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LIFE Magazine (Al Aronowitz):
"John Simon is a sort of Leonard Bernstein of pop music."
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Village Voice (Paul Gorman):
"Simon’s songs are very honest, funny and real. A wonderful craftsman of song."
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SHOW Magazine:
"John Simon produced The Band, Leonard Cohen, Simon and Garfunkle, Blood, Sweat and Tears, among others, and now, with his own album, he has produced a record that may be better than anything done by any of the above-named performers. The consistency of inventiveness, both in lyrics and music, is rather staggering."
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Stereo Review:
"Best of the Month – a very special release demonstrating the impressive range of Simon’s talent."
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Daily News (on Twyla Tharp piece):
"…had the audience dancing in their seats." |
Newsweek (Jack Kroll, also on Tharp piece):
"a deft and melodic texture of sonic occasions, ranging everywhere from march to waltz to disco." |
Newsday (Wayne Robins, Tharp again):
"Simon’s music is the highpoint; it’s a stylish pastiche that includes elements of circus music, big band, Dixieland, baroque music, rhythm and blues and rock… yet it has a clarity of focus." |
N.Y. Observer (Rex Reed, on the cabaret act):
"Unique, original, fresh and funny… John Simon is a superb, witty lyricist." |
Woodstock Times (Daniel Logan, same act):
"John Simon is a songwriter whose works should be represented in a Broadway show. His lyrics and music are so witty, so charming, and so wonderful that one cannot help wondering why the moguls of the Great White Way have not discovered him. Simon writes singable, adroit, intelligent and very musical songs." |
TIME Magazine:
"Pick of the Pop….an individuality all too rare in pop today."
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Rolling Stone Magazine:
"Bursting with talent."
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