“[They] said, ‘You’ll have to hide under a blanket in the back seat’ — which I did,” Paul Simon says in the new book, “Days of Miracle and Wonder: Paul Simon and the Trials and Triumphs of Graceland” by Ashley Kahn (Atria, Aug. 11). Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ won a Grammy for Album of the Year and spent 10 months on the Billboard Top 20. The classic album, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this month, won a Grammy for Album of the Year and spent 10 months on the Billboard Top 20, making it the best-selling album of Simon’s career. Ashley Kahn’s new book considers Paul Simon’s “Graceland” album. The post How Paul Simon’s classic album ‘Graceland’ almost didn’t get made appeared first on New York Post.