Paul Simon Planning 'Graceland' Tour, Box Set (Video)

A 25th anniversary tour to celebrate Paul Simon's landmark Graceland album the coming year is incorporated in the early planning stages. The tour would coincide having a Graceland box set that The new sony Legacy will release within the late spring, probably in May.our editor recommends9/11: Paul Simon Works at Twin Towers Memorial Service (Video)Carlos Santana, Paul Simon Protest Cuts to Grammy Groups Simon told Billboard.biz he expects to reunite music artists who together with with him later, included in this the South African vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. In This summer, Simon came back to Nigeria together with his band and carried out with trumpeter Hugh Masekela and Ladysmith Black Mambazo for any crowd of 300 people. Director Joe Berlinger, whose credits include documentaries around the West Memphis Three and Metallica, shot the performance for any film that'll be incorporated inside a 25th anniversary box set. Berlinger's film can also be likely to be posted to film festivals. PHOTOS: Top Ten Greatest Compensated Artists "The documentary," Simon stated, "required me to the artistic aspects and also the political facets of making Graceland and also the debate that encircled it and just how it had been resolved, plus what remains from it and what we should study from it." Simon, who together with the U.S. and Europe early in the year and summer time following the discharge of So Beautiful approximately What, returns to carrying out March. 17 in Phoenix, Ariz. The tour systems November. 26 in Atlantic City, N.J. Later, Simon received the album of the season Grammy for Graceland. Simon and the entourage together with the planet from early Feb through early This summer, coming back to Europe within the summer time of 1989 carrying out music inspired by South African township jive, zydeco and Mexican conjunto. While Graceland was initially released on Warner Bros., captured Simon licensed his catalog to The new sony Music, getting together all his solo and Simon & Garfunkel work in one place, except for So Beautiful approximately What, that is on Hear Music/Concord. The new sony Legacy re-launched his first four solo albums in June. CAA, Simon's booking agent, wouldn't discuss the tour. Related Subjects Paul Simon