Released in 2001, on CD and on label Legacy (COL 495084 2). Simon And Garfunkel — Bridge Over Troubled Water. Genre: Rock, Folk, World, & Country. Style: Folk Rock, Soft Rock
Singer/songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel of the folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel in a Columbia Records publicity still circa 1967 1966 in New York, New York.
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As Paul Simon prepares for his final ever UK concerts, he’s laid bare how decades of bitterness, jealousy and in-fighting with Art Garfunkel created a rift that can NEVER be healed
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Photo Credit: Peggy Harper/Paul Simon Private Photo Collection
Simon and Garfunkel’s 1969 television special “Songs of America” shows the two on stage, in the studio and on a concert tour across a turbulent country. Their ambitious Bridge Over Troubled Water album had yet to be released and the glorious title song was heard here by the general public for the very first time. The program showed news clips of labor leader/activist Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, the Poor People’s Campaign’s march on Washington, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, JFK and Robert Kennedy and other events that were emblematic of the era. “Songs of America” was originally sponsored by the Bell Telephone Company, but the execs there got cold feet when they saw what they’d paid for—legend has it that they looked at the footage of JFK, RFK and MLK during the (powerful!) “Bridge Over Troubled Water” segment (approx 12 minutes in) and asked for more Republicans! (Not assassinated Republicans, just more Republicans...you know, for balance!) The special was eventually picked up by CBS. It was directed by the comedic actor, writer and later talk show host Charles Grodin, a friend of the duo. Grodin had already been in a...
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8 JULY 1966 'I Am a Rock' by Simon and Garfunkel was another song that - much like ' The Sound of Silence ' - enjo...
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Bullied at school for his beetle brows, chubby cheeks, thickening nose and short stature, singer-songwriter Paul Simon's jealousy of Art Garfunkel began in fourth grade and never abated.
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