Paul Simon

BMG agrees to significant deal after he previously sold his solo catalog.

Ailment came on "quite suddenly" and "nobody has an explanation for it."

He headed to Muscle Shoals in Alabama to record one song but instead found a new sound.

He says the LP wasn't his idea, just like "The Sound of Silence" wasn't.

Stripped-down, 33-minute conceptual piece marks singer-songwriter's first work in five years.

Acoustic LP arrives four years after the idea came to singer-songwriter in a dream.

Star-studded tribute show will feature Sting, Elton John, Dave Matthews, Stevie Wonder and many others.

More so than almost any other record released since 1980, this is a cultural touchstone.

Settling into middle age, he became a much more deliberate world music traveler.

He was initially somewhat tentative, fearing that a tour without Art Garfunkel would be a flop.