Paul Simon performed “Something So Right”forgotten extract from There Goes Rhymin' Simonon the plateau of Late Show with Stephen Colberta few days before the launch of his world tour.
A few days before the start of a vast world tour in Prague, which will keep him on the road until mid-July, Paul Simon stopped off on the set of Late Show with Stephen Colbert for an interview and a rare performance: “Something So Right”buried track from the album There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973), which he had not performed in public since 1993, during his Concert of a Lifetime residency at the Paramount Theater in New York.
From English folk to American charts
During the interview, Simon reflected on his years as a folk singer in England in the 1960s, before the success of Simon & Garfunkel. “It had a huge effect on my music”he confided. “This English, Celtic culture… I love this music, I fell in love with it. Here, I would have heard it through the Everly Brothers, but there, we touch on the origins. »
Simon returned to America in 1965, when “The Sound of Silence” begins to climb the charts thanks to a new folk-rock version put together by Columbia producer Tom Wilson — the same day he recorded “Like a WECB” with Bob Dylan. Art Garfunkel informs him that the song has just appeared at the bottom of the magazine's singles chart. Cashbox. A few weeks later, while in Copenhagen, Simon picked up the latest issue.
A world tour before summer
More than 60 years later, “The Sound of Silence” remains a pillar of his concerts. The song closed its tour almost every evening A Quiet Celebration in 2025, first series of dates since the farewell tour Homeward Bound in 2018. If Simon keeps the same format for the next dates, he will first perform his entire album Seven Psalms (2023), followed by a second set mixing classics and rarities: “Homeward Bound”, “Train in the Distance”, “Graceland”, “Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard”.
The American leg of the tour begins June 4 in Palo Alto, California, and concludes July 18 in Highland Park, Illinois. On the program, two evenings at Forest Hills Stadium in New York — a few minutes from Simon's childhood home in Kew Gardens, Queens.
