PAUL SIMON – NEGOTIATIONS AND LOVE SONGS 2LP – Nr MINT 1988

Paul Simon – Negotiations And Love Songs
(Warner Bros Records  1988  WX223)

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Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American musician and singer-songwriter. Simon’s fame, influence, and commercial success began as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, formed in 1964 with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair’s songs, including three that reached No. 1 on the U.S. singles charts: “The Sound of Silence”, “Mrs. Robinson”, and “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. The duo split up in 1970 at the height of their popularity, and Simon began a successful solo career as a guitarist and singer-songwriter, recording three highly acclaimed albums over the next five years. In 1986, he released Graceland, an album inspired by South African township music. Simon also wrote and starred in the film One-Trick Pony (1980) and co-wrote the Broadway musical The Capeman (1998) with the poet Derek Walcott.

Simon has earned 12 Grammys for his solo and collaborative work, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2001, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2006 was selected as one of the “100 People Who Shaped the World” by Time magazine. Among many other honors, Simon was the first recipient of the Library of Congress’s Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in 2007. In 1986 Simon was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music where he currently serves on the Board of Trustees.

Negotiations and Love Songs is a collection of Paul Simon’s songs from 1971-1986. The title of the compilation is taken from a line in the song “Train in the Distance”.

Track listing

Notably for a compilation album, the tracks are grouped in the chronological order of their original source.

All songs composed by Paul Simon, except “Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes” co-written by Joseph Shabalala.