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Article: The name `Paul Simon' pulls voters, concert fans
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 16, 1987
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WASHINGTON Campaign workers insist there is no evidence to support
the idea, but imagine it anyway: Ticket in hand, the politically
confused voter journeys to the local concert to watch Paul Simon -
his candidate for president - sing from that Grammy Award-winning
album "Graceland." After a lovely evening, the fan returns home to
savor some old recordings of the president-to-be with the man any
right-minded follower hopes will be his running mate: Art Garfunkel.
At the concert, Paul Simon no doubt sings from his song "All
Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints": "There's no doubt
about it, it was the myth of fingerprints, I've seen them all and
man, they're all the same." But ...