Vinyl Record

Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years

Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years album cover

Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years on LP vinyl. A 1975 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP ยท 1975

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1975 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Still Crazy After All These Years is Paul Simon's 1975 album of adult aftermath, released when the first glow of his post-Simon and Garfunkel solo career had settled into something more rueful and sophisticated. Working again with Phil Ramone, Simon builds a record where jazz-pop colours, careful horn writing, studio precision and emotional understatement carry the weight. The title song opens with reunion, loneliness and self-recognition delivered without theatrical excess. 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover turns a breakup into one of the decade's most memorable drum-pattern pop songs. Gone At Last brings Phoebe Snow into a gospel-soul charge, while My Little Town briefly reunites Simon and Garfunkel in a darker portrait of home than nostalgia usually allows. I Do It For Your Love and Have A Good Time deepen the record's late-night mood. Winning Album of the Year at the 1976 Grammys, it captures Simon at a peak of craft, writing about age before he was old.

Still Crazy After All These Years matters because it confirmed Simon's solo authority after the shadow of Simon and Garfunkel. The album made sophisticated, jazz-tinged adult pop commercially central in 1975 without sanding away regret, irony or emotional ambiguity.

For collectors, this is one of the central 1970s Paul Simon titles: Grammy-recognised, song-rich and unusually coherent in mood. It sits naturally beside Paul Simon and There Goes Rhymin' Simon, but its deeper, more nocturnal temperament gives it a distinct shelf identity.

Mid-1970s singer-songwriter pop with jazz harmony, gospel-soul lift, elegant horns, precise drums, soft piano and Simon's dry conversational voice at its most adult.

Recommended for: Collectors building the core Paul Simon solo catalogue; Listeners drawn to 1970s songwriter albums with jazz-pop sophistication; Fans of 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, My Little Town and the title track.

When was Still Crazy After All These Years released? Still Crazy After All These Years was released in 1975 as Paul Simon's fourth solo studio album. Which hits came from Still Crazy After All These Years? The album includes 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover, Gone At Last, My Little Town and the title track. Did the album win major awards? Yes. It won Album of the Year at the 1976 Grammy Awards, and Simon also won Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.