So Beautiful or so What: Paul Simon – review

(Decca)Paul Simon is dead and awaiting a glimpse of the divine. He's filled out the form and he's stood in the queue. The anteroom of the beyond, it turns out, is rather like the endless bureaucratic interzone of the living – at least on the second track on Simon's 12th solo album, a song called "The Afterlife". Eventually, Simon arrives in the presence of the Almighty. Attempting to describe the feeling, he flounders, unable to render the experience except as "a fragment of song". "A be-bop-a...

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