At 74, he is ready to hang up his guitar, says Paul Simon

More than half a century after writing "The Sound of Silence", the American singer Paul Simon says he's ready to hang up his guitar and stop making music. "Show business has no interest for me," said the singer of 74 years in an interview published Wednesday by The New York Times. "It is an act of courage to do it," the newspaper said Simon. "Let's see what happens if I leave. Then I'll see," he added.

The star of 'folk' who then turned to ethnic music is about to conclude on Friday US tour to present his latest album "Stranger to Stranger" which went on sale on June 3. Of the items on this disc, "Wristband" has achieved remarkable diffusion especially in college radio. Simon's tour will end in the borough of Queens in New York City where he grew up and met his now estranged musical partner Art Garfunkel.

Then it plans to start a tour of a month in Europe on October 17 in Prague, shortly after his 75th birthday. Simon anticipated the New York Times that after that has no fixed plans and is intended to make a trip a year, probably with his third wife Edie Brickell music also. Simon has his back an extraordinary career of more than six decades in which he has won a dozen Grammys and has produced some iconic songs like "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and "Mrs Robinson".