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There\u2019s no point in Paul Simon<\/a> trying to make songs that everyone was going to love. <\/p>\n He could only quote his own heart when making his greatest compositions, and even if they resonated with millions around the world when making his solo masterpieces or Simon and Garfunkel classics, that was only a happy by-product of everything. He was bound to have a few haters along the way, but Simon knew that only the chosen few legends were the ones immune to any kind of criticism.<\/p>\n Then again, Simon\u2019s musical heroes were far more eclectic than the average rock and roll players. He had already been immersed in the folk scene before Simon and Garfunkel came into his mind, but when he started working with other musicians in his solo career, there were a few people from the jazz world who helped show him what could be done if he expanded his sound a little bit.<\/p>\n But before he even broke away from his singing partner, he was always daring to dream bigger than typical goddamn rock and roll songs. \u2018Bridge Over Troubled Water\u2019 was already based on a work by Bach, so it wasn\u2019t like Simon was trying to write an answer to a Chuck Berry song. When someone gets hit with rock and roll as a kid, though, there\u2019s no way to forget how that music made you feel.<\/p>\n Sure, soul artists like Sam Cooke and Ray Charles defy explanation because of how genius their works are, but when listening to the Everly Brothers, Simon knew that sounded feasible. The way those harmonies stacked on top of each other wasn\u2019t going to be that hard for him and Garfunkel to do, and when they started making their own masterpieces, tunes like \u2018Scarborough Fair\/Canticle\u2019 took what his heroes started out with and pushed it even further.<\/p>\n If anyone was going to have an effect on Simon, though, it was bound to be Elvis Presley. Simon already went through the trouble of naming an entire album after Graceland<\/a>, but when he first visited the piece of rock and roll history, he wasn\u2019t too thrilled with what he saw. The whole thing looked gaudy, but when he was shown \u2018The King\u2019s final resting place, it was enough to make him shed a tear. <\/p>\n