Watch Paul Simon Marvel Over the Making of 'Cecilia' in Upcoming Documentary

In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon is a fascinating look at one of America's greatest songwriters. Directed by Academy Award-winner Alex Gibney, the two-part documentary, premiering March 17 on MGM+, follows Simon as he makes his latest album, the 2023 Grammy-nominated Seven Psalmswhile chronicling the 16-time Grammy winner's seven-decade career as a solo artist and as one half of Simon & Garfunkel.

The idea for his latest album came to him in a dream, and during the process of creating the set, he lost the hearing in his left ear, which affected his ability to hear himself sing.

Gibney follows him through this ordeal, but also goes back to Simon's school days, when he and Garfunkel met in elementary school when he was 11 years old. By the time they were 16, they had scored a record deal as Tom & Jerry in 1957 with the hit “Hello Schoolgirl”. Their first album under Simon & Garfunkel, Wednesday morning, 3 a.m., came out at Columbia in 1964.

After the first album was finished, Simon dropped out of law school and moved to London to pursue a solo career. It wasn't until producer Tom Wilson remixed the album's “Sounds of Silence” as a rock song that it became a hit and the pair reunited and went on to have a highly successful partnership, despite personal conflicts.

While making their 1970s landmark fifth (and final) album Bridge over troubled watersthe duo, with producer Roy Halee, recorded “Cecilia,” a charming love story gone wrong that included a taped loop long before they became common in songs.

In this exclusive clip above, Simon admires the original tapes, which he thought were lost, as he listens to them today and looks back on the recording.

“Roy, he was truly an innovator,” she says of Halee. “We kept falling into adventures and discoveries.”

Halee continued to work with Simon well into his solo career, creating the groundbreaking Graceland and Rhythm of the Saints.