On This Day - Paul Simon Releases ‘Graceland’, 1986

On This Day is a new regular series dedicated to great moments in music history. The story of ‘Graceland’ begins with Paul Simon’s career in freefall. He began the decade in the midst of a musical mid-life crisis. Following a badly received film (One Trick Pony - the definition of a ‘vanity project’) he fell back into the reliable arms of a Simon And Garfunkel reunion. But that ended abruptly after Simon erased Garfunkel's vocals from the album they were both working on. The tentat...

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