History Music / PaulSimon

->''If you'll be my bodyguard, I can be your long lost pal.''\\
''I can call you Betty and Betty when you call me you can call me Al.''

Paul Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American folk and rock musician known both for his initial career in the folk-rock duo Music/SimonAndGarfunkel and his eclectic solo career, which has ranged from straightforward pop, rock and folk to world music explorations.

Paul Simon albums with their own article on TV Tropes:

* Music/{{Graceland}} (1985)

* NoodleIncident: Not even Simon knows what Mama saw in "Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard".

* NoodleIncident: Not even Simon knows what Mama saw in "Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard" (although it was almost certainly something sexual).

* TropeCodifier: He was the first to succeed at bringing world music to mainstream America's attention. That is if you don't count Music/TheBeatles experimenting with Indian music on Music/RubberSoul and Music/{{Revolver}}.

However, Simon rebounded with his MagnumOpus, ''Graceland''. Recorded in UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica with a cast of talented African musicians and containing a fusion of Western pop-rock and folk music with African genres such as isicathamiya and mbaqanga, the album was released in 1986 to a wildly positive response despite criticism of Simon for recording in South Africa [[CompletelyMissingThePoint at the height of Apartheid]]. The album re-established Simon as a successful artist and became an enduring benchmark by which "world music" experiments by other pop artists are measured.

* TropeCodifier: He was the first to succeed at bringing world music to mainstream America's attention.

* InMemoriam: "The Late Great Johnny Ace" is a tribute to Music/JohnLennon.

** "The Late Great Johnny Ace" from Hearts and Bones

Away from the music world, Simon is a member of the ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' Five-Timer's Club (even appearing in the original titular sketch). His memorable music video for "You Can Call Me Al" features Chevy Chase.

''I can call you Betty and Betty when you call me you can call me Al''

->''If you'll be my bodyguard,I can be your long lost pal.''\\

** "The Dangling Conversation"

* WordSaladLyrics: ''Boy In The Bubble'' borders on this.

* LyricalDissonance: "Boy In The Bubble".
Also from Graceland - "That Was Your Mother" - The upbeat zydeco music disguises the fact that the lyrics are basically a father complaining to their child that he and his mother don't have much fun since he was born.

* NoodleIncident: Not even Simon knows what Mama saw in "Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard".

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Averaging 2 -3 before the world music started. After, we probably need a different scale.

Away from the music world, Simon is a member of the ''SaturdayNightLive'' Five-Timer's Club (even appearing in the original titular sketch). His memorable music video for "You Can Call Me Al" features Chevy Chase.

Away from the music world, Simon is a member of the ''SaturdayNightLive'' Five-Timer's Club (even appearing in the original titular sketch). His memorable music video for "You Can Call Me Al" features ChevyChase.

Away from the music world, Simon is a member of the ''SaturdayNightLive'' Five-Timer's Club (even appearing in the original titular sketch). His memorable music video for "Call Me Al" features ChevyChase.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Started cynical-ish, but always had a foot in idealism.

* UptownGirl: "Diamonds on the soles of her shoes" from ''Graceland'' is ''explicitly'' about this trope.