Paul Stemets

STUNNING 2000 RADIO BROADCAST IN SUPPORT OF PAUL SIMON S YOU RE THE ONE ALBUM The late 1990s were a difficult time for Paul Simon. His stage-play The Capeman - written with poet and playwright Derek Walcott - which Simon had been working on for most of the decade, opened on broadway in 1998, was panned by critics and it ran for less than 70 performances before closing.

One of the major singer/songwriters to emerge in the 1960s, Paul Simon helped define the parameters of folk-rock with the records he made with his partner Art Garfunkel. Over the course of five albums, Simon & Garfunkel created some of the most indelible music of the '60s, including such perennials as "The Sounds of Silence," "Mrs. Robinson" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water." The duo split at the height of their popularity in 1970, leading Simon to launch a solo career with an eponymous debut in 1972, a record that established his increasingly adventurous musicality and lyrical sophistication.

Way back in 1963, Paul McCartney sang "A Taste of Honey" on the Beatles' debut album, and "Til There Was You" on their second LP, establishing that his tastes ran far beyond the world of rock & roll and R&B. Over the years, he touched upon pre-rock & roll pop – writing pastiches like "Honey Pie" with the Beatles and, crucially, snatching up the publishing rights to many of these tunes, thereby building his MPL empire – but he never devoted a full record to the style until 2012's Kisses on the Bottom, a cheekily titled (pun not only intentional but solicited) collection of songs you know by heart.

Australia’s greatest and most enduring songwriter, Paul Kelly, collaborates with award-winning Jazz pianist and composer, Paul Grabowsky, for reinterpretations of Paul Kelly classics, plus a cover of Cole Porter’s ‘Every Time We Say Goodbye’.

One of the biggest teen idols of the late '50s, Paul Anka moved to the adult sphere several years later and became a successful performer, songwriter, music businessman, and recording artist, remaining so well into the new millennium. Born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1941 to parents of Lebanese Christian descent who owned a local restaurant, Anka proved a child prodigy, beginning his show-business life at the age of 12 as an impressionist. By the age of 14, he was stealing the family car to drive to amateur singing contests in nearby Hull, Quebec and writing his own songs. His first single, "I Confess," appeared on the Riviera subsidiary of Jules and Joe Bihari's RPM label. While on a trip to New York with a group of friends who sang as the Rover Boys, Anka gained an audition with ABC producer Don Costa, and sang his own composition, "Diana," an ode to a former babysitter. Costa liked what he heard, recorded the teenager, and watched as the single hit number one on both sides of the Atlantic later in 1957, eventually selling a reported ten million copies worldwide.

Fellow Travelers is an American historical romance political thriller television miniseries based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Thomas Mallon. Starring Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey, it centers on the decades-long romance between two men who first meet during the height of McCarthyism in the 1950s. The series premiered on October 27, 2023, on Showtime.

A Prince Among Thieves is the 1999 mock soundtrack album by Prince Paul. It is a "mock" soundtrack because while it was developed as a movie, complete with a music video which showed acted segments, there was never an intention for Paul to turn this into a motion picture. While critics did praise this, it did not sell as well as expected, despite having a hit single featuring De La Soul, "More Than U Know". This was released by Tommy Boy.