McCartney Times

Paul Simon has never been one to mince words about the music that he liked. Even at the expense of his own catalogue, Simon was known to be particularly merciless when it came to certain songs, even saying that a handful of his songs weren’t exactly what they were meant to be. Although Simon had an axe to grind with many flawed songs, he thought that one of the greatest songwriters of his generation had a few issues with one of his classics.Before Simon started making his own classics, though, he was still honing his craft as the duo Tom and Jerry with Art Garfunkel. Taking the sounds of traditional folk and putting a slight rock and roll twist on it, most of the band’s output fell on deaf ears before they hit upon ‘The Sound of Silence’. Featuring a disquieting outlook on the world, Simon had created one of the anthems of the 1960s, only for it to be forgotten until it got a rock and roll makeover.

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Source: The John Lennon song Paul Simon called “a poor record”