DVD Paul Simon - Solo Englisch 1988 AC3 DVD - Dorian

From the Los Angeles Times review...Chris Willman - 9. Juni 1990

The hour-long special, "Paul Simon: Solo" covers unusual
territory. It's the rare musician profile that first focuses
in on music itself and then makes an interesting case for it.
For that we can thank the British, for the show has proper,
unsensationalist BBC origins. Interviewer Mark Steyn peers into
Simon's handwritten songwriting notebook and gets a look at how
the lyric for "Hearts and Bones" developed from an altogether
different idea, thanks to a borrowed line from Yeats. He asks
Simon how "Mother and Child Reunion" would have sounded had it
been recorded as first intended, in a ska instead of a reggae
style (the islanders informed Simon in the early '70s that ska
was already "out"), and Simon picks up the guitar and demonstrates.
Simon even picks apart one of his favorite and least successful
songs, "Rene and George Magritte With Their Dog After the War,"
and wryly notes, "To be realistic about it, the people that have
heard of Magritte haven't heard of the Penguins and the Four Satins
and the Moonglows (and vice versa) . . . so it's a very small
audience that I'm addressing." The show does a remarkable job
of covering the breadth of Simon's career--from his seminal
attempts at "teen-king music" through his time with Art Garfunkel
through a wide-ranging 20-year solo career--in a short time,
with economical use of vintage clips. As slow and carefully as
Simon speaks, you feel like you've gotten two hours' worth of
information in half the time.