QUEENS, N.Y. (CelebrityAccess) Paul Simon said farewell to touring Sept. 22 at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, N.Y., just minutes away from where he grew up.
Simon played a 26-song set wrapping his “Homeward Bound” tour with two encores that totaled eight songs. The first encore included “Still Crazy After All These Years” and the second included “Homeward Bound,” “The Boxer” and, finally, “The Sound of Silence.”
“It feels more like fate than coincidence that I should do the final show on the final tour at Flushing Meadows Corona Park,” Simon said, according to NME. “I could have ridden my bike from home to the park in about 20 minutes when I was a kid. But this is less a goodbye than a farewell. Thank you all for the ride, I had a great time.”
His setlist didn’t have too many b-sides:
America
50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
The Boy in the Bubble
Dazzling Blue
That Was Your Mother
Rewrite
Mother and Child Reunion
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (with Edie Brickell)
Rene and Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After the War (with yMusic)
Can’t Run But (with yMusic)
Bridge Over Troubled Water (with yMusic)
Wristband
Spirit Voices
The Obvious Child
Questions for the Angels
The Cool, Cool River
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
You Can Call Me Al
Encore 1:
Late in the Evening
Still Crazy After All These Years
Graceland
Encore 2:
Homeward Bound
Kodachrome
The Boxer
American Tune
The Sound of Silence
