Paul Simon’s 80th Birthday

The Sound of Silence – 1966 and 2009 – Josh Jones for Open Culture notices the difference

Paul Simon on “The Sound of Silence” – (from an interview in 2019 with David Rubenstein) – “.. I didn’t know.  What I did think was that this was the best of the songs that I had written at that point. Whatever your creative process is it comes through you and it’s yours but it’s almost like you didn’t write it. I didn’t know at that point, because I was twenty-two years old, that such a thing could happen. As years passed I began to recognize that that was an unusual and inspirational kind of occurrence.”

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On Twitter last week (Nov. 20), O’Brien jokingly revealed that Disturbed’s “cover of ‘The Sound of Silence’ is the first clip to crack 100 million views on my YouTube channel. I always knew that heavy metal band covers of Simon and Garfunkel songs would be my legacy.”

It’s a good thing Disturbed received a significant nod of approval from songwriter Paul Simon for their updated rendition of the tune. After all, the song made its mark beyond this world when it landed in a NASA video about the International Space Station. The cover’s popularity even inspired a Disturbed virtual reality experience. Following the single’s release, Draiman summed up its reception as “surreal. We really hadn’t expected the level of exposure and fervor over the cover. It was a gutsy move on our part.”

Although it was only a handful of years ago that Disturbed performed on Conan, the video of their powerful “Sound of Silence” appearance can inspire nostalgia in viewers for another reason: Draiman was still sporting his since-removed signature chin piercings.

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