There’s also a reunion track from 1975 that ended up on both of their solo albums from that year – the Simon penned ‘My Little Town’. It’s not that exciting musically, but it is a significant event and at least worth watching. I’ve only reviewed the studio albums, but the other noteworthy item in their discography is the Concert at Central Park live album from their 1981 reunion. At this point, Simon’s solo work has easily eclipsed Simon and Garfunkel’s catalogue in quantity and quality, but he’s never won the same place in popular culture that he did as part of Simon and Garfunkel. Paul Simon was clearly the driving force behind the band, as the songwriter and guitarist, but Garfunkel’s beautiful tenor and ear for harmony is also a key component of their sound. The pair splintered in 1970, and never recorded another studio album, but have periodically toured. Simon and Garfunkel cobbled together a quick second LP before hitting their stride in the late 1960s, with their meticulously produced, sweetly harmonised and literate blend of folk and pop. This created a number one hit and launched the duo’s career. But producer Tom Wilson noticed that ‘The Sound of Silence’ was popular among students, and overdubbed electric guitar and a rhythm section onto the original recording. The pair initially tried to break into the music industry as Tom and Jerry, playing Everly Brothers inspired teeny pop, then made their first LP in the midst of the 1960s folk revival. #SimonAndGarfunkel, #Bookends, #SimonAndGarfunkelBookends, #MrsRobinson, #MusicArt, #PaulKing, #PaulKingArtwerks, PaulKingArt.Simon and Garfunkel met as teenagers in a school play, where Simon played the White Rabbit and Garfunkel the Cheshire Cat. Robinson” became the first rock and roll song to win Record of the Year at the 11th Annual Grammy Awards in 1969. The album, alongside The Graduate soundtrack, propelled Simon & Garfunkel to become the biggest rock duo in the world.
In 2010, “All gone to look for America”, a reference to a line from the song “America”, began appearing spray-painted on vacant buildings and abandoned factories in the town of Saginaw, Michigan, which is mentioned in the song. The album also spawned these hits: “Bookends”, “America”, “A Hazy Shade Of Winter” and “At The Zoo”. Initial sales for Bookends were substantial in the US, and the album produced the number-one single “Mrs. Simon’s lyrics concern youth, disillusionment, relationships, old age, and mortality.
Side two largely consists of previously-released singles and of unused material for The Graduate soundtrack. Side one of the album marks successive stages in life, the theme serving as bookends to the life cycle. The duo had risen to fame two years prior with the albums Sounds of Silence and Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme and the soundtrack album for the 1967 film The Graduate.īookends is a concept album that explores a life journey from childhood to old age. Produced by Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel and Roy Halee, the album was released on April 3, 1968, in the United States by Columbia Records. Both at age 28.īookends is the fourth studio album by American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel. Simon And Garfunkel Bookends, hand-drawn in their iconic pose for the cover of their album “Bookends”.
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