Paul Simon: Bloomsbury Theatre, London; Allen Toussaint: Bush Hall, London
Mark Pringle, Rock's Backpages, 3 June 2006
LET'S LOOK at what Paul Simon and Allen Toussaint share. They both wrote songs that helped shape this thing of ours, this culture we've shared for the last four decades.
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