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The greatest vocalist of all-time, according to Paul Simon: "The best voice"
Thu 6 August 2026 16:27, UK
FarOutMagazine
Music has always been subjective. One person might swear by Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water', while another will always reach for The Sound of Silence', and neither is wrong.
Every listener hears something different. Every now and then, though, a song comes along whose brilliance is almost impossible to dispute.
Even Paul Simon himself, who speaks with more authority on the subject than almost anyone still alive, knows that musical taste is never absolute.
Like everyone else, he can only offer his own opinion.
It's accomplishing something, but for Trump, not for DC or for America.
It riles up the goshdarn Base rural of rwingers; shows he knows how to treat the Darkies.