Reading: ‘It was a damn unicorn’: the pioneering, divisive power of Paul Simon’s Graceland at 40

As I read about Paul Simon's struggles to come to terms with the impending demise of his marriage and the commercial success of "Late in the Evening", a shiver ran down my spine - it was as if I was witnessing a private, almost sorrowful, moment from someone I'd never met. There's something eerily intimate about being privy to an artist's inner turmoil, and for me, it's like the melancholy notes of Simon's songs have somehow seeped into my own earbuds, leaving me feeling a tad wistful, as if I'm

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