“We close our eyes”: Andrew Goodman, “Corollary to a Poem by A. E. Housman,” Andrew Goodman: 1943–1964 (Long Island, NY: Peter F. Mallon Inc., 1964).

  “One of them is the song”: Paul Simon, “Chez/For Kathy,” record, autumn 1964.

  “I’ve already done the whole introduction”: Ibid.

  “So that was a bomb”: Tom Wilson interview, Paul Simon Songbook, BBC Radio 6, 1991.

  between Housewives’ Choice: Judith Piepe interview, Paul Simon Songbook, BBC Radio 6, 1991.

  Paul got a British publishing deal: Author interviews with Michael Tannen, 2013–2016; Victoria Kingston, Simon and Garfunkel: The Biography (New York: Doubleday, 1998), p. 29.

  “He was the favored child”: Author interview with Ariel Piepe Bruce, February 26, 2014.

  Along the way, she had traded: Ibid.

  “He was creating a package”: Author interview with Harvey Andrews, March 10, 2014.

  “He was very friendly”: Author interview with David Rugg, February 2014.

  “If I’m not a millionaire”: Geoff Speed quoted in J. P. Bean, Singing from the Floor (London: Faber & Faber, 2014), p. 176.

  Paul responded to the producer’s: Author e-mail interview with Melanie Ezekiel, winter 2014; Humphries, Paul Simon: Still Crazy.

  “Very American! He used to”: Paul Simmons, “Interview with Bert Jansch,” The Ptolemaic Terrascope Magazine, 1996.

  “He had a reputation”: Ralph McTell interview, Evening Standard (UK), July 14, 2004.

  He spent a third: Author interview with Stephen Bromfield, February 2014; Humphries, Paul Simon: Still Crazy; Kingston, Simon and Garfunkel.

  “I start with the knowledge”: Paul Simon liner notes, Paul Simon Songbook, CBS, 1965.

  “Who wrote this junk?”: Ibid.

  “Sorry, this guy is trying”: Melody Maker, July 24, 1965.

  “A small, dark, intense man”: “Two Views on Baez,” New Musical Express, July 30, 1965.

  “rehashed Ginsberg”: “The Great Dylan Row,” Melody Maker, October 5, 1965.

  “Typical brash Americans”: Author interview with Hans Fried, February 2014.

  “So you have the Byrds”: Simon and Garfunkel club show in London, September 1965, included in Paul Simon Songbook, BBC Radio 6, 1991.

  when Stan Kavan: “Col Relay System Puts ‘Silence’ Over,” Billboard, February 19, 1966; Jim Melanson, “Col/Epic ‘Q’ Product Gains Momentum,” Billboard, November 10, 1973.

  a very simple calculus: “Col Relay System Puts ‘Silence’ Over”; interviews with Tom Wilson and Mark Weiner, Paul Simon Songbook, BBC Radio.

  “I was mildly amused”: Zollo, “Breakfast with Art Garfunkel.”

  “No, more than sort of successful”: Paul Simon interview, iTunes Originals, September 6, 2006.

  What the fuck is that?: Author interview with Al Stewart, February 11, 2014.

  “So that’s when”: Ibid.

  “I don’t feel it”: Paul Simon interview from 1965, New Musical Express, August 10, 1968.

  I wasn’t violently against”: Jim Delehant, “Inside the Mind of Paul Simon,” Hit Parader, August 1967.

  In 2006, Paul described: Paul Simon interview, iTunes Originals.

  Paul spent the time: Ibid.

  “I said, ‘Shiiit’”: Ibid.

  “I remember this”: Ibid.

  “I’d rather not have a hit”: Author e-mails with Harry Knipschild, February 2014.

  10 ■ IT MEANS NOTHING TO US

  reigned at No.1: Paul Simon interview with Pete Fornatale, 1986.

  “You’ve really got a hit record”: Author interview with Ron Merenstein.

  “What’s the name of”: Author interview with Mort Lewis, 2013.

  “To Morty, I hope”: Ibid.

  “It’s that easy?”: Ibid.

  “To show people”: Zollo, “Breakfast with Art Garfunkel.”

  “Dylan or somebody would”: Author interview with Bob Johnston, June 2014.

  “rather intense, though hardly”: Columbia Records publicity handout, January 1966, in the possession of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s library.

  “How could this happen”: Ralph J. Gleason, “Then There Was ‘Silence’ with a Red Bullet,” This World, February 20, 1966.

  “to, and perhaps for”: Robert Shelton, “Folk-and-Pop Duo in Recital Debut,” New York Times, May 2, 1966.

  “Pop music is catching up”: Robert Shelton, “A Law Firm They’re Not,” New York Times, August 28, 1966.

  “Pop music is the most vibrant”: “Rock ’n’ Roll: The New Troubadours,” Time, October 28, 1966.

  “Their intellectual prowess”: Tracy Thomas, New Musical Express, April 8, 1966.

  “No matter how successful”: Ibid.

  “Do you know how much”: Keith Altham, “Now They All Want Paul Simon Songs!,” New Musical Express, April 22, 1966.

  “Sing!”: Bruce Woodley and Judith Durham, quoted, minus attribution, “Seeks on the Simon Sound Trail,” Melody Maker, April 23, 1966.

  “Paul Simon is getting”: Interview with Bruce Woodley, Melody Maker, January 29, 1966.

  “I haven’t had any real need”: Paul Simon interview, New Musical Express, August 10, 1968; Greenfeld, “For Simon & Garfunkel All Is Groovy.”

  “who used to be”: Simon and Garfunkel, live at Tufts University, March 11, 1967, recording in author’s collection.

  For all that British critics: Paul Simon interview with Timothy White, Goldmine, 2001.

  “What kind of image are”: Interview with Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, April 22, 1967.

  “I think it strange”: Altham, “Now They All Want Paul Simon Songs!”

  “Unfortunately, I’m always being”: Ibid.

  “A linebacker-size fellow”: Blair Jackson interview with Roy Halee, Mix Magazine, October 1, 2001.

  “People say I’m a dollar”: Penny Valentine, “Simon & Garfunkel: It’s a Lonely Life at the Top,” Disc, March 23, 1967.

  11 ■ SOME DREAM OF WHAT I MIGHT BE

  “I said, ‘Yeah’”: Stephen J. Dubner, “The Pop Perfectionist on a Crowded Stage,” New York Times Magazine, November 9, 1997.

  “That’s the only important”: Dubner, “The Pop Perfectionist.”

  “They’re not yelling at me”: Tracy Thomas, “Enter the Intellectual Simon & Garfunkel!” New Musical Express, April 18, 1966.

  “I don’t know how”: Jim Delahunt, “Inside the Mind of Paul Simon,” Hit Parader, August 1967.

  “The people who call you a poet”: Greenfeld, “For Simon & Garfunkel All Is Groovy.”

  “Simon and Garfunkel are fictitious”: Ibid.

  “He should have been”: Paul Hendrickson, “Paul Simon: Two for the Road; In Town on Tour with Garfunkel,” Washington Post, August 13, 1983.

  “Can you imagine girls”: Ibid.

  “It’s like the greatest put-on”: Greenfeld, “For Simon & Garfunkel All Is Groovy.”

  “Okay, you made all this money”: Dubner, “The Pop Perfectionist.”

  “My father,” he said: Ibid.

  “my many neuroses”: Simon and Garfunkel, live at Tufts University.

  “a cul de sac”: Greenfeld, “For Simon & Garfunkel All Is Groovy.”

  “Rock ’n’ roll for people”: Christgau, “Supreme Achievement.”

  “is neither a poet”: Jann Wenner, “Doin’ the Thing,” Daily Californian, Fall 1966.

  fifty thousand dollars seed money: Michael Lydon, “Where’s the Money from Monterey?,” Rolling Stone, November 9, 1967.

  The trip was a success: Joe Morella and Patricia Barey, Simon and Garfunkel: Old Friends, p. 65.

  Columbia president Goddard Lieberson: Author interview with John Simon, September 16, 2014.

  Hendrix … with whom he played a little: Paul Simon interview, Paul Simon Songbook, BBC Radio.

  “We’d like to introduce”: Monterey Pop, dir. D. A. Pennebaker, Leacock-Pennebaker Inc., London, 1968.

  “Ah, you dig the red lights”: Ibid.

  “Make sure to tell ’em!”: Author interview with Keith Altham, February 2, 2014.

  As reenvisioned by Mike Nichols: Sam Kashner, “Here’s to You, Mr. Nichols: The Making of the Graduate,” Vanity Fair, no. 571, March 2008.

  “Jewish inside”: Ibid.

  Nichols was born in Berlin: Bruce Weber, “Mike Nichols, Urbane Director Loved by Crowds and Critics Dies at 83,” New York Times, November 20, 2014.

  Paul and Artie were initially dubious: Kashner, “Here’s to You, Mr. Nichols.”

  they agreed to provide: Peter Bart, “The Back Lot,” Variety, May 16–25, 2005.

  At long last, a trickle: Kashner, “Here’s to You, Mr. Nichols”; Peter Bart, “The Back Lot.”

  Except for that there was: Zollo, “Breakfast with Art Garfunkel”; Kashner, “Here’s to You, Mr. Nichols; Peter Bart, “The Back Lot.”

  As Davis knew: Author interview with Clive Davis, December 3, 2013.

  “Not the way Paul”: Ibid.; author interviews with Mike Tannen.

  12 ■ BOOKENDS

  When the successful British pop band: Graham Nash, Wild Tales (New York: Crown, 2013).

  In the spring of 1967 Paul rented: Author interviews with Mike Tannen; author interview with Chuck Israels, August 7, 2013; Greenfeld, “For Simon & Garfunkel All Is Groovy.”

  Talking to a reporter at the Stockbridge: Greenfeld, “For Simon & garfunkel All Is groovy.”

  In the recording studio: Morgan Ames, “Simon & Garfunkel in Action,” High Fidelity, November 1967, p. 63; Greenfeld, “For Simon & Garfunkel All Is Groovy.”

  “It’s no good”: Ames, “Simon & Garfunkel in Action.”

  “Almost as if it’s not there”: Ibid.

  When bassist Bill Crow: Author e-mail interview with Bill Crow, March 24, 2014.

  Looking for a mod new sound: Ibid.; author interview with John Simon, September 16, 2014.

  “They were concerned about”: Clive Davis and James Willwerth, Clive: Inside the Record Business (New York: William Morrow and Co., 1974).

  Davis knew it was coming: Author interview with Clive Davis.

  “They are both college boys”: Letters from David Oppenheim to Boris Sedov, 1968, in the possession of New York University library.

  Plus a Soviet intelligence agent: U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, vol. 12, Soviet Union (January 1969–October 1970), doc. 1.

  “two of the finest singers”: Kevin Kelly, “Simon and Garfunkel, Poets, Balladeers,” Boston Globe, January 30, 1968.

  “Nobody is talking for this generation”: “Rock: What a Gas!” Time, April 19, 1968.

  “It looks like somebody’s lunch”: Recording of concert at Hollywood Bowl, August 23, 1968, in the possession of the author.

  “There’s been a change of identity”: Ibid.

  13 ■ SO LONG ALREADY, ARTIE

  Nicols called Paul: Paul Simon interview with Craig Inciardi, Paul Simon: Words & Music, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s library, October 30, 2014.

  Paul had plenty of other things: Author interviews with Mort Lewis, May 2013.

  “I liked people”: Ibid.

  “We’re divorced”: Author interview with Hal Blaine, May 16, 2013.

  “Little and poor”: Paul Simon original lyrics, Paul Simon: Words & Music, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s library, October 30, 2014.

  “I am but a poor”: Ibid.

  such a deliberately wounding way: Paul Simon interview with Tony Schwartz, Playboy.

  How could Paul begrudge: Jon Landau, “Paul Simon: The Interview,” Rolling Stone, July 20, 1972.

  He wrote letters telling Artie: Zollo, “Breakfast with Art Garfunkel.”

  “dig-yourself competition”: Columbia Records publicity handout, January 1966.

  Paul’s determination was offset: Author interview with Mort Lewis.

  “We had to postpone the concert”: Ibid.

  His friends in England: Author interview with Keith Altham.

  Before he started work: Ben Fong-Torres, “Hello Darkness, My Old Friend,” Rolling Stone, February 7, 1971.

  “When Al Kooper had played Paul”: Author interview with Al Kooper.

  The first time Paul heard: Chris Ingham, “Paul Simon: Still Crazy?,” MOJO, November 2000.

  as if Jeter’s voice: Paul Simon interview with Craig Inciardi, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum’s library.

  “I was the first person”: Author interview with Al Kooper.

  “It is a great song”: Zollo, “Breakfast with Art Garfunkel.”

  To make sure they’d have: Author interview with Marshall Chess, February 10, 2016.

  “You can’t take the writer’s notes”: Zollo, “Breakfast with Art Garfunkel.”

  “When you’re in the harmony game”: Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America, dir. Charles Grodin, CBS, November 30, 1969.

  The crowning moment: Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book (New York: Poseidon Press, 1989); “Simon and Garfunkle on WFUV,” For What It’s Worth (blog), July 4, 2011, christopherfountain.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/simon-and-garfunkle-on-wfuv/.

  When they played college shows: “Folk Duo, Students, Talk Pot and the Police,” Wichita State University Sunflower, November 4, 1969.

  “humanistic approach”: Charles Grodin, It Would Be So Nice If You Weren’t Here (New York: William Morrow and Co., 1989).

  When Paul, Artie, and Grodin refused: Loraine Alterman, “Paul Simon: The Rolling Stone Interview,” Rolling Stone, May 28, 1970.

  “The chaos of what the hell”: Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America.

  “We’re staying in the Beverly Hills”: Ibid.

  “When Paul came in”: Jon Landau, “Paul Simon: The Interview.”

  When they previewed the finished album: Author interview with Clive Davis.

  14 ■ I’D RATHER BE

  When he was in Rome: Paul Simon interview with Tony Schwartz, Playboy.

  “I’m really only interested in movies”: Ibid.

  “he really made me”: Ibid.

  Performing on a pleasant summer: Audience recording, Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Forest Hills, NY, July 18, 1970, in the possession of the author.

  “We’d have to stop our friendship”: Royston Eldridge, “What Friendship Means to Simon & Garfunkel,” Melody Maker, June 7, 1969.

  “We’ll always come back”: Alterman, “Paul Simon: The Rolling Stone Interview.”

  “We could easily do [a new tour]”: Ibid.

  Paul committed to playing: David Browne, Fire and Rain (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2011).

  It was not a crowd: Ibid.

  “Did you see that?”: Author interview with Hal Blaine.

  He started seeing a therapist: Alterman, “Paul Simon: The Rolling Stone Interview.”

  Paul had gotten in touch: Author interview with Jeffrey Sweet, October 2, 2014; author interview with Melissa Manchester, December 13, 2014; Terre Roche, Blabbermouth (New York: Terre Roche, 2013).

  “Part of the learning process”: Heather Winett, “An Interview with Paul Simon,” Washington Square Journal (April 13, 1970).

  “laughing lagoons”: Roche, Blabbermouth.

  “Just steal them”: Winett, “An Interview with Paul Simon.”

  Paul was particularly struck by the Roche sisters: Ibid.

  Did she think she was as good: Roche, Blabbermouth.

  “My sense was that he was searching”: Author interview with Melissa Manchester.

  “You can’t just sit here”: Author interviews with Mike Tannen, 2013–2016.

  “Well, that’s the biggest mistake”: Author interview with Clive Davis; Davis and Willwerth, Clive: Inside the Record Business.

  “I did try to reason with him”: Author interview with Clive Davis.

  At first Paul thought about forming: Author interview with Stefan Grossman, December 5, 2014.