Simon, That was my Name (Stories of Simon Book 1)

I wish I had the opportunity to work with them. If more people would meet them, I think that their stands on life could be effected and possibly change the hearts of those needing change. If before you were born, I could have gone to heaven and saw all the beautiful souls, I still would have chosen you Simon. Of course, even though I would have chosen you, I know it was God who chose me for you Simon. My name is Joanna and I am from Poland. I came across your book on Kindle and read it. Then I looked up your website. He is absolutely beautiful. And what a fighter!

Thank you for writing your book. What a love story. What a beautiful family you have. What a wonderful mother you are. It was absolutely shocking to read about the eugenic mentality of some health care providers. I never realized it was that bad. You are a hero. Thank you again for your witness and all that you have been doing for other children and parents. And, most of all, thank you for bringing Simon to this world.

You have a great advocate in Heaven now and you will be reunited one day, and will stay together forever. I hope to meet Simon in Heaven one day myself. It will be an honor. I had no idea, this existed. I lost a T18 baby so this is a cause near and dear to my heart. I want to know the name of the hosptal, I want to steer clear of it. Thank you for telling your story. Our t18 baby Reagan taught us so much about special needs and is our guardian angel. She prepared us for the special needs our wonderful alive children do have.

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Thank you thank you for sharing. This tiny little excerpt is gut-wrenching! I think if I read the book, it would take a whole, fresh box of tissues to get through to the end. What it says is true and real though! You are commenting using your WordPress. He was a nice guy. He didn't play with me as much as I played with my kids. He was at work until late at night. Sometimes [until] two in the morning. Simon's musical career began after meeting Art Garfunkel when they were both They performed in a production of Alice in Wonderland for their sixth-grade graduation, and began singing together when they were 13, [19] occasionally performing at school dances.

Their idols were the Everly Brothers , whom they imitated in their use of close two-part harmony. Simon also developed an interest in jazz, folk, and blues, especially in the music of Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly. Simon's first song written for himself and Garfunkel, when Simon was 12 or 13, was called "The Girl for Me," and according to Simon became the "neighborhood hit.

That paper became the first officially copyrighted Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel song, and is now in the Library of Congress. The single reached No. Most of the songs Simon recorded during that time were performed alone or with musicians other than Garfunkel. Simon enjoyed some moderate success in recording a few singles as part of a group called Tico and the Triumphs , including a song called "Motorcycle" that reached No.

Tico and the Triumphs released four 45s.

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Marty Cooper, known as Tico, sang lead on several of these releases, but not on "Motorcycle", which featured Simon's vocal. That same year, Simon also reached No. In early , Simon and Garfunkel got an audition with Columbia Records , whose executive Clive Davis was impressed enough to sign the duo to a contract to produce an album. The album initially flopped.

Simon also contributed to the Seekers' catalogue with "Someday One Day", which was released in March , charting around the same time as Simon and Garfunkel's " Homeward Bound " a Top 10 hit from their second U. The song's success drew Simon back to the United States to reunite with Garfunkel. Together they recorded four more albums: While writing " Mrs. Robinson ", Simon originally toyed with the title "Mrs. When Garfunkel reported this indecision over the song's name to the director, Nichols replied, "Don't be ridiculous! We're making a movie here!

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Simon and Garfunkel returned to the UK in the fall of and did a church concert appearance at Kraft Hall, which was broadcast on the BBC, and also featured Paul's brother Ed on a performance of the instrumental "Anji". Simon pursued solo projects after Bridge over Troubled Water , reuniting occasionally with Garfunkel for various projects, such as their Top Ten single " My Little Town ". Simon wrote it for Garfunkel, whose solo output Simon judged to be lacking "bite". Contrary to popular belief, the song is not autobiographical of Simon's early life in New York City.

In , they reunited again for the famous concert in Central Park , followed by a world tour and an aborted reunion album, to have been entitled Think Too Much , which was eventually released without Garfunkel as Hearts and Bones. Together, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in This reunion led to a US tour—the acclaimed "Old Friends" concert series—followed by a international encore that culminated in a free concert at the Colosseum in Rome that drew , people. After Simon and Garfunkel split in , Simon began writing and recording solo material again.

His album Paul Simon was released in January , preceded by his first experiment with world music, the Jamaican-inspired " Mother and Child Reunion ". The single was a hit, reaching both the American and British Top 5. The album received universal acclaim, with critics praising the variety of styles and the confessional lyrics, reaching No.

It contained some of his most popular and polished recordings. The lead single, " Kodachrome ," was a No. Other songs like the weary " American Tune " or the melancholic "Something So Right" — a tribute to Simon's first wife, Peggy, which received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Song of the Year — became standards in the musician's catalog. Critical and commercial reception for this second album was even stronger than for his debut. At the time, reviewers noted how the songs were fresh and unworried on the surface, while still exploring socially and politically conscious themes on a deeper level.

As a souvenir for the tour that came next, in it was released as a live album, Live Rhymin' , which was moderately successful and displayed some changes in Simon's music style, adopting world and religious music. Released in October and produced by Simon and Phil Ramone , it marked another departure. The mood of the album was darker, as he wrote and recorded it in the wake of his divorce. With Simon in the forefront of popular music, the third single from the album, " 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover " reached the top spot of the Billboard charts, his only single to reach No.

After three successful studio albums, Simon became less productive during the second half of the s. He dabbled in various projects, including writing music for the film Shampoo , which became the music for the song "Silent Eyes" on the Still Crazy album, and acting he was cast as Tony Lacey in Woody Allen 's film Annie Hall. He achieved another hit in this decade, with the lead single of his compilation, Greatest Hits, Etc.

Records and his first in almost five years. It was paired with the motion picture of the same name , which Simon wrote and starred in. Although it produced his last Top 10 hit with the upbeat "Late in the Evening" also a No. Simon released Hearts and Bones in This was a polished and confessional album that was eventually viewed as one of his best works, but the album did not sell well when it was released. This marked a low point in Simon's commercial popularity; both the album and the lead single, "Allergies," missed the American Top As he commented years later, after the disappointing commercial performance of Hearts and Bones, Simon felt he had lost his inspiration to a point of no return, and that his commercial fortunes were unlikely to change.

While driving his car in late in this state of frustration, Simon listened to a cassette of the Boyoyo Boys' instrumental "Gumboots: Accordion Jive Volume II" which had been lent to him by Heidi Berg, a singer songwriter he was working with at the time.

Interested by the unusual sound, he wrote lyrics to the number, which he sang over a re-recording of the song. It was the first composition of a new musical project that became the Grammy-award-winning album Graceland , a mixture of musical styles including pop , a cappella , isicathamiya , rock , zydeco and mbaqanga. Simon travelled to South Africa to embark on further recording the album.

Sessions with African musicians took place in Johannesburg in February Overdubbing and additional recording was done in April , in New York. Boycott list but was removed after he indicated that he had not violated the cultural boycott. Records had serious doubts about releasing such an eclectic album to the mainstream, [ citation needed ] but did so in August Graceland was praised by critics and the public, and became Simon's most successful solo album.

Slowly climbing the worldwide charts, it reached 1 in many countries, including the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—and peaked at 3 in the U. It was the second-best-selling album of in the US, selling five million copies and eventually reaching 5x Platinum certification. Another seven million copies sold internationally, making it his best-selling album. The lead single was " You Can Call Me Al ," utilising a synthesizer riff played by Rob Mounsey, who also arranged the horn part with no credit, a whistle solo, and an unusual bass run, in which the second half was a reversed recording of the first half.

The single reached UK Top 5 and the U. Further singles, including the lead track, "The Boy in the Bubble" and "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes," were not commercial hits but became radio standards and were highly praised. At age 45, Simon found himself back at the forefront of popular music. He also embarked on the very successful Graceland Tour , which was documented on music video.

One way or another, Warner Bros. Records who by this time controlled and reissued all his previous Columbia albums re-established Simon as one of their most successful artists. In an attempt to capitalize on his renewed success, WB Records released the album Negotiations and Love Songs in November , a mixture of popular hits and personal favorites that covered Simon's entire career and became an enduring seller in his catalog. Cale and many Brazilian and African musicians.

The tone of the album was more introspective and relatively low-key compared to the mostly upbeat numbers of Graceland. Released in October , the album received excellent critical reviews and achieved very respectable sales, peaking at 4 in the U. Although not as successful as Graceland , The Rhythm of the Saints was received as a competent successor and consistent complement on Simon's attempts to explore and popularize world music, and also received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year.

It's one of several she claimed, followed by the line, "If you can get Paul Simon to write a song about you, do it. Because he is so brilliant at it. The success of both albums allowed Simon to stage another New York concert. On August 15, , almost a decade after his concert with Garfunkel, Simon staged a second concert in Central Park with African and South American bands. The success of the concert surpassed all expectations, and reportedly over , people attended—one of the largest concert audiences in history.

He later remembered the concert as, " In the middle, Simon embarked on the successful Born at the Right Time Tour , and promoted the album with further singles, including "Proof"—accompanied with a humorous video that again featured Chevy Chase, and added Steve Martin. On March 4, , he appeared on his own episode of MTV Unplugged , offering renditions of many of his most famous compositions.

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Broadcast in June, the show was a success, though it did not receive an album release. After Unplugged , Simon's place in the forefront of popular music dropped notably. In he made news for appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show , where he performed the song "Ten Years," which he composed specially for the tenth anniversary of the show. Also that year, he was featured on the Annie Lennox version of his song "Something So Right," which appeared briefly on the UK Top 50 once it was released as a single in November.

Since the early stages of the nineties, Simon was fully involved on The Capeman , a musical that finally opened on January 29, Simon worked enthusiastically on the project for many years and described it as "a New York Puerto Rican story based on events that happened in —events that I remembered. Simon recorded an album of songs from the show, which was released in November It was received with very mixed reviews, though many critics praised the combination of doo-wop , rockabilly and Caribbean music that the album reflected. In commercial terms, Songs from The Capeman was a failure—it found Simon missing the Top 40 of the Billboard charts for the first time in his career.

The cast album was never released on CD but eventually became available online. After the disaster of The Capeman , Simon's career was again in an unexpected crisis. However, entering the new millennium, he maintained a respectable reputation, offering critically acclaimed new material and receiving commercial attention.

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In , Simon embarked on a North American tour with Bob Dylan , where each alternated as headline act with a "middle" section where they performed together, starting on the first of June and ending September The collaboration was generally well-received, with just one critic, Seth Rogovoy from the Berkshire Eagle , questioning the collaboration. In an attempt to return successfully to the music market, Simon wrote and recorded a new album very quickly, with You're the One arriving in October The album consisted mostly of folk-pop writing combined with foreign musical sounds, particularly grooves from North Africa.

The story of the Jews is one that can indeed be told. How, though, are "Jews" to be defined: Jews first become Jews, in Schama's telling of their story, by a feat of willpower. Tradition generates its own backstory, which then takes on the cast of reality. Inevitably, then, self-definition was something that the Jews of antiquity could never take for granted.

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Recent scholarship has emphasised just how subjective their identity was. The Jews of Elephantine, who cheerfully married out and even maintained their own temple, are only the first of a number of examples that Schama gives us to illustrate this. For every Jew who affirmed a narrow interpretation of what it meant to be Jewish, there were others busy exercising in gymnasia or commissioning flamboyant mosaics. By the middle ages, all this had changed. The temple was gone; Jerusalem was ruled by rival monotheists; Judaea had become Palestine.

Yet though the Jews no longer had a homeland, and lived instead, as Schama puts it, "the wide world over", their identity had become something far more rigidly circumscribed than it ever was in antiquity. The law which governed their lives, and was simultaneously religious, cultural and political in nature, now served to define them as a people set definitively apart. The only option was to convert to Christianity or Islam — there was nowhere else to go.