Paul Simon was born in Newmark, New Jersy on October 13, 1941. Arthur Garfunkel was born three weeks after that, on November 5, in Forest Hills, a middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. When Simon and his family moved to Forest Hills shortly after he was born, they settled into a house only three blocks away from where the Garfunkels lived. Fate and proximity brought the two boys together; ambition and a shared love of rock & roll made them stick together. After appearing in a 6th grade production of Alice In Wonderland (Simon was the Rabbit, Garfunkel was the Cheshire Cat), they quickly made the leap from idle crooning to serious singing.
Interesting Facts:
*1* For a short period of time Paul Simon was married to Carri Fisher (aka Princess Leia).
*2* Among Paul Simon alias' were Jeri Landes and Paul Kane.
*3* He retrieved the name "Kane" from the movie Citizen Kane.
*4* The "Heart and Bones" album by Paul Simon was originally created to be a Simon and Garfunkel album, Paul changed his mind and made it his own, and you know, yeah.
*5* THEY WERE BOTH JEWISH!!
*6* 1981 he wrote the screen play, produced, wrote the soundtrack and starred in the hit thriller "One Trick Pony" (I saw this movie, and is by far the best movie I have ever seen)

THE NEXT INTERESTING FACT HAS A INTRODUCTION DONE BY MUDLICK:
As it happened, i was watching Regis & Kathy Lee yestermorn and their guest had told an interesting Anecdote involving !**PAUL*SIMON**! The moral of the story was that Paul Simon (Who was Paul Simon at the time) had saved the life of the shows guest Eric Idol (Correct me if I'm wrong but i believe he was part of the Monty Python Troupe).
"How?" Roman asks himself skeptically.
"By making him fart of course".

The UNABRIDGED story
The anecdote begins as Eric Idol is in a London hosptial for some life threatening stomach ailments. Paul Simon phones him up from NYC and tells him an anecdote of his own (not this anecdote mind you). The resulting laughter from Idol led to a continuous fart lasting a perplexing 3 minutes. As it would occur, Idol's condition improved, and he accreditted his recovery from the fart administered by Simon's anecdote. I swear to you this whole story is true (Except it was the Martin Short show, but i think he's a loser).To sum up the story for the webpage it would be appropiate enough to say:

*7* Paul Simon once saved Eric Idol (From Monty Python fame i believe) from certain death by making him fart for 3 minutes

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