{"id":28685,"date":"2024-02-05T18:05:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T18:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-february-5-2018-paul-simon-announces-his-retirement-from-the-road\/"},"modified":"2024-02-05T18:05:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T18:05:38","slug":"on-this-day-february-5-2018-paul-simon-announces-his-retirement-from-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-february-5-2018-paul-simon-announces-his-retirement-from-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, February 5, 2018: Paul Simon announces his retirement from the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-02-05\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>On This Day, February 5, 2018\u2026<\/p>\n<p>After more than 60 years in music,\u00a0<strong>Paul Simon<\/strong>\u00a0announced his decision to retire from touring.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer said time away from his family and the death of his longtime guitarist,\u00a0<strong>Vincent Nguini<\/strong>, played a role in his decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Simon didn\u2019t give up the road without one more tour. In May of the same year, he launched Homeward Bound \u2013 The Farewell Tour, a four-month\u00a0trek that took him to North America and Europe, and wrapped in his home borough of Queens, New York.<\/p>\n<p>While the show marked the end of Simon\u2019s final tour, he\u00a0said he wasn&#8217;t\u00a0giving up performing all together and suggested he could perform live again. He did just that in August 2019, when he headlined San Francisco\u2019s Outside Lands Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, February 5, 2018\u2026 After more than 60 years in music,\u00a0Paul Simon\u00a0announced his decision to retire from touring. The two-time Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer said time away from his family and the death of his longtime guitarist,\u00a0Vincent Nguini, played a role in his decision.\u00a0 But Simon<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-february-5-2018-paul-simon-announces-his-retirement-from-the-road\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}