"Eric B. told me he could steal 15 albums off the Beastie Boys' second album," said Def Jam founder Russell Simmons. But what catapulted that album, Paul's Boutique, to #156 on Rolling Stone's "500 Gre …

Paul Simon's emergence as a superstar ushered in a golden age of troubadours unparalleled in pop history; from Montreal to Memphis, from the Big Apple to Laurel Canyon, everybody was picking up a guita …