HE is one of the 20th Century's most successful singer-songwriters having shifted an estimated 150 million records and whose best known songs - Mrs Robinson, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Homeward Bound, The Boxer, The Sound of Silence, Mother And Child Reunion among them - have become part of the fabric of popular culture. But it is a little known fact - so little known that not even those who compile his websites, have written books about him and have dedicated themselves to documenting every aspect of his career - are aware that half-a-century ago Paul Simon twice performed in Swindon.
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