Legendary singer-songwriter Paul Simon – perhaps best known as half of musical duo Simon and Garfunkel – is releasing his best-of collection next month, featuring two discs of tracks selected by the singer himself, reports NME.
Due out October 24, only 11 days after the musician’s 70th birthday, the collection will include both Simon’s mainstream hits and several lesser-known personal favorites.
The double album will be titled Songwriter: "I think of myself as a songwriter first: the recording artist and performer in me follow in the writer’s footsteps," Simon explained.
The 32 career-spanning tracks will include a live version of the 1965 Simon and Garfunkel track The Sound of Silence, recorded at New York Webster Hall earlier this year, as well as a cover of their 1970 hit Bridge Over Trouble Water recorded by soul legend Aretha Franklin.
To accompany the release of the Songwriter collection, remastered editions of several of Simon’s earlier albums will hit shelves on October 24 as well. One-Trick Pony (1980), Hearts and Bones (1983), Graceland (1986) and The Rhythm Of The Saints (1990) will all be rereleased with bonus tracks for the occasion.