Paul Simon : The Life

'There's no tougher a mind no more tender a voice than Paul Simon and there's no better man than Robert Hilburn to decipher the hardwiring of this hyperintellect...great songs can never be fully explained but the great man on his way to find those songs surely can.' - Bono Through such hits as 'The Sound of Silence' 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' 'Still Crazy After All These Years' and 'Graceland' Paul Simon has spoken to us in songs for a half-century about alienation doubt survival and faith in ways that have established him as one of the most honoured and beloved songwriters in American pop music history. Yet Simon has refused to talk to potential biographers and urged those close to him to also remain silent. But Simon not only agreed to talk to biographer Robert Hilburn for what has amounted to more than sixty hours he also encouraged his family and friends to sit down for in-depth interviews.