Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, celebrates American artist Paul Simon, whose birthday is October 13, with the release of the monumental career-spanning 15-disc Paul Simon - The Complete Albums Collection.
Paul Simon - The Complete Albums Collection brings together, in a deluxe library box with magnetic closure, the 12 studio albums and two full-length live concert recordings which comprise the official canon of an extraordinary writer and tunesmith whose voice and music inform six decades of popular culture.
Included on Paul Simon - The Complete Albums Collection are the artist's seminal and groundbreaking solo recordings from the 1960s (The Paul Simon Songbook), the 1970s (Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin' Simon, Paul Simon in Concert: Live Rhymin', Still Crazy After All These Years), the 1980s (One-Trick Pony, Hearts and Bones, Graceland), the 1990s (The Rhythm of the Saints, Paul Simon's Concert In The Park - August 15, 1991, Songs from The Capeman), the 2000s (You're The One, Surprise) and the 2010s (So Beautiful or So What).
Each of the titles in Paul Simon - The Complete Albums Collection includes the original album in entirety, plus reissue bonus material not appearing on the original 12" vinyl releases (37 bonus tracks in all). The 15-disc collection includes a 56-page book full of photos and new liner notes penned by American music historian Ashley Kahn.
The deluxe complete set includes The Paul Simon Songbook, an acoustic album--recorded in London in the summer of 1965--showcasing solo versions of many songs that would become central to the Simon & Garfunkel repertoire.
Disc 1: The Paul Simon Song Book and bonus tracks (first released as CBS 62579 (U.K.), 1965 – bonus tracks from Columbia/Legacy CK 90281, 2004)
Disc 2: Paul Simon and bonus tracks (first released as Columbia KC 30750, 1972 – bonus tracks from Warner Bros./Rhino R2 78899, 2004)
Disc 3: There Goes Rhymin’ Simon and bonus tracks (first released as Columbia KC 32280, 1973 – bonus tracks from Warner Bros./Rhino R2 78900, 2004)
Disc 4: Paul Simon in Concert: Live Rhymin’ and bonus tracks (first released as Columbia PC 32855, 1974 – bonus tracks from Columbia/Legacy 88697 82000-2, 2011)
Disc 5: Still Crazy After All These Years and bonus tracks (first released as Columbia PC 35540, 1975 – bonus tracks from Warner Bros./Rhino R2 78901, 2004)
Disc 6: One-Trick Pony and bonus tracks (first released as Warner Bros. HS 3472, 1980 – bonus tracks from Warner Bros./Rhino R2 78902, 2004)
Disc 7: Hearts and Bones and bonus tracks (first released as Warner Bros. 23942, 1983 – bonus tracks from Warner Bros./Rhino R2 78903, 2004)
Disc 8: Graceland (released as Warner Bros. 25447, 1986) and bonus tracks from Rhino reissue (Warner Bros./Rhino R2 78904, 2004) and Legacy reissue (Legacy 88691 91471-2, 2012)
Disc 9: The Rhythm of the Saints and bonus tracks (first released as Warner Bros. 26098, 1990 – bonus tracks from Warner Bros./Rhino 78905, 2004)
Discs 10-11: Paul Simon’s Concert in the Park (first released as Warner Bros. 26737, 1991)
Disc 12: Songs from The Capeman and bonus tracks (first released as Warner Bros. 46814, 1997 – bonus tracks from Warner Bros./Rhino R2 78906, 2004)
Disc 13: You’re the One and bonus tracks (first released as Warner Bros. 47844, 2000 – bonus tracks from Warner Bros./Rhino R2 78907, 2004)
Disc 14: Surprise (first released as Warner Bros. 49982, 2006)
Disc 15: So Beautiful or So What (first released as Hear Music HRM-32814-02, 2011)
