Amna Nawaz
@PBSNewsHour·5.3M subscribers·62.2K videos
WATCH: The one Simon & Garfunkel lyric that helps lift up author Dani Shapiro
Posted
December 17, 2020
Views
2,877
Likes
65
Engagement
2.26%
December 17, 2020
2,877
65
2.26%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
See what was published immediately before and after this episode.
1:05Now PlayingAuthor Dani Shapiro says a particular lyric -- “I don't know a soul who's not been battered” -- from a live recording of Simon & Garfunkel “lifts me up.”
The recording of the song “American Tune,” which was recorded in Central Park in the 1980s, also includes the crowd responding to the duo’s performance.
“Every time I hear that, I think of the way we’re all going through this,” Shapiro said.
In a year of crisis, here are the songs that some artists have turned to to bring them comfort or joy. Listen to the Spotify playlist here
Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app
Find more from PBS NewsHour at
Subscribe to our YouTube channel
Subscribe:
PBS NewsHour podcasts
Newsletters
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
