Paul Simon The Life 10 CD Audiobook Approx 12 Hours 2018 Dennis Boutsakaris

Paul Simon—The Life

by Robert Hilburn

read by Dennis Boutsikaris

2018 Simon & Shuster

Audiobook, 10 CDs

Running Time: Approx. 12 hours 

A publishing event from music legend Paul Simon: an intimate, candid, and definitive biography written with Simon's full participation - but without his editorial control - by acclaimed biographer and music writer Robert Hilburn.

For more than 50 years, Paul Simon has spoken to us in songs that have established him as one of the most beloved artists in American pop music history: songs like 'The Sound of Silence', 'Bridge Over Troubled Water',

'After All These Years', and 'Graceland' have moved beyond the sales charts and into our cultural consciousness.

But, Simon is a deeply private person who has resisted speaking to us outside of his music. He has said he will not write an autobiogaphy or memoir, and he has refused to talk to previous biographers.

Finally, Simon has opened up for more

than one hundred hours of interviews - to Robert Hilburn, whose biography of Johnny Cash was named by Michiko

Kakutani of the New York Times as one of her ten favorite books of 2013. The result is a landmark book that will take its place as the defining biography of one of America's greatest artists.

It begins in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, where, raised by a bandleader father and schoolteacher mother, Simon grew up with the twin passions of baseball and music. The latter took over at age 12 when he and schoolboy chum Art Garfunkel became infatuated with the alluring harmonics of doo-wop.

Together, they became international icons, and then Simon went on to even greater artistic heights on his own. But beneath the surface of his storied five-decade career is a rollercoaster of tumultuous personal and professional ups and downs.

Over the past three years, Hilburn has conducted in-depth interviews with scores of Paul Simon's friends, family,

colleagues, and others-including ex-wives Carrie Fisher and Peggy Harper, who spoke for the first time and even penetrated the inner circle of Simon's long-reclusive muse Kathy Chitty.

The result is a deeply human account of the challenges and sacrifices of a life in music at the highest level. In the process, Hilburn documents Simon's scarch for artistry and his constant struggle to protect that artistry against distractions, marriage, divorce, drugs, rccord company interference, rejection, and insecurity - that have derailed so many great pop figures.

Paul Simon is an intimate and inspiring narrative that helps us finally understand Paul Simon, the person and the artist.

ROBERT HILBURN was the chief pop music critic for the Los Angeles Times for more than three decades. Author of the bestselling biography Johnny Cash: The Life, Hilburn has reported

extensively on most of pop music's giants, including Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, and U2. He lives in Los Angeles.

Two-time Obie Award winner DENNIS BOUTSIKARIS has appeared in

the films The Borne Legacy, W., The Dream Team, and * batteries not included. He portrays Richard Schweikart on AMC's Better Call Saul and has received five Audio Awards and twelve Golden Earphone Awards for his work on over 140 audiobooks, ranging from Philip Roth to Stephen King. His narration of Walter Isaacson's The Innovators was chosen as Amazon's 2014 Audiobook

of the year.

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