Neighborhood
Wikipedia ties Paul Simon to Kew Gardens, Queens. A tie, not always an origin
Places
- Beacon Theatre
- Brill Building
- Forest Hills Stadium
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- The Concert in Central Park
- Forest Hills High School, School
Listen and read
Music spots
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Venue
Beacon Theatre
1929A 1929 movie palace on Broadway that began presenting live entertainment in 1966. Miles Davis played it in the early 1980s and Laurie Anderson during that decade, Sonny Rollins in the second half of the 1990s, and Paul Simon gave the first performances after its 2009 reopening, per Wikipedia.
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Studio
Brill Building
1962By the early 1960s the building at Broadway and 49th Street held more than 160 music-business tenants, and songwriters including Burt Bacharach, Neil Sedaka and Paul Simon worked in its cramped rooms, per HISTORY. Wikipedia counts 165 music businesses in it by 1962.
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Venue
Forest Hills Stadium
1964The West Side Tennis Club’s 14,000-seat stadium, built in 1923, is also a concert venue. A poster for its 1964 concerts billed Barbra Streisand, Count Basie and Harry Belafonte, and in the 1960s and 1970s it hosted Simon & Garfunkel among others. It reopened for concerts in 2013, per Wikipedia.
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Moment
The Concert in Central Park, the Great Lawn
1981On 19 September 1981 Simon & Garfunkel played a free benefit concert on the Great Lawn for an estimated 500,000 people. Proceeds went toward the park’s redevelopment and upkeep, and the show became the live album The Concert in Central Park, per Wikipedia.
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