"Still Crazy After All These Years" — Paul Simon

You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Peter Martin

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Broken Record's Justin Richmond joins us to talk Still Crazy After All These Years. Paul Simon's Grammy-winning album was born out of divorce, and produced some of his greatest songs of all time, like 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, My Little Town and I Do It For Your Love.

We dive into the story behind this remarkable album, including Steve Gadd's famous drum beat and how Stevie Wonder's Innervisions may have been the catalyst for Paul Simon's divorce?! Plus - Adam shares why this has been such a transformative album for him, and how it influenced his playing.

And, we ask: Is this the ultimate sad boy album? Is this the apex moment of boomerism? We kick off our new season with these questions and so much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, Bob, do you like podcasts?
0:01.5	Well, you know, with everything terrible in the world, no...
0:03.8	Actually, you don't have a mic, so Adam, do you like podcasts? Oh, man, I love podcasts. In fact, I'm on a podcast right now. Yes, I'm aware. Do you ever listen to the Broken Record podcast? Yeah, that's one of my favorites with Justin Richmond. Yeah. So I asked him if you could join us on the show today. Oh, that's very excited.
0:01.5	And he's going to be here in just a minute.
0:03.1	Very thrilling.
0:04.2	And speaking of broken... Yeah. So I asked him if you could join us on the show today. Oh, that's very excited.
0:21.4	And he's going to be here in just a minute.
0:23.0	Very thrilling.
0:24.1	And speaking of broken records, I think you broke a few on this arrangement.
0:27.9	Yeah. Most number of moo chords ever.
0:30.7	Yeah, that sounds like something I do.
0:32.3	Yeah. I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm
0:55.0	I'm
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0:59.0	I'm The
1:13.6	The I'm Adam Manus.
1:40.0	And you're listening to the You'll Hear a podcast.
1:41.7	Music, Explore.
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1:47.7	Peter, we are not alone today.
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