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Screenwriter, Composer (Music Score), Executive Producer, Actor, Songwriter Born: October 13, 1941 in Newark, NJ Biography:Rhymin' "Paul Simon" was writing songs with his future partner, "Art Garfunkel", as far back as 1955, when both were high schoolers in Queens, NY. Achieving brief fame as the singing team of Tom and Jerry in 1957, "Simon" and Garfunkel broke up and re-teamed several times before "officially" emerging as Simon & Garfunkel in 1964. During this period, "Simon" attended Queens College as an English major, wrote songs for other recording artists, and worked as a rock show promoter. Largely a college campus attraction at first, Simon & Garfunkel attained mainstream popularity when they contributed the songs heard on the soundtrack of the 1967 film hit "The Graduate". The two performers went their separate ways after the 1972 album Bridge Over Troubled Water. Like Garfunkel before him, "Simon" tentatively launched a film acting career, appearing as "Diane Keaton"'s L.A.-based boyfriend in the Oscar-winning... Full Biography
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