Elvis Presley
Personality 7, 123, 184, 192
Personal relationships: Chitty, Kathy (girlfriend) – see entry
Harper, Peggy then Lewis, Peggy) first wife – see entry
Son Harper – see entry
Fisher, Carrie (second wife) – see entry
Brickell, Edie (third wife) – see entry
Children Adrian, Lulu and Gabriel – see entries
Pseudonyms
Kane, Paul 17
Landis, Jerry 4, 7, 10, 17, 27–28
Taylor, True 7–8
Tico & the Triumphs 11–2
Race and Religion 1, 3, 66, 70, 118, 163
Songwriting 76, 82–3, 90, 99–100, 106, 111, 183
Simon and Garfunkel
Appearance 19–20, 50
Choosing stage name 4, 47, 99
Personality clashes 7, 71, 90, 94, 113, 161, 192 (but it’s never far away and they clearly enjoy goading each other in the media)
Pseudonyms
Tom and Jerry 4–9, 185
Kane and Garr 17
Reunions 111/2, 124, 127/8, 136, 145/6, 166, 192/3
Scholarly material 53, 56–7, 63–4
Studio practice 56, 72, 79, 81
Simon and Garfunkel
Collection, The (album) 145–146
‘Simon Says’ 78
‘Simple Desultory Philippic, A’ 30, 59
Simply Simon (bootleg) 125
Simpson, Valerie 133
Sinatra, Frank 54, 77, 102, 117, 128, 153
‘Since I Don’t Have You’ 140
Singing Island, The (songbook) 69
Singing Nun, The 21
Skellern, Peter 162
Skyliners, The 140
‘Skywriter’ 167
Sledge, Percy 162
‘Sleepy Sleepy Baby’ 13
‘Slip Slidin’ Away’ 137–8
‘Slow Breakup’ 162
‘Smile’ 137
Smith, Maggie 110
Snow, Phoebe 133, 137, 166
‘So Beautiful Or So What’ 189
So Beautiful Or So What (album) 188–190
‘Soft Parachutes’ 142–3
‘So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright’ 91, 94
‘Someday, One Day’ 53
‘Some Enchanted Evening’ 187
Some Enchanted Evening (album) 187–8
‘Some Folks’ Lives Roll Easy’ 133
‘Someone To Watch Over Me’ 187
‘Something So Right’ 117, 120
‘Sometimes When I’m Dreaming’ 150
‘Sometimes When We Touch’ 140
‘Somewhere They Can’t Find Me’ 29, 62
‘So Much in Love’ 161–162
Sondheim, Stephen 162
‘Song About the Moon’ 148
‘Song for the Asking’ 88, 94, 96
Songs from a Parent to a Child (album) 168–9
Songs from Liquid Days (album) 148
Songs from The Capeman (album) – See Capeman, The Songs of Paul Simon (songbook) 114–115
Songs Our Daddy Taught Us (album) 5, 16, 79, 100, 102, 123
Songwriter (CD set) 188
Sopranos, The (TV series) 107
‘Soul Makossa’ 152
Sound of Music, The (album) 86
‘Sound of Silence, The’ 25, 27, 29, 30, 33, 38–9, 47, 50, 52–4, 56, 63, 64, 68, 73, 97, 124, 142, 175, 179, 192
Sounds Of Silence (album) 22, 24, 51, 54, 56, 78
South Pacific (album) 86
Soweto String Quartet 157
‘Space Oddity’ 129
Spaniels, The 117
‘Sparrow’17
Specials, The 153, 155
Spector, Phil 59
Speed, Geoff 35, 36, 38
Spider-Man (musical) 174
Spinal Tap 130
Spinners, The 36
‘Spirit Voices’ 163
‘St Judy’s Comet’ 115, 120
Staple Singers, The 115
Starbucks 90
‘Star Carol’ 73
‘Stardust’ 3
Stardust Memories (film) 142
Starr, Ringo 116, 128, 164
Stern, Isaac 100
Stevens, Cat 169
Stewart, Al 25, 34, 38, 43–4, 71–2
Stewart, Ed 112
Stewart, Rod 153, 187
Stigers, Curtis 119
Stimela 155
Still Crazy (film) 130
‘Still Crazy After All These
Years’ 130–1, 134, 137, 145–6
Still Crazy After All These Years (album) 127, 130–5, 137
Still Water (poetry collection) 140, 163, 180
Still Whispering After All These Years (book) 130
Sting 164, 176–7, 184, 191
‘Stranded in a Limousine’ 137–8, 141
‘Stranger To Stranger’ 197
Stranger To Stranger (album) 195–9
‘Street Angel’ 197, 199
Streisand, Barbra 105, 136
Sullivan, Redd 25
‘Sun Is Burning, The’ 20
Supremes, The 85
‘Sure Don’t Feel Like Love’ 183
Surprise (album) 183–6
‘Surrender, Please Surrender’ 8
Sutherland, Donald 140
Swan Silvertones, The 83, 115, 117
Swingle Singers, The 121
‘Take a Message to Mary’ 109
‘Take Me Away’ 140
‘Take Me to the Mardi Gras’ 115, 117, 120
Tannen, Michael 83, 142
Tau Ea Matsekha 155
Taylor, Chris 179
Taylor, James 99, 101, 111, 120, 128, 138–9, 162, 164, 167–9, 176, 182, 184
Taylor, True – see Paul Simon
‘Teddy Bear’ 25
Tee. Richard 142
‘Teenage Fool’ 7
‘Teenager in Love, A’ 102, 194
Temptations, The 153
‘Ten Years’ 176
‘Tenderness’ 117
‘Tennessee’ 191
Tennille, Toni 129
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (book) 121
‘Texas Girl at the Funeral of her Father’ 165
‘That Forever Kind of Love’ 13
‘That’ll Be the Day’ 175
‘That Was Your Mother’ 157
‘That’s All I’ve Got to Say’ 144
‘That’s Enough for Me’ (album) 126
‘That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine’ 79
‘That’s My Story’ 8
‘That’s What Friends Are For’ (159)
‘Thelma’ 164
‘There But For Fortune’ 36
There Goes Rhymin’ Simon (album) 87, 114–20, 124, 133, 137
Thile, Chris 196
‘Things We’ve Handed Down,
The’ 169
‘Think Too Much (a and b)’147
‘This Guy’s In Love With You’ 70
‘This is the Moment’ 162
‘Tick Tock’ 13–14
Tico and the Triumphs – see Paul Simon
‘Tighten Up’ 70
‘Tijuana Blues’ 9
‘Times They Are A-Changin’,
The’ 19, 21, 30
Tiny Tim 128, 143
Titelman, Russ 147
Titus, Libby 137
Tom and Jerry – see Simon and Garfunkel
‘Tom Hark’ 151
Tomlin, Lily 141
‘Too Young’ 2
Top of the Pops (BBC TV series) 56, 128
Touré, Ali Farka 165
Toussaint, Allen 117
Townsend, Dave 139
‘Trailways Bus’ 172, 175
‘Train in the Distance’ 147
‘Travelling Boy’ 122
Travis, Merle 15
Trouble Over Bridgwater (album) 86
‘True or False’ 7
Turner, Big Joe 3
Turner, Kathleen 180
Turrin, Joe 99
‘Tutti Frutti’ 5
Two-Lane Blacktop (film) 128
‘Two Sleepy People’ 167
‘Two Teenagers’ 8
Tymes, The 161–162
‘Under African Skies’ 156, 161, 188
‘Up and Down the Stairs’ 13
‘Up in the World’ 145
Up ’til Now (album) 167
‘Up, Up And Away’ 122
Urubamba 93, 124–125
USA For Africa 149
U2 174, 184–5
Valens, Ritchie 157
Valentine, Penny 135
Valery, Dana 65
Van Ronk, Dave 15–8, 99
Van Rock, Terri 99
Vee, Bobby 15–6
Vega, Suzanne 148
‘Vendedor de Sonhos’ 164
Vietnam war 55, 77
‘Vietnam’ 106
‘Virgil’ 171
‘Voices of Old People’ 75, 123
Wainwright, Loudon 120
‘Wake Up Litte Susie’ 5, 8, 107–9, 146
Walcott, Derek 171–4
Walker Brothers 56
‘Wanderer, The’ 194
War and Peace 60
Warburton, Reg 29
Ward, Clifford T 145
Warner Bros 141–142
Waronker, Larry 147
Warren, Harry 128
‘Wartime Prayers’ 185–6
Warwick Records
‘Was a Sunny Day’ 115, 119, 125
‘Watermark’ 138
Watermark (album) 138–9
Watership Down (book & film) 138–9
‘Waters of March’ 129
‘We Are the World’ 149
Weavers, The 5
Webb, Charles 66
Webb, Jimmy 71, 114, 121–2, 138, 144, 149, 161, 167–9, 182, 191
‘We Can Work It Out’ 10, 50
‘Wednesday Morning, 3am, 20–21, 29, 62
Wednesday Morning, 3am (album) 19–21, 29, 78
Weightman, John 101
Weil, Cynthia 71, 162
‘We’ll Never Say Goodbye’ 165
Weller, Paul 159–160
Welles, Orson 87
Wenner, Jann 178, 181
‘Werewolf, The’ 198
West Side Story (musical) 162, 172
‘We’ve Got a Groovey Thing Goin’’ 29
‘What a Wonderful World’ 138
‘What I Am’ 166
‘What’ll I Do’ 187
‘What’s Going On’ 181
‘Wheels’ 190
‘When a Man Loves a Woman’ 162
‘When Someone Doesn’t Want You’ 140
‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone’ 39
‘Whispering Bells’ 160, 165
White, Barry 166
Who, The 64, 116
‘Who’s Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet’ 169
‘Who Knows’ 44
‘Who Put the Bomp’ 71
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (film) 66
‘Why Don’t You Write Me’ 91, 94
Whyton, Wally 25, 27, 97
‘Wichita Lineman’ 70, 122
‘Wildflower’ 10, 12
Wild Thornberrys Movie, The (film) 182
Williams, Andy 70
Williams, Deniece 162
Williams, George 161
Williams, Paul 114, 122
Williamson, Malcolm 139
Wild in the Streets (film) 79
Willis, Ellen 102–4
Wilson, Dennis 128
Wilson, Tom 18, 29, 38, 72
Wilson, Tony 35
‘Wimoweh’ 152
‘Wishbone’ 180
Wishful Drinking (book) 158–9
‘With God On Our Side’ 30
Wizard of Oz, The (film) 139
Womack, Bobby 83, 153
Womack, Solomon 83
Wonder, Stevie 85, 128–9, 175
‘Wooden Planes’
Woodley, Bruce 34
Wood, Ronnie 148
Woods, Phil 130
Woodstock (festival) 88
‘Work It’ 179
‘Work Song’ 24
‘Wow Cha Cha Cha’ 14
‘Woyaya’ 121
Wright, Frank Lloyd 94
‘Wristband’ 195–6
‘Ya Ya’ 10
Ya Yo 164
Yarbrough, Bob 135
Yardbirds, The 51, 152
Yarrow, Peter 76, 102, 126
‘Yellow Walls’ 43
Yes 74
‘Yesterday’ 83
’You Are My Sunshine’ 116
‘You Can Call Me Al’ 154, 156, 159, 179, 193
‘You Can Tell the World’ 20
‘You Don’t Know Where Your
Interest Lies’ 62, 65
‘You Never Wanted Me’ 44
‘You’re the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly’ 190
‘You Stepped Out Of A Dream’ 187
‘Young Electric Psychedelic etc’ 71
‘You’re a Wonderful One’ 169
‘You’re Kind’ 133–4
‘You’re So Vain’ 112
‘You’re The One’ 178
You’re The One (album) 177–9
Z, Jay 190
Zappa, Frank 39
Zeffirelli, Franco 79
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The journalist, author and broadcaster Spencer Leigh was born in Liverpool, England, and is an acknowledged authority on the Beatles. He has been broadcasting his weekly show, On the Beat, on BBC Radio Merseyside for more than thirty years and over that time has conducted more interviews about the band – all captured on tape – than anyone in the world. He has written over twenty-five books, hundreds of album sleeve notes and he writes obituaries of musicians for the Independent and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is an Honoured Friend at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA), co-founded by Sir Paul McCartney, and he has a Gold Badge of Merit from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. Spencer will always live on Merseyside.
Spencer Leigh is also the author of Frank Sinatra: An Extraordinary Life, Best of the Beatles: The Sacking of Pete Best, The Cavern Club: Rise of the Beatles and Merseybeat and Love Me Do to Love Me Don’t: The Beatles on Record, published by McNidder & Grace.
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