“So everything became more difficult.”
“The songs of mine that I don’t want to sing live, I don’t sing them.
“Quite often that would come during ‘you’ve got the option to Call Me Al.’

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I’d think, ‘What are you doing?
You’re like a Paul Simon cover band.
You should get off the road, go home.'”
In addition to Simon’s hearing loss, a bout of COVID-19 took a toll on him.
“Boy, have I been beaten up in these last couple of years,” he said.
“But I look good, right?”