Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years

“Still Crazy After All These Years” –  Single by Paul Simon from the album Still Crazy After All These Years. Released March 26, 1976.

It was the third and final single from his fourth studio album of the same name (1975), released on Columbia Records. Though the song briefly reached the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S., it was a bigger hit on the magazine’s Easy Listening chart, where it peaked at number four.

Rolling Stone critic Paul Nelson considered “Still Crazy After All These Years” to be the best song on the album. He praises the “poignancy and openness” of the first verse and Brecker’s passionate sax solo, and the fact that the song demonstrates “the fierceness of [Simon’s] will.” Billboard described the song as “a superb ballad with excellent lyrics and excellent instrumentation.” Cash Box called the song “a moving, tender ballad” with “flawless” production and a “perfectly constructed” melody. Record World said that the style “is warm and reflective in a way that anyone can latch onto.”

Simon won the 1975 Grammy award for Best Pop Vocal Performance for this song, and the album won the Grammy for Album of the Year. At the ceremony, Paul Simon got up to make his acceptance speech and thanked Stevie Wonder, who’d won the previous two years, for not making an album that year. And the next year’s Album of the Year Grammy went to Wonder again.

Further recognition for Simon includes the very first USA Library of Congress’s Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in 2007, and being named one of the “100 People Who Shaped the World” in Time magazine in 2006. You know who else won a Gershwin the very next year? Stevie Wonder.

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Simon & Garfunkel - Still Crazy After All These Years (from The Concert in Central Park)

Simon Garfunkel - Still Crazy After All These Years (from The Concert in Central Park)03:29

Still Crazy After All These Years (Live at Central Park, New York, NY – September 19, 1981).

Albumul cu aceast titlu  a fost lansat la 25 Octombrie 1975, iar single-lul a fost lansat abia in 1976.

Paul Simon s-a nascut la 13 Octombrie 1941 in localitatea Newark, New Jersey. A inceput cariera muzicala in 1956.

Versuri:
I met my old lover
On the street last night
She seemed so glad to see me
I just smiled
And we talked about some old times
And we drank ourselves some beers
Still crazy after all these years
Oh, still crazy after all these years

I’m not the kind of man
Who tends to socialize
I seem to lean on old familiar ways
And I ain’t no fool for love songs
That whisper in my ears
Still crazy after all these years
Oh, still crazy after all these years

Four in the morning
Crapped out
Yawning
Longing my life away
I’ll never worry
Why should I?
It’s all gonna fade

Now I sit by my window
And I watch the cars
I fear I’ll do some damage
One fine day
But I would not be convicted
By a jury of my peers
Oh, still Crazy
Still Crazy
Still Crazy after all these years

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