Graceland

Graceland is an album released in 1986 by Paul Simon. It was a big hit in the UK topping the charts at #1. It also reached #3 in the US. The album won the Album of the Year Grammy award, while title song won the Record of the Year Grammy award, for 1986 and 1987 respectively. The title track was inspired by a visit to Graceland, Elvis Presley's estate in Memphis, Tennessee. In 2006, the album was added to the United States National Recording Registry, along with another 24 significant recordings that year. Coming at a time when Simon's musical career was at something of a low ebb following the disappointing public response to Hearts and Bones, the project was originally inspired by Simon's listening to a cassette of the Boyoyo Boys instrumental "Gumboots", lent to him by Heidi Berg, a singer-songwriter whom Simon was working with (and who would later become an award-winning jingle singer and writer). Simon later wrote lyrics to sing over a re-recording of the song, which became the... full article at wikipedia