Gone at Last

"Gone at Last"
"Gone at Last"
Single by Paul Simon and Phoebe Snow
from the album Still Crazy After All These Years
B-side	"Take Me to the Mardi Gras"
Released	August 1975
Genre	Gospel;
Length	3:40
Label	Columbia;
Songwriter(s)	Paul Simon
Producer(s)	Paul Simon; Phil Ramone;
Paul Simon singles chronology
Phoebe Snow singles chronology

"Gone at Last" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. It was the lead single from his fourth studio album, Still Crazy After All These Years (1975), released on Columbia Records. Phoebe Snow and the Jessy Dixon Singers provide guest vocals, with Snow receiving credit on the single release.

Reception

Billboard described "Gone at Last" as "a combination of rock and roll and old time revival gospel."^[1]

Chart (1975)	Peak position
Australia (Kent)^[2]	95
Canada (RPM)^[3]	29
Canada Pop Music Playlist (RPM)^[4]	7
US Easy Listening (Billboard)^[5]	9
US Billboard Hot 100^[6]	23

^ "Top Single Picks" (PDF). Billboard. August 16, 1975. p. 78. Retrieved 2020-07-16.
^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
^ "RPM100: Singles" (PDF). RPM. 24 (6). Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada. October 4, 1975. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
^ "The Programmers' Pop Music Playlist" (PDF). RPM. 24 (9). Ottawa: Library and Archives Canada. October 25, 1975. Retrieved November 12, 2015.
^ "Paul Simon - Chart history". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved November 13, 2015.
^ "Paul Simon Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved November 12, 2015.

Bennighof, James (2007). The Words and Music of Paul Simon. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-275-99163-0.
Eliot, Marc (2010). Paul Simon: A Life. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-43363-8.

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Discography
The Paul Simon Songbook	"I Am a Rock" "Leaves That Are Green" "April Come She Will" "The Sound of Silence" "A Simple Desultory Philippic" "Patterns"
Paul Simon	"Mother and Child Reunion" "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" "Duncan"
There Goes Rhymin' Simon	"Kodachrome" "Loves Me Like a Rock" "American Tune" "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" "Something So Right" "St. Judy's Comet"
Paul Simon in Concert: Live Rhymin'	"The Sound of Silence"
Still Crazy After All These Years	"Gone at Last" "My Little Town" "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" "Still Crazy After All These Years"
Greatest Hits, Etc.	"Slip Slidin' Away" "Stranded in a Limousine"
One-Trick Pony	"Late in the Evening" "One-Trick Pony" "Oh, Marion"
Hearts and Bones	"Allergies" "The Late Great Johnny Ace" "Think Too Much"
Graceland	"You Can Call Me Al" "Graceland" "The Boy in the Bubble" "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" "Under African Skies" "Homeless"
The Rhythm of the Saints	"The Obvious Child" "Proof" "Born at the Right Time"
You're the One	"Old" "You're the One"
Surprise	"Father and Daughter" "That's Me" "Outrageous"
So Beautiful or So What	"Getting Ready for Christmas Day" "The Afterlife"
Stranger to Stranger	"Wristband" "Cool Papa Bell" "The Werewolf"
Featured singles	"Wonderful World" "The Blues" "The Boxer" "New York Is My Home"
Other songs	"Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog after the War" "Thelma"
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