Paul Simon plays “Something so right” live after 33 years

In a few days Paul Simon will resume the “A quiet celebration” tour, which started in the United States last summer, marking the singer-songwriter’s live return after seven years of retirement, and will return to concerts in the UK and Europe. In view of the new series of dates in the Old Continent, the 84-year-old American musician was Stephen Colbert’s guest on his “Late show” on the episode of April 2nd.

During his participation in the program Paul Simon played a song that he hadn’t performed live for 33 years. The song in question, originally released on his third solo album “There goes rhymin’ simon” in 1973, is “Something so right”. Sitting on a stool, Simon sang the song he hadn’t performed since 1993 in a version that included acoustic guitar, strings, flute, bass and percussion.

He later joined Stephen Colbert for a reflection on his early career in England, before Simon & Garfunkel’s success with “The Sound of the Silence” in 1965.

The A Quiet Celebration tour of Europe and the UK will kick off in Prague on 9 April and include concerts in Liverpool and Glasgow, before a double date at London’s Royal Albert Hall in May and a final date in Dublin.