Paul Simon: Now They All Want Paul Simon Songs!
Keith Altham, NME, 22 April 1966
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT influence in popular music today, since the emergence of that well-known Lennon-McCartney firm, seems to be the mini-sized music-maker Paul Simon, who arrived on a five day private visit to England last Monday to find no less than three of his songs in the NME Top Twenty.
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