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Paul Simon gives glimmer of hope that he’ll perform live again amidst hearing loss
There’s a glimmer of hope for Paul Simon fans.
Last year the musician broke hearts across the world when he said that it had become “extremely” unlikely that he would ever perform live again after he lost almost all of the hearing in his left ear.
But last night, the “Graceland” superstar said that his hearing has unexpectedly improved somewhat and that he’s now “optimistic” that he might be able to perform his latest album live.
In June, he told “CBS Sunday Morning” that a 2022 performance at the Newport Folk Festival might have been his last.
“I hope not,” the Simon and Garfunkel co-founder said, “I really wanted to perform [new album] the ‘Seven Psalms.’ I haven’t given up hope, but I’m prepared to accept that I might not be able to.”
On Wednesday night, he seemed to have changed his tune.
“[The hearing has] come back to enough of a degree that I’m comfortable singing and playing guitar and a few other instruments,” he told Stephen Colbert during a Q&A after a screening of new Alex Gibney documentary on his career, “In Restless Dreams,” “I can hear my voice the way that I want it. [But] if there’s a drum or an electric guitar, it’s too loud and I can’t hear my voice.”
“Next month I’m going to try to do a rehearsal with an entire ensemble of ‘Seven Psalms’ and see if I can get through the [album].”
He added, “I’m optimistic that I can.”
The screening at the Directors Guild Theater was attended by Whoopi Goldberg, Debra Messing, Marlo Thomas, Camryn Manheim, Rupert Friend, Aidan Quinn, Eric Stoltz, Bart Freundlich, Julie Taymor and Peter Thomas Roth and there was a glitzy party at the Pool afterward.
The documentary is set to screen in two parts on MGM+, beginning this Sunday.
A rep for Simon didn’t get back to us.
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