I was shocked to see an unflattering headline in the national press about my friend Al. He always seemed a nice guy. A neighbor here on the North Shore, then he moved to Maine.

“Fun fact, the titular line for ‘You Can Call Me Al; was inspired by an ... ‘Thank you, Al, and please give my best to Betty.’” In the end, Simon used this miscommunication to explain ...

Phone rings and you answer the call. On the other end of the line, you hear someone talking – maybe it sounds slightly garbled – and then they ask, “can you near me?” You answer “yes ...

Quite often that would come during You Can Call Me Al. I’d think, ‘What are you doing? You’re like a Paul Simon cover band. You should get off the road, go home.’” According to Setlist ...

“It’s all much quieter. It’s not ‘You Can Call Me Al.’ That’s gone. I can’t do that one.” Though Simon called his condition “incredibly frustrating,” he has a renewed sense of ...

Paul Simon has opened up about his decision to retire hit song ‘You Can Call Me Al’. The Simon and Garfunkel singer-songwriter has grown distant from some of his most iconic songs over the years.