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Music legend Paul Simon finished his tour of farewell concerts at Flushing Meadows Park on Saturday night, where his career began in a poignant way: the Queens neighborhood, where is "Rosie, the Queen of Corona" .
"Hello my friends," he greeted his cheering crowd. "It's two miles from where I played baseball at High School in Forest Hills," said Simon, 76, who wrote his first song in Queens at the age of 13 years old.
The concert is opened under a full moon with "America", Simon & Garfunkel's classic of their album "Bookends".
Playing in front of an audience that went from former fans to babies in the arms of their parents, Simon followed with "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover", his only number 1 solo.
His wife, the musician Edie Brickell, was on the stage to whistle at "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard".
The listeners got up from their blankets and garden chairs to dance to the crowd, "You Can Call Me Al".
Other hits were "The Boy in the Bubble", "Graceland" and S & G classics "Mother and Child Reunion" and "Bridge Over Troubled Water" supported by strings.
Simon then took a break to congratulate "Bridge", covered by the great Aretha Franklin, who died today.
"It was good for people who appreciate it, coming from New York," said Dominick Valenza, a native of Queens.
"It was a thing in New York."
While he said he had stopped shooting, Simon insists he is not retiring, and he left the door open for occasional performances in the future.
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