Paul's lyrics to just about every serious lyrical song and it still applies today, some almost 50 years later.
(and his song American Tune, sheesh, that could have been word for word written after 9-11...
and it was 25 plus years earlier.)
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)photo up-thread (airbrushed a bit).
He was looking all of his nearly 71 years on Joe Scar this morning. But then, just the fact of having to show up and talk to the blowhard may've caused him some distress! LOL!
But, who cares what he looks like, as long as he keeps producing and performing some of the best music in the world.
He and Art G. are American treasures. I agree that Paul has surpassed Dylan by the sheer volume and scope of his work.
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)(and his song American Tune, sheesh, that could have been word for word written after 9-11...
and it was 25 plus years earlier.)
...the music was written around four-hundred-and-fifty years earlier -- Simon lifted it from the "Passion Chorale" by sixteenth-century composer Hans Leo Hassler.
Granted, Simon certainly isn't the first old folkie to appropriate a public-domain melody as his own -- Dylan was legendary for doing so -- but, as Bill Clinton might have put it, it takes a lot of brass to borrow a Renaissance-era German hymn and title it "American Tune."
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)I look kinda wore out at that hour, too, and I'm a bit younger than he is.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)especially to go on Joe Scar, is enough to make anybody look less than their best.
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