"Ten thousand people, maybe more," goes the line in The Sounds of Silence. Make that many, many more. An estimated 750,000, in fact, equivalent to the entire population of Baltimore, all crammed into a single patch of New York City's Central Park. PAUL SIMON was back, a decade after his first free concert there, but this time things were different. Unlike in 1981, he didn't invite his erstwhile partner Art Garfunkel to join him. Simon, now the Midas of polycultural pop, seemed determined to banish the ghost of the folk-rock sound that made him famous. Backed by a 17-piece band, he...
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