“It's a turn-around jump-shot,
It's everybody jump-start, it's,
Every generation throws a hero up the pop-charts,
Medicine is magical and magical is art,
Think of the boy in the bubble and the baby with the baboon heart…”

— Paul Simon

The Boy In The Bubble
Song lyrics, Graceland (1986)

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American musician, songwriter and producer 1941

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