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Permutations of the saying have always been floating around for centuries - "still cool," "still in love," etc. The third new studio album of And the next year's Album of the Year Grammy went to Wonder again.This is a gentle, reflective song dwelling on middle age. And it didn't come with melody, either. In her days with The Runaways, Joan Jett saw The Arrows perform "I Love Rock And Roll," which Alan Merrill co-wrote - that story and much more from this glam rock pioneer.A founding member of the band War, Harold gives a first-person account of one of the most important periods in music history.The Doobies guitarist and lead singer, Tom wrote the classics "Listen To The Music," "Long Train Runnin'" and "China Grove. I met my old lover On the street last night She seemed so glad to see me I just smiled And we talked about some old times Regarding the unusual chord changes, he added: "I was studying with a bass player and composer named Chuck Israels at the time so I was doing more interesting changes. "A scholarly analysis of yacht rock favorites ("Steal Away," "Baker Street"...) with a member of the leading YR cover band.The top chant artist in the Western world, Krishna Das talks about how these Hindu mantras compare to Christian worship songs.The former Dead Kennedys frontman on the past, present and future of the band, what music makes us "pliant and stupid," and what he learned from Alice Cooper. For another song known for showing Paul Simon's humorous, even self-deprecatory side, see "This song opens with a Fender Rhodes electric piano played by Richard Tee, who used the phase shifter effect to create the sound. Recorded and released in 1975, the album produced four U.S. Top 40 hits: "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (#1), "Gone at Last" (#23), "My Little Town" (#9, credited to Simon & Garfunkel), and the title track (#40). These guys owned a recording studio in Alabama where Simon recorded "Simon didn't invent the phrase "still crazy after all these years," but he certainly popularized it with this song. Many Baby Boomers could relate; Simon (as part of Simon & Garfunkel) grew up with the baby boomers (he was born in 1941) and could basically write about whatever was going on in his head and it would also be about what was on many minds within his generation as well.
In a 1990 interview with SongTalk magazine, Simon said: "In 'Still Crazy After All These Years,' that title phrase came to me first. He can also be heard on James Taylor's "Karen Carpenter picked this song to cover for her debut solo album, which is uneasy to contemplate, since she died of anorexia nervosa, a then-unknown psychological illness. Simon explained in Michael Brecker played the saxophone on this track. It won two Grammy Awards for Album of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1976.
Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Still Crazy After All These Years - Paul Simon on AllMusic - 1975 - The third new studio album of Paul Simon's… And then I had to create a story." feat: Billy Joel used the same setting on his Rhodes for "Paul Simon recorded this song with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section: Barry Beckett on piano, David Hood on bass, and Roger Hawkins on drums. 9
It just came as a line. But just as he did with the "This song is a case of lyrical dissonance, where the music doesn't match the mood of the words.