All Gone To Look for America: Simon & Garfunkel
Bud Scoppa, Sony Legacy, February 2001
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
THE NOTION THAT BABY BOOMERS can stake the first claim on rock and roll is a fiction. The fact is, it was the War Babies — kids born during World War II, kids like Artie, Paul, and me — who had first dibs on this revolutionary music.
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