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Paul Simon Closes Out Farewell Tour With Euphoric Hometown Show

By Andy Greene

Andy Greene

Two songs into his set at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on the final stop of his Homeward Bound Farewell Tour , Paul Simon  put down his guitar and put on a black baseball glove. “This is like two miles from where I played high school baseball,” he said. “It’s little dark out, but you know what? I’m going to play a quick game of catch.” He then lobbed the ball into the New York crowd and urged whoever caught it to throw it back. It took three attempts, but he eventually found a fan capable of hurtling it right into his glove with a satisfying smack. The crowd cheered with delight at the moment of impact and Simon let out a smile big enough to be seen from about 1,000 feet back.

It was a typically joyous moment on what could have otherwise been a pretty melancholy affair. After all, everyone there was watching one of New York’s greatest songwriters play the last stop of his last tour. But instead of turning it into an evening of sad reflection about the cruel passage of time, Simon – just a few weeks away from his 77th birthday – turned it into a party in the park where complete strangers could groove together to “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes,” harmonize on the “lie la lie” chorus of “The Boxer” and jump up and down while screaming out every word to “You Can Call Me Al.” At almost no point in the night did Simon even hint at the fact that it was the end of his last tour, even if his eyes looked a little misty near the end of “Homeward Bound.”

Like every show on this tour, it began with a rearranged rendition of Simon & Garfunkel’s classic “America.” It’s a durable song that has managed to work in everything from David Bowie’s set at the post-9/11 Concert For New York City  to a 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign commercial. And now in the Trump era, the “empty and aching” kid on the bus seemed to be speaking for many Americans. The president’s name was never uttered, but after a haunting “American Tune” near the end of the night Simon said, “Strange times, huh? Don’t…Give…Up.”

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“America” went right into “50 Ways To Leave Your Lover,” “The Boy in the Bubble” and “Dazzling Blue” from his 2011 overlooked triumph So Beautiful or So What. It set the stage for an evening where he toggled between his greatest hits and album cuts only familiar to the true devotees. “Most of these songs that I’m going to play tonight I think you’ll be familiar with, maybe a few you’ll be less so,” he said early on. “But the rhythm tunes are all written with the idea you’ll get up and dance.”

They certainly did dance, especially when he kicked into the opening chords of “Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard” and everyone had the unique chance to sing about “Rosie the Queen of Corona” in Corona. His wife Edie Brickell even came out to deliver the famous whistle solo with impressive skill. The mood then quieted down when the chamber ensemble yMusic came to the front of the stage to accompany Simon on “Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War,” a fantastically obscure Hearts and Bones song that he’s resurrected on his new album In the Blue Light . That album was a commercial dud in 1983, but time has been very kind to it.

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“I have a strange relationship to this next song,” Simon said. “I wrote it a long time ago and when I finished it I said to myself, ‘Hmm, that’s better than I usually do.’ Then I gave it away and I didn’t sing it for a long time, though occasionally I’d try it on tours, though I never actually felt like it was mine since the original versions are so unique. But this being the final tour, I’m going to be playing my lost child.”

He was talking about “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and when he says “gave it away” he means that he let Art Garfunkel sing lead on it. That was the only time he came close to acknowledging his estranged singing partner the entire evening, though his image did briefly appear a few times during a photo montage paired with “Homeward Bound.” Garfunkel booked his own show in Rochester, Minnesota this very night, completely ruling out the slim possibility they were going to come together for the encores. But even though living up to the Garfunkel original is a very difficult task, Paul’s stripped-down arrangement was still quite lovely and one of the high points of the evening, especially when a Spirit Airlines jet flew right over the crowd en route to Laguardia right as he began the climactic “sail on silver girl” verse.

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As the clock began ticking to the end of the night, the magnitude of the event began sinking in even though Simon was doing his best not to acknowledge it. Joyful songs like “Late in the Evening” and “Kodachrome” were infused with an unusual sense of sorrow, and the crowd came to a stunned hush during a devastating “The Sounds of Silence” that wrapped up the night. He wrote that song 55 years ago in the bathroom of his childhood home and it became Simon & Garfunkel’s breakthrough hit in 1965. And now the whole saga of his life was coming full circle as he sang it for possibly the last time. He didn’t need to explain any of this to the crowd. We could all feel it.

We’ll never know what the show meant to Paul Simon, but hopefully it doesn’t mean that he’s now completely retired. Hopefully it means he’s going to keep recording new music and playing the occasional show. Hopefully it means we have years and years of new Paul Simon music in front of us. But if that’s not the case and he’s truly done, he couldn’t have possibly scripted a better ending than this one.

He put down his guitar when “The Sounds of Silence” ended and looked out at the sea of people in the audience, soaking in their love one last time. He then raised his arms in triumph and stepped up to the mic to deliver just seven words before walking off: “It means more than you can know.”

Paul Simon Setlist

America 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover The Boy in the Bubble Dazzling Blue That Was Your Mother Rewrite Mother and Child Reunion Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (with Edie Brickell) Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War Can’t Run But Bridge Over Troubled Water Wristband Spirit Voices The Obvious Child Questions for the Angels The Cool, Cool River Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes You Can Call Me Al

Encore: Late in the Evening Still Crazy After All These Years Graceland

Encore 2: Homeward Bound Kodachrome The Boxer American Tune The Sound of Silence

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Paul Simon Says Goodbye in Farewell Hometown Gig

Paul Simon concluded his Homeward Bound: The Farewell Tour last night (Sept. 22) by, fittingly, going home. The show took place in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, in Flushing, Queens, N.Y., just across the Grand Central Parkway from the neighborhood of Forest Hills, where he grew up.

"It seems more like fate than coincidence that I should do the final show on this final tour at Flushing Meadows Corona Park," Simon said when this date was announced. "I could have ridden my bike from home to the park in about 20 minutes, when I was a kid. ... But this is less a goodbye than a farewell. Thank you all for the ride, I had a great time."

The set opened with the cinematic "America," and concluded with the song that kicked off his career, " The Sound of Silence ," his 1965 No. 1 hit as one-half of Simon & Garfunkel .  Simon was in good spirits despite the heavy emotions of the evening, dedicating his anti-establishment track “Kodachrome” to his nearby school and saying, “Yeah, take that Forest Hills High School” – although he added, “Actually, I had a good time there.” When some fireworks exploded in the distance as he explained the background to “Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War,” he said, “Could you hold up the fireworks? I’m trying to tell a story about Rene Magritte.”

He took the opportunity to play “a quick game of catch,” offering three audience members the chance to throw a ball at him, managing to catch the final attempt. Then, at the end of his second encore, he bowed out telling the crowd their response “means more than you can know.”

He announced the tour back in February with a leg that concluded in June, and followed it up shortly thereafter by revealing 11 more shows for September. “I’ve often wondered what it would feel like to reach the point where I'd consider bringing my performing career to a natural end," he said in a statement. "Now I know: It feels a little unsettling, a touch exhilarating and something of a relief. ... Mostly, though, I feel the travel and time away from my wife and family takes a toll that detracts from the joy of playing."

Although Simon is giving up touring, he won't entirely stop performing. "I anticipate doing the occasional performance in a (hopefully) acoustically pristine hall," he continued, "and to donate those earnings to various philanthropic organizations, particularly those whose objective is to save the planet, ecologically."

Paul Simon, Sept. 22, 2018, Flushing, N.Y., Set List

1. "America" 2. "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" 3. "The Boy in the Bubble" 4. "Dazzling Blue" 5. "That Was Your Mother" 6. "Rewrite" 7. "Mother and Child Reunion" 8. "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" 9. "Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War" 10. "Can't Run But" 11. "Bridge Over Troubled Water" 12. "Wristband" 13. "Spirit Voices" 14. "The Obvious Child" 15."Questions for the Angels" 16. "The Cool, Cool River" 17. "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" 18. "You Can Call Me Al"

Encore 19. "Late in the Evening" 20. "Still Crazy After All These Years" 21. "Graceland"

Encore 2 22. "Homeward Bound" 23. "Kodachrome" 24. "The Boxer" 25. "American Tune" 26. "The Sound of Silence"

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24 September 2018, 11:14

By Tom Eames

The legendary singer-songwriter said goodbye to his fans at an emotional show at the weekend (September 22).

Paul Simon played his final ever concert in Queens, just a few minutes from where he grew up.

He ended his Homeward Bound farewell tour at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, playing 26 classic tracks that ended with two rousing encores.

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When explaining why he decided to play his final concert in Flushing, Simon said: “It feels more like fate than coincidence that I should do the final show on the final tour at Flushing Meadows Corona Park.”

He added: “I could have ridden my bike from home to the park in about 20 minutes when I was a kid. But this is less a goodbye than a farewell. Thank you all for the ride, I had a great time.”

Watch fan-filmed footage from the gig below:

View this post on Instagram The final performance on Paul Simon’s farewell tour! . . . . #theboxer #music #paulsimon #concert #NY #dance #jams #goodtimes #danceoff #squdgoals #youcancallmeal #queens #thesoundofsilence #liveinconcert #farewelltour #tour A post shared by Hillary K. (@hakaufma) on Sep 22, 2018 at 7:16pm PDT

Paul Simon - Graceland @ Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens NY 2018

Only cried 4 times at Paul Simon’s last show tonight. What a special night ❤️ pic.twitter.com/4mC5ODy19p — Candace Svoma (@canicallucandy) September 23, 2018

Paul Simon says goodbye in Queens. #PaulSimonFarewellTour pic.twitter.com/i6FnpFQYrA — Robert Levin (@Rlevin85) September 23, 2018

Paul Simon opened his final show with Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘America’, before playing some of his most beloved tracks including ‘The Boy in the Bubble’, ‘Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard’ and ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’.

The encore ended with various songs including ‘Graceland’, ‘The Boxer’ and ‘The Sound of Silence’.

The full setlist was:

America  50 Ways To Leave Your Lover The Boy in the Bubble Dazzling Blue That Was Your Mother Rewrite Mother and Child Reunion Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (with Edie Brickell) Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War (with yMusic) Can’t Run But (with yMusic) Bridge Over Troubled Water (with yMusic) Wristband Spirit Voices The Obvious Child Questions for the Angels The Cool, Cool River Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes You Can Call Me Al

Encore 1: Late in the Evening Still Crazy After All These Years Graceland

Encore 2: Homeward Bound   Kodachrome The Boxer   American Tune The Sound of Silence

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Review: Paul Simon, Still Evolving, Is Saying Goodbye

By Jon Pareles

• May 17, 2018

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Paul Simon couldn’t resist introducing some ambiguity to the first night of what he has billed as “Homeward Bound — the Farewell Tour,” at Rogers Arena here on Wednesday night. After singing “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” — itself a song about an ambivalent exit — he joked: “I lied about the final. I was just trying to raise the ticket prices.” Then he backtracked. “Yeah. This is it.” But he continued, “I don’t know what the ‘it’ is,” and went on to elaborate. “Is this about the final iteration of these songs? Is this, like, where I’m freezing them? I honestly don’t know what the thing is.”

As it stands, the tour will end with three shows in New York City in September: two at Madison Square Garden and the last one, on Sept. 22, at a location to be announced. Like Elton John (whose farewell tour is scheduled to persist into September 2019), Mr. Simon, 76, has announced an end only to his touring, not to making music or to performing. And with the opening show here in Vancouver, he was far more a curious musician than a self-congratulatory, self-repeating pop star.

His set of two dozen songs could all have been hits; he has more than enough. But Mr. Simon juxtaposed his own idiosyncratic favorites with his crowdpleasers, and he is still tweaking — or iterating — songs that he could easily have delivered as jukebox copies. He did keep enough landmarks to summon the pop pleasure of familiarity, like the “ta-na-na” singalong in “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” (which also played up the intertwined guitars of Biodun Kuti and Mark Stewart) and the pristine guitar introduction to “Homeward Bound” (which, suiting a farewell tour, featured a video montage of Mr. Simon’s half-century-plus career). Bakithi Kumalo, on bass, thumb-popped the solo that he played on the 1986 hit “You Can Call Me Al.”

But Mr. Simon still isn’t freezing his music. “The Boxer,” which always had a tinge of country, now hints openly at the sound of Johnny Cash’s the Tennessee Three. Mr. Simon is still an analytic listener to his own songs.

He is touring with 16 backup musicians, mingling the six-member chamber music ensemble yMusic with the rest of his own slowly gathered rock-pop-folk-jazz-world-music band. Their numbers and flexibility give Mr. Simon an instrumental arsenal that can include, as needed, a button accordion, a piccolo, a clay drum, a French horn, a prepared piano (with assorted objects placed on and between its strings) or a penny whistle. There’s a big video screen, but the tour’s real special effects are its arrangements and orchestrations. Mr. Simon gathered yMusic on its own to back him in radically reworked, brilliantly realized chamber-pop versions of “Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War” and “Can’t Run, But,” two deep-catalog songs.

Mr. Simon’s songwriting has long treated pop as a force of inclusion and adaptation, learning constantly from different idioms and discovering where they can overlap or coalesce. At times he has acted as a canny tourist of regional styles, hearing the pop potential of reggae in “Mother and Child Reunion” or paying direct homage to Louisiana zydeco in “That Was Your Mother.” But many more of his songs are hybrids with multiple, tangled, personalized sources — ones that he has scrambled further on tour through the years. “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” has evolved toward a New Orleans-flavored beat, and on Wednesday night the eerie, choppy syncopations of “The Cool, Cool River” led to a piano solo by Mick Rossi that splashed toward free jazz.

Mr. Simon, long known as a perfectionist, may have physical reasons to make this his last tour. His voice had scratchy moments as the concert began, though he did warm up along the way. By “That Was Your Mother,” he even had some zydeco-style dance steps. Opening night in Vancouver also had visual glitches that are likely to smooth out on the road. With a crowded stage, the video crew didn’t always point the camera at the player with the key part.

While Mr. Simon’s music pulls disparate ideas together, his songs’ narrators are often lonely and isolated, teetering between estrangement and a longing for connection, between hope for the next generation and intimations of doom. His prophetic “The Boy in the Bubble,” with its weighty Sotho-style African accordion riff, envisioned technological advances coupled with constant surveillance; the band lingered, in vocal harmony, over the phrase, “Don’t cry.” A toe-tapping song from 2011, “Rewrite,” sounds whimsical until the narrator reveals the parental trauma that destroyed his family.

Mr. Simon’s characters find refuge, often temporary, in marriage, spirituality and especially music. The full band’s final appearance was with “Late in the Evening,” a musician’s victory strut with an exultant extended groove. But Mr. Simon returned alone to praise the biologist Edward O. Wilson’s Half-Earth Project (and put on its baseball cap), trying to save the environment, and to sing “Questions for the Angels,” pondering the entire significance of human life. He chose (spoiler alert) to end the concert, still solo, with his despairing 1964 Simon and Garfunkel hit “The Sound of Silence.”

Most pop arena headliners tout togetherness, the unity of a shared good time. Mr. Simon, after all these years, wanted listeners to remember that they, too, might well have to go it alone. His final words were what, he said, was a Spanish saying: “We are not mountains. We will meet again.”

An earlier version of this review misstated the live performance history of two songs. Paul Simon has previously performed “Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War” and “Can’t Run, But” onstage. (Onstage at this concert, Mr. Simon introduced the songs saying he did not recall previously performing them live.)

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Paul Simon “Homeward Bound — the Farewell Tour” continues through Sept. 22 and is scheduled to end with three shows in New York City; paulsimon.com .

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Paul Simon Caps Off Farewell Tour With Final Show In Queens

Editor, HuffPost Australia

Paul Simon capped off his farewell tour with a final show in Queens, New York, on Saturday night before a crowd of more than 30,000 people .

Introduced by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio as one of the city’s greatest artists of all time , Simon’s 26-song set took fans on a journey through a musical career that has spanned more than 50 years .

Paul Simon says goodbye in Queens. #PaulSimonFarewellTour pic.twitter.com/i6FnpFQYrA — Robert Levin (@Rlevin85) September 23, 2018

Simon, 76, performed in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, a 20-minute bicycle ride from where he grew up. He stopped two songs into his set to play a quick game of catch with fans.

“This is like two miles from where I played high school baseball,” Simon said, according to Rolling Stone . “It’s little dark out, but you know what? I’m going to play a quick game of catch.”

here’s Paul Simon playing catch with someone in the crowd: pic.twitter.com/h8OU7Am4E8 — Oliviuh (@cortiseanplane) September 23, 2018

Fans cheered Simon as he wrapped up the night with a performance of “The Sound of Silence,” the song that catapulted Simon & Garfunkel to fame.

“It means more than you can know,” he said, stepping off the stage.

Paul Simon closes his last ever show with what else, but “The Sound Of Silence.” Every person around me was wiping away tears. Unforgettable moment. #PaulSimonFarewellTour — Will Oliver (@weallwantsome1) September 23, 2018

The very final bow - Paul Simon performed his last song “The Sound of Silence,” of course, at his last show ever, at Flushing Meadows Park in his native Queens, NY. — Naughty Gossip (@NaughtyNiceRob) September 23, 2018

While “Homeward Bound – The Farewell Tour” might be Simon’s last tour, the “You Can Call Me Al” singer has previously said that he won’t rule out “ the occasional performance in a (hopefully) acoustically pristine hall .”

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Paul Simon Confirms ‘Homeward Bound’ Farewell Tour: ‘I’d Like to Leave With a Big Thank You’

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame icon says in a statement that he's scared, exhilarated and relieved to be announcing his final tour.

By Gil Kaufman

Gil Kaufman

Paul Simon is going to bid his fans a fond farewell. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer announced on Monday morning (Feb. 5) that he has set the dates for what he is calling Homeward Bound – The Farewell Tour. 

The legendary 76-year-old singer-songwriter, known for such hits (both solo and as half of best-selling duo Simon & Garfunkel) as “The Sound of Silence,” “You Can Call Me Al” and “Bridge Over Troubled Water” wrote in a note to fans that he’s spent time considering his decision, and while he’s emotionally torn of it, now feels like the right time to bow out gracefully.

“I’ve often wondered what it would feel like to reach the point where I’d consider bringing my performing career to a natural end,” he said in the statement. “Now I know: it feels a little unsettling, a touch exhilarating and something of a relief. I love making music, my voice is still strong, and my band is a tight, extraordinary group of gifted musicians. I think about music constantly.” Simon goes on to note that his band recently lost their lead guitarist and friend of 30 years: Vincent N’guini, who passed in December.

“His loss is not the only reason I’ve decided to stop touring, but it is a contributing factor,” Simon explained. “Mostly, though, I feel the travel and time away from my wife and family takes a toll that detracts from the joy of playing.” 

Paul Simon Announces Final Show: 'Homeward Bound The Farewell Performance'

Last week, it was announced that Simon was hosting the final night of the Barclayard British Summer Time Festival on July 15 with special guests James Taylor & His All-Star Band and Bonnie Raitt in what was advertised as “Paul Simon: Homeward Bound The Farewell Performance.” It’s now clear that the U.K. date is part of a larger tour from Simon, which kicks off on May 16 with a show in Vancouver, will feature stops in Seattle, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Dallas, Chicago, Detroit and Boston, and is currently slated to wrap in Nashville on June 20.

Check out the dates below, and click here to read Simon’s full statement.

May 16 – Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena

May 18 – Seattle, WA @ Key Arena

May 19 – Portland, OR @ MODA Center

May 22 & 23 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl

May 25 – Oakland, CA @ Oracle Arena

May 27 – Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena

May 30 – Denver, CO @ Fiddler’s Green

June 1 – Dallas, TX @ American Airlines Arena

June 2 – Houston, TX @ Toyota Center

June 4 – Austin, TX @ Frank Erwin Center

June 6 – Chicago, IL @ United Center

June 8 – St. Paul, MN @ Xcel Energy Center

June 10 – Detroit, MI @ DTE Energy Center

June 12 – Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre

June 13 – Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre

June 15 – Boston, MA @ TD Garden

June 16 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wells Fargo Center

June 19 – Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro Coliseum

June 20 – Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone Arena 

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