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Brenda
Sep-14-2015, 00:33 GMT
Australia
  | I truly love 'American Tune " Richard. Lyrics are superb. Was very disappointed it was not performed here in Sydney on the Old Friends Tour in 2009. I thought it was one of the highlights of the 2003 tour. Magnificent performance on the Colbert Show on Sept 11. Paul performed it on The Colbert Report in 2008 when he was promoting his Lyrics Book.
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Bodo
Sep-14-2015, 08:42 GMT
Austria
  | Under pressure, Brenda.
To me he wasn't really happy when he was pressured to say that "Paul Simon is a jerk"...took him 2-3 seconds to find an answer, then he said "Paul Simon is a little bit of a jerk".
It is interesting, Paul does not want this conflict, he does not like it to be on the media. But it seems like the media is not happy, they want him to escalate it from his side too a little bit.
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Ans
Sep-14-2015, 14:48 GMT
Netherlands
 | I think it was all rehearsed before so no pressure. I loved the other little jokes, Paul never met Paul Simon technically and Stephen Colbert ending the song with " me and who." |
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Brenda
Sep-15-2015, 00:05 GMT
Australia
| I agree with Ans that Paul would have known about the little "jerk " joke beforehand. Would not read too much into the short delay in answering as he usually does stop and consider his reply . Loved the you can "Call Me Al" joke too. He seemed happy enough leaving the theater and talked to the legendary Radio Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFmYEEs2h28 |
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Klausi
Sep-15-2015, 16:18 GMT
Germany
 | Paul wanted "American Tune" to be released as first single of TGRS, but Clive Davis convinced him to choose "Kodachrome".
Then "Loves me like a Rock", which became a Million Seller and as third single "American Tune". No wonder it did not make the Top Ten (Nearly the same happened to "Still crazy", also third single after "Gone at Last" and "Fifty ways to leave your Lover", apart from "My Little town", also released earlier)), but AT was chosen by Rolling Stone as "Song of the Year".
Paul thought he took the main melody from J.S.Bach out of his St. Matthew Passion but in fact Bach himself has "stolen" the melody from a guy named Hans Leo Hasler, who composed it in the early 17.th century and Bach used it several times.
The part between the verses ("and I dreamed") was written by Paul alone. |
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