Yes, folks, Paul Simon’s time on the road is slip sliding away. The 76-year-old Queens native is ending his “Homeward Bound — The Farewell Tour” with two shows at Madison Square Garden tonight and Friday, before his final concert at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Saturday.
Here’s a look back at some important numbers in his life as Simon counts down to the end of the road.
1: Although he has dabbled in acting, even appearing in “Annie Hall,” Simon has only starred in one feature film: 1980’s “One-Trick Pony,” a story about a failing musician. In addition to doing the music for the movie, Simon also wrote the screenplay.
2: Simon is part of an exclusive club who have been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame not once, but twice. He was first initiated in 1990 as half of Simon & Garfunkel, and then he got his second enshrinement as a solo artist in the class of 2001.
3: There have been three Mrs. Simons: He first took the plunge with Peggy Harper in 1969 before divorcing in 1975. Then he had a blink-and-you-missed-it marriage to Carrie Fisher from 1983 to 1984. But Simon made it stick with singer-songwriter Edie Brickell, his wife since 1992.
4: A close friend of “Saturday Night Live” creator-producer Lorne Michaels, Simon has hosted the show four times. In fact, he was the host for the second episode of “SNL” in October 1975, and he has made various other appearances as musical guest and in other capacities.
11: That’s the age that both Simon and Art Garfunkel were when they met each other. The two childhood friends grew up three blocks away from each other in Forest Hills, Queens, and went to the same elementary school, junior high school and high school.
12: He’s got a perfect dozen of Grammys. Eight are for his work with Simon & Garfunkel, including Album of the Year for 1970’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” Simon also picked up two more AOTY Grammys in his solo career, for 1975’s “Still Crazy After All These Years” and 1986’s “Graceland,” giving him a rare three wins in that top category.
14: “In the Blue Light,” Simon’s 14th solo studio album, came out earlier this month. The LP features re-imaginings of songs previously recorded throughout his solo career, from 1973’s “One Man’s Ceiling Is Another Man’s Floor” to 2011’s “Questions for the Angels.”
50: Simon scored his only No. 1 single as a solo artist with “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” in 1976 after three previous chart-toppers with Garfunkel (“The Sound of Silence,” “Mrs. Robinson” and “Bridge Over Troubled Water”).
61: That’s how many years it’s been since Simon made his recording debut in 1957, when he and Garfunkel dropped the single “Hey Schoolgirl” under the name Tom & Jerry. Seven years later, they released “Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.,” their debut album as Simon & Garfunkel.
68: In a major flop, “The Capeman” — Simon’s $11 million Broadway musical starring Latin artists Marc Anthony and Ruben Blades in the true story of gang member and murderer Salvador Agrón — closed after just 68 performances in 1998.
500,000: The number of people (at least) who came to Central Park for the Simon & Garfunkel reunion concert in 1981.