Homeward Bound (62 page)

“We'd like to introduce”:
Monterey Pop
, dir. D. A. Pennebaker, Leacock-Pennebaker Inc., London, 1968.

“Ah, you dig the red lights”: Ibid.

“Make sure to tell 'em!”: Author interview with Keith Altham, February 2, 2014.

As reenvisioned by Mike Nichols: Sam Kashner, “Here's to You, Mr. Nichols: The Making of the Graduate,”
Vanity Fair
, no. 571, March 2008.

“Jewish
inside
”: Ibid.

Nichols was born in Berlin: Bruce Weber, “Mike Nichols, Urbane Director Loved by Crowds and Critics Dies at 83,”
New York Times
, November 20, 2014.

Paul and Artie were initially dubious: Kashner, “Here's to You, Mr. Nichols.”

they agreed to provide: Peter Bart, “The Back Lot,”
Variety
, May 16–25, 2005.

At long last, a trickle: Kashner, “Here's to You, Mr. Nichols”; Peter Bart, “The Back Lot.”

Except for that there was: Zollo, “Breakfast with Art Garfunkel”; Kashner, “Here's to You, Mr. Nichols; Peter Bart, “The Back Lot.”

As Davis knew: Author interview with Clive Davis, December 3, 2013.

“Not the way Paul”: Ibid.; author interviews with Mike Tannen.

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  BOOKENDS

When the successful British pop band: Graham Nash,
Wild Tales
(New York: Crown, 2013).

In the spring of 1967 Paul rented: Author interviews with Mike Tannen; author interview with Chuck Israels, August 7, 2013; Greenfeld, “For Simon & Garfunkel All Is Groovy.”

Talking to a reporter at the Stockbridge: Greenfeld, “For Simon & garfunkel All Is groovy.”

In the recording studio: Morgan Ames, “Simon & Garfunkel in Action,”
High Fidelity
, November 1967, p. 63; Greenfeld, “For Simon & Garfunkel All Is Groovy.”

“It's no good”: Ames, “Simon & Garfunkel in Action.”

“Almost as if it's not there”: Ibid.

When bassist Bill Crow: Author e-mail interview with Bill Crow, March 24, 2014.

Looking for a mod new sound: Ibid.; author interview with John Simon, September 16, 2014.

“They were concerned about”: Clive Davis and James Willwerth,
Clive: Inside the Record Business
(New York: William Morrow and Co., 1974).

Davis knew it was coming: Author interview with Clive Davis.

“They are both college boys”: Letters from David Oppenheim to Boris Sedov, 1968, in the possession of New York University library.

Plus a Soviet intelligence agent: U.S. Department of State,
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976
, vol. 12,
Soviet Union
(January 1969–October 1970), doc. 1.

“two of the finest singers”: Kevin Kelly, “Simon and Garfunkel, Poets, Balladeers,”
Boston Globe
, January 30, 1968.

“Nobody is talking for this generation”: “Rock: What a Gas!”
Time
, April 19, 1968.

“It looks like somebody's lunch”: Recording of concert at Hollywood Bowl, August 23, 1968, in the possession of the author.

“There's been a change of identity”: Ibid.

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  SO LONG ALREADY, ARTIE

Nicols called Paul: Paul Simon interview with Craig Inciardi,
Paul Simon: Words & Music
, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's library, October 30, 2014.

Paul had plenty of other things: Author interviews with Mort Lewis, May 2013.

“I liked people”: Ibid.

“We're divorced”: Author interview with Hal Blaine, May 16, 2013.

“Little and poor”: Paul Simon original lyrics,
Paul Simon: Words & Music
, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's library, October 30, 2014.

“I am but a poor”: Ibid.

such a deliberately wounding way: Paul Simon interview with Tony Schwartz,
Playboy
.

How could Paul begrudge: Jon Landau, “Paul Simon: The Interview,”
Rolling Stone
, July 20, 1972.

He wrote letters telling Artie: Zollo, “Breakfast with Art Garfunkel.”

“dig-yourself competition”: Columbia Records publicity handout, January 1966.

Paul's determination was offset: Author interview with Mort Lewis.

“We had to postpone the concert”: Ibid.

His friends in England: Author interview with Keith Altham.

Before he started work: Ben Fong-Torres, “Hello Darkness, My Old Friend,”
Rolling Stone
, February 7, 1971.

“When Al Kooper had played Paul”: Author interview with Al Kooper.

The first time Paul heard: Chris Ingham, “Paul Simon: Still Crazy?,”
MOJO
, November 2000.

as if Jeter's voice: Paul Simon interview with Craig Inciardi, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's library.

“I was the first person”: Author interview with Al Kooper.

“It
is
a great song”: Zollo, “Breakfast with Art Garfunkel.”

To make sure they'd have: Author interview with Marshall Chess, February 10, 2016.

“You can't take the writer's notes”: Zollo, “Breakfast with Art Garfunkel.”

“When you're in the harmony game”:
Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America
, dir. Charles Grodin, CBS, November 30, 1969.

The crowning moment: Frank Zappa,
The Real Frank Zappa Book
(New York: Poseidon Press, 1989); “Simon and Garfunkle on WFUV,”
For What It's Worth
(blog), July 4, 2011,
christopherfountain.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/simon-and-garfunkle-on-wfuv/
.

When they played college shows: “Folk Duo, Students, Talk Pot and the Police,”
Wichita State University Sunflower
, November 4, 1969.

“humanistic approach”: Charles Grodin,
It Would Be So Nice If You Weren't Here
(New York: William Morrow and Co., 1989).

When Paul, Artie, and Grodin refused: Loraine Alterman, “Paul Simon: The
Rolling Stone
Interview,”
Rolling Stone
, May 28, 1970.

“The chaos of what the hell”:
Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America
.

“We're staying in the Beverly Hills”: Ibid.

“When Paul came in”: Jon Landau, “Paul Simon: The Interview.”

When they previewed the finished album: Author interview with Clive Davis.

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  I'D RATHER BE

When he was in Rome: Paul Simon interview with Tony Schwartz,
Playboy
.

“I'm really only interested in movies”: Ibid.

“he really made me”: Ibid.

Performing on a pleasant summer: Audience recording, Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Forest Hills, NY, July 18, 1970, in the possession of the author.

“We'd have to stop our friendship”: Royston Eldridge, “What Friendship Means to Simon & Garfunkel,”
Melody Maker
, June 7, 1969.

“We'll always come back”: Alterman, “Paul Simon: The
Rolling Stone
Interview.”

“We could easily do [a new tour]”: Ibid.

Paul committed to playing: David Browne,
Fire and Rain
(Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2011).

It was not a crowd: Ibid.

“Did you see that?”: Author interview with Hal Blaine.

He started seeing a therapist: Alterman, “Paul Simon: The
Rolling Stone
Interview.”

Paul had gotten in touch: Author interview with Jeffrey Sweet, October 2, 2014; author interview with Melissa Manchester, December 13, 2014; Terre Roche,
Blabbermouth
(New York: Terre Roche, 2013).

“Part of the learning process”: Heather Winett, “An Interview with Paul Simon,”
Washington Square Journal
(April 13, 1970).

“laughing lagoons”: Roche,
Blabbermouth
.

“Just steal them”: Winett, “An Interview with Paul Simon.”

Paul was particularly struck by the Roche sisters: Ibid.

Did she think she was as good: Roche,
Blabbermouth
.

“My sense was that he was searching”: Author interview with Melissa Manchester.

“You can't just sit here”: Author interviews with Mike Tannen, 2013–2016.

“Well, that's the biggest mistake”: Author interview with Clive Davis; Davis and Willwerth,
Clive: Inside the Record Business.

“I did try to reason with him”: Author interview with Clive Davis.

At first Paul thought about forming: Author interview with Stefan Grossman, December 5, 2014.

“I've gotten nowhere”: Fong-Torres, “Hello Darkness, My Old Friend.”

“Partly I'm looking forward to it”: Ibid.

Paul got in touch with Leslie Kong: John Sebastian, “A Conversation with Paul Simon
,
”
Radio Today Entertainment
, January 30, 1991; Paul Simon interview with Jerry Gilbert,
Sounds
, 1973.

Yet when he got to Kingston: Paul Simon interview with Inciardi.

He spent ten days in San Francisco: Author interview with Stefan Grossman.

“He paid for everything”: Ibid.

“Cut me open”: Fong-Torres, “Arthur Garfunkel: The
Rolling Stone
Interview.”

“Anybody who knows anything”: Jon Landau, “Paul Simon: The Interview.”

“At a certain point it became very hard”: Ibid.

“As I stand right now I have no partnership”: Ibid.

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  THAT'S IT, THAT'S THAT GROOVE

“And in effect begin”: Paul Simon, affidavit in Paul Simon, Charing Cross Music, Inc., and CBS Records v. Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York, 1972.

“I think you're the best”: Author interviews with Mike Tannen, 2013–2016.

The company's first clients were Maggie and Terre: Roche,
Blabbermouth
.

“Paul Simon and Michael Tannen gave us”: Ibid.

“a student's fantasy”: Sandra Shevey, “Simon Says: Pop Singer Paul Simon Talks About Women, Psychoanalysis, Being Short and Life Without Art Garfunkel,”
Chicago Tribune
, May 7, 1972.

208“The whole white male myth”: Ibid.

The new songs were upbeat: Author interview with David Hood, July 5, 2013.

Not entirely sure they were speaking: Interview with Barry Beckett,
Paul Simon Songbook
, BBC Radio, 1991.

“And I'm Artie Garfunkel!”: Author interview with David Hood.

“He wants to go”: Interview with Barry Beckett,
Paul Simon Songbook
, BBC Radio.

He went back to the notebook: Author interview with David Hood, July 5, 2013; author interview with Richard Blakin, June 13, 2014; author interview with Paul Samwell-Smith, May 1, 2014.

“I think he thought”: Author interview with David Hood.

“The joint custody arrangement”: Paul Simon interview with Paul Cowan, “The Odysseus of Urban Melancholy,”
Rolling Stone
, July 1, 1976.

“You pull up in front of a place”: Ibid.

Paul called Phil Ramone: Author interview with Chuck Israels; interview with Phil Ramone,
Paul Simon Songbook
, BBC Radio, 1991.

“Generally I can hold my own”: Author interview with Chuck Israels.

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  THROUGH NO FAULT OF MY OWN

“Paul always gives you”: Fong-Torres, “Arthur Garfunkel: The
Rolling Stone
Interview.”

heard Paul play it in an earlier form: Chris Charlesworth, “Art Garfunkel: Art for Art's Sake,”
Melody Maker
, October 1975.

Some days, he glided the streets: Cowan, “The Odysseus of Urban Melancholy.”

“The record companies couldn't agree”: Wayne Robbins, “Simon & Garfunkel Reunite: It's Paul, but Is It Art?”
Rolling Stone
, December 18, 1975.

“Isn't it nice to win”: White, “Public Pitches and Stolen Moments with Pinin' Simon.”

“slick professionalism”: Paul Nelson, “Pinin' Simon: Still Slick After All These Years,”
Rolling Stone
, December 4, 1975.

when Aykroyd recalled seeing: Dan Aykroyd interview with Terri Gross,
Fresh Air,
NPR, November 22, 2004.

“It's hard to get Paul to laugh”: Ibid.

“the folk-singing wimp”: Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad,
Saturday Night: A Backstage History
(New York: William Morrow and Company, 1986).

make sure his bald spot wasn't too visible: Ibid.

“I'd still like to do some more stuff with Artie”: Lynn Van Matre, “The Pen Is Mightier Than the Stage to Songsmith Simon,”
Chicago Tribune
, November 9, 1975.

“I can't go back”: Maureen Orth, “Simon Says,”
Newsweek
, December 15 1975.

“The hostilities started when Paul”: Author interview with Clive Davis; author interviews with Mike Tannen; Frederic Dannen,
Hit Men: Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business
(New York: Crown, 1990).

The arrogant little putz: Walter Yetnikoff,
Howling at the Moon: The Odyssey of a Monstrous Music Mogul in an Age of Excess
(New York: Broadway Books, 2004), p. 92.

“I didn't like the guy”: Ibid.

“War clouds were rolling in”: Ibid.

“How dare you assume”: Author interviews with Mike Tannen.

Paul owed CBS one more studio album: Yetnikoff,
Howling at the Moon
, pp. 96–98.

reach a settlement: Dannen,
Hit Men
, p. 125.

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  SWALLOWED BY A SONG

“His ego didn't get in the way”: Jim Jerome, “Still Creative After All These Years,”
People
, November 30, 1980.