 Simon hit the
Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with
"Gone At Last."
Year-End Chart
Position: # 176
 Simon hit the Top 10 with
"Slip Slidin' Away."
from the LP Greatest
Hits, Etc.
Billboard
chart run: 35 - 30 - 26 - 22 - 17 - 15 -
13 - 10 - 10 - 7 - 6 - 6 - 5 - 15 - off
available for download at iTunes and Amazon.mp3
 # 57
Singles Artist of the Year
 Simon hit the Top 40 with "Late In The Evening."
from the LP One
Trick Pony
ARC chart run: 28 - 22 - 11 - 8 - 5 - 4 - 7 - 13 - 20 - 26 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 71
available for download at Amazon.mp3
Simon hit the Top 10 with "Late In The Evening."
 Simon hit the Top 40 with "One Trick Pony."
from the LP One
Trick Pony
ARC chart run: 40 - 37 - 34 - off
Year-End Chart
Position: # 218
available for download at Amazon.mp3
Simon was nominated for a Grammy
Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Male
("Late In The Evening).
 Simon won a Grammy
Award for Album of the Year (Graceland) and was nominated for
Song of the Year (songwriter)
("Graceland") and Best Pop Vocal Performance -
Male (Graceland).
The video for "Boy In The
Bubble" was nominated for 5 MTV Video Music
Awards for Video of the Year, Best Special Effects, Best Art Direction, Most Experimental Video, and Viewer's Choice, and "You Can
Call Me Al" was nominated for Best Male Video.
Simon won 2 American Music
Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist and Favorite Pop/Rock Album (Graceland).
Simon won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year
("Graceland").
Simon was nominated for a Grammy
Award for Album of the Year (The
Rhythm Of The Saints) and Producer of the
Year.
Simon married Edie
Brickell.
 Rock
'N Roll Hall Of Fame's 500
Songs That Shaped Rock And Roll includes
"Graceland."
Simon contributed the track
"Ten Years" to the Carnival:
Rainforest Foundation Concert compilation to benefit
the rainforests.
It was announced that Paul
Simon's much-hyped and controversial Broadway
music The
Capeman would close by the end of the
month after what will be only 68 performances
for the $11 million dollar musical. The show
received mixed reviews (with most praise
going toward Simon's score) and had protests
against it before it even opened due to the
storyline focus on a double murder in the
50s. The show also had a delayed opening and
has been through 4 directors and 2
choreographers.
 Ranked # 100 on VH1: Greatest
Artists of Rock & Roll (and
# 89 on Rock On The Net's
Poll).
Simon kicked
off a tour sharing the bill with Bob
Dylan. Dylan said of Simon in USA
Today: "he's written extraordinary
songs, hasn't he? I consider him one of the
pre-eminent songwriters of the times."
Simon made this year's
nominee ballot for induction into the Rock
& Roll Hall of Fame.
 Simon released You're
The One and kicked off a fall
tour.
You're
The One was certified gold.
VH1: 100
Greatest Albums includes Graceland at # 84.
Simon was
nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year (You're
The One).
Simon was
inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of
Fame as a solo artist.
Simon performed
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" for a
landmark fundraiser (America:
A Tribute To Heroes) aired by all the
major networks to raise money for families of
the victims of recent terrorist attacks. The
single "Slip Slidin' Away" was
certified gold.
 Simon released
the hits compilation - The
Paul Simon Collection.
Simon was
nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best
Original Song for "Father &
Daughter" from the film The
Wild Thornberrys Movie.
Simon was
nominated for an Academy Award for Original
Song for "Father & Daughter"
from the film The
Wild Thornberrys Movie.
 After 20 years,
Simon was back on tour with his former
partner Art Garfunkel.
Rolling Stone:
The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: # 81:
Graceland, # 267:
There Goes
Rhymin' Simon.
 A 9-CD box set, Studio
Recordings 1972-2000 was released.
Simon performed on Shelter
From The Storm: A Concert For The Gulf Coast
- a benefit program shown on all the major
networks simultaneously to raise money for
those affected by Hurricane Katrina.
 Simon released Surprise (Billboard peak: # 14 - Entertainment
Weekly:
A- - Rolling Stone:  ).
Simon performed on Saturday
Night Live.
The
Essential Paul Simon (Billboard peak: # 42) was released.
 Simon could be heard on the Wyclef Jean LP Carnival
II: Memoirs Of An Immigrant on the track
"Fast Car."
Entertainment Weekly:
100 Best Albums of the Last 25 Years included Graceland at # 8.
 The hits collection This
Better Be Good was released (Billboard peak: # 60).
Simon released So
Beautiful Or So What.
 Songwriter was released.
Simon released the CD/DVD Graceland
(25th Anniversary Edition).
Simon released the 2CD/DVD set Live
In New York City (available for
download at Amazon.mp3).
 September 7: Simon released In The Blue Light.
Tracks: "One Man's
Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor" -
"Love" - "Can't Run
But" - "How The Heart
Approaches What It Yearns" -
"Pigs, Sheep And Wolves" -
"Rene And Georgette Magritte With
THeir Dog AFter The War" - "The
Teacher" - "Darling
Lorraine" - "Some Folks' Lives
Roll Easy" - "Questions For The
Angels"
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