Paul Simon given title of new album in dream on anniversary of dad’s death
Paul Simon was told the title of his new album in a dream on the anniversary of his dad’s death. ‘The Sound of Silence’ singer, 81, woke in 2019 on 15 January – the date his musician father Louis died in 1995 – and scrawled the words ‘Seven Psalms’ on a piece of paper as the phrase was an “insistent statement” he was given while sleeping. He told The Sunday Times: “The dream was specific. ‘You are writing, or are meant to write, a piece called Seven Psalms.’ “It was a very insistent statement, so much so that I wrote it down.” Paul keeps the lined A4 sheet on which he wrote the words framed in...