Paul Simon: Palladium, London
Bob Woffinden, NME, 20 December 1975
LAST TIME PAUL Simon toured in Summer '73, he used a South American group, Urubamba, and an American gospel quartet, the Jessy Dixon Singers (Jessy plus her three sisters) to accompany him. The net result was a varied, imaginative and compelling evening, all captured on record on Simon's live album.
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