VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Paul Simon couldn’t resist introducing some ambiguity to the first night of what he has billed as “Homeward Bound — the Farewell Tour,” at Rogers Arena here on Wednesday night. After singing “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” — itself a song about an ambivalent exit — he joked: “I lied about the final. This is it.” But he continued, “I don’t know what the ‘it’ is,” and went on to elaborate. Like Elton John (whose farewell tour is scheduled to persist into September 2019), Mr. Simon, 76, has announced an end only to his touring, not to making music or to performing. And with the opening show here in Vancouver, he was far more a curious musician than a self-congratulatory, self-repeating pop star.

Source: New York Times May 17, 2018 13:41 UTC