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He married actress Carrie Fisher, best known for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars film series.
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- Paul Simon released his seventh solo studio album “Graceland”, which became his most successful album and his highest-charting album in more than a decade. It reached number three in the US and number one in the UK, and sold more than 16 million copies worldwide. In 1987 it won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, and in 2006 it was added to the US National Recording Registry.
- Paul Simon released the single “Graceland” with backing vocals by The Everly Brothers. The song was the title track of the album of the same name, which had been released two weeks earlier.
- Paul Simon odehrál bezplatný koncert v Central Parku v New Yorku, podobně jako v roce 1981 s Artem Garfunkelem. Vystoupení bylo později vydáno jako album „Paul Simon’s Concert In The Park“.
- He staged a free concert in New York's Central Park, which was broadcast live on HBO and later released as the album “Paul Simon's Concert in the Park”. Attendance figures vary significantly among sources, ranging from 600,000 to 750,000 people, while later estimates suggest a much lower actual park capacity.