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His new marriage was failing and his career was in danger of stalling. "It’s a welcome surprise to read this careful look by a music historian at Graceland, Paul Simon’s 1986 masterpiece: By bringing both its beauty and its uglier aspects into the light, Kahn, far from ruining the album’s strange magic, lets readers appreciate its intricacies and paradoxes all the more." —The New York Times (Editors' Choice) In 1984, Paul Simon was at a professional and personal crossroads. He was forty-two, navigating a digital age, searching for inspiration in a scene driven by music videos, synthesizers, and drum machines. Driving around that summer, a bootleg cassette of “township jive”—the street music of South Africa—kept him company.