Paul Simon ranked Paul McCartney highly as a songwriter. He admired McCartney’s work from the Beatles and his solo career, and he ranked him higher than nearly all of his contemporaries. Still, not every McCartney song was a success in Simon’s mind. There was one that he found particularly odious, even describing it as “garbage.”
Paul McCartney and Paul Simon | Express/Express/Getty Images; George Rose/Getty Images The ‘Sound of Silence’ artist had a problem with political music
While many of Simon’s contemporaries released political songs, he wanted to primarily focus on his craft, not any other causes.
“First of all I think, if a musician is serious about his music, his obligation should be to become as fine a musician as he could,” he told Rolling Stone in 1972. “This country has a tremendous lack of people who are good in what they do, including musicians.
Paul McCartney and Paul Simon | Express/Express/Getty Images; George Rose/Getty Images The ‘Sound of Silence’ artist had a problem with political music
While many of Simon’s contemporaries released political songs, he wanted to primarily focus on his craft, not any other causes.
“First of all I think, if a musician is serious about his music, his obligation should be to become as fine a musician as he could,” he told Rolling Stone in 1972. “This country has a tremendous lack of people who are good in what they do, including musicians.
- 1/24/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Unreleased cover songs by Bruce Springsteen, Tom Morello, Donovan and Tim Robbins highlight the massive compilation celebrating the 21st anniversary of protest music label Appleseed Recordings.
In addition to Springsteen’s take on “We Shall Overcome,” Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches exclusively features the rocker’s rendition of the Pete Seeger folk classic “If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song).” Morello contributes his version of AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap,” while Donovan covers Joan Baez’s “Wild Mountain Thyme.”
John Wesley Harding, John Stewart,...
In addition to Springsteen’s take on “We Shall Overcome,” Appleseed’s 21st Anniversary: Roots and Branches exclusively features the rocker’s rendition of the Pete Seeger folk classic “If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song).” Morello contributes his version of AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap,” while Donovan covers Joan Baez’s “Wild Mountain Thyme.”
John Wesley Harding, John Stewart,...
- 8/20/2018
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Richard “Dick” Naradof Goodwin, the author, playwright, former political advisor and White House speechwriter whose story about his investigation into the Twenty One Quiz Show scandal became the basis for Robert Redford’s 1994 film Quiz Show, died Sunday after a brief bout with cancer. He was 86.
For 42 years, he was married to the presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin on whose book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln the Steven Spielberg movie Lincoln was partly based.
As speechwriter to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Goodwin crafted what are widely considered to be some of the greatest and most influential presidential speeches in American history, including Kennedy’s Latin American speeches, Robert Kennedy’s “Ripple of Hope” speech in South Africa in 1966 and Johnson’s civil rights “We Shall Overcome” and Great Society speeches. Goodwin even helped craft Vice President Al...
For 42 years, he was married to the presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin on whose book Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln the Steven Spielberg movie Lincoln was partly based.
As speechwriter to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Goodwin crafted what are widely considered to be some of the greatest and most influential presidential speeches in American history, including Kennedy’s Latin American speeches, Robert Kennedy’s “Ripple of Hope” speech in South Africa in 1966 and Johnson’s civil rights “We Shall Overcome” and Great Society speeches. Goodwin even helped craft Vice President Al...
- 5/23/2018
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
★★★★☆ Niels Arden Oplev's (director of the first in the original Swedish The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy and the recent Deadfall) partly autobiographical film We Shall Overcome (Drømmen, 2006) is a tender portrait of a young boy growing up in 1960s Denmark who, inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. takes a stand against tyranny. Thirteen-year-old Frits (Janus Dissing Rathke) is the victim of bullying at school but it is his headmaster, rather than his fellow pupils, who is his main tormentor. Lindum-Svendsen (Bent Mejding) rules the school with a rod of iron and strikes terror into the children's hearts.
Frits' farmer father (Jens Jørn Spottag, a regular fixture in popular Scandi-crime TV series The Protectors) has suffered a nervous breakdown and is in hospital, so Frits finds solace in the company of the school's newest recruit Freddie (Anders W. Berthelsen) a hippy, trainee teacher who introduces...
Frits' farmer father (Jens Jørn Spottag, a regular fixture in popular Scandi-crime TV series The Protectors) has suffered a nervous breakdown and is in hospital, so Frits finds solace in the company of the school's newest recruit Freddie (Anders W. Berthelsen) a hippy, trainee teacher who introduces...
- 7/23/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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