Because Paul Simon excelled at writing such great melodies and, along with Art Garfunkel, sang some of the most gorgeous harmonies heard on the radio in the '60s, Simon & Garfunkel's achievements in ...

Hassall: The first time I heard Simon & Garfunkel, I was in the lounge room at Dad’s house. I got to pick the record that night – Bookends. (Probably for the cool cover art, a black and white picture ...

Side one of Bookends is a themed suite of songs focusing on life’s journey from childhood to old age. Side two features three songs released as singles before the album, as well as the finished ...

After a rerecording of “The Sound of Silence” made them stars, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel churned out a pair of albums in a hurry in 1966 to capitalize. But they took their time for the follow-up.

Bookends is timely and avant-garde and full of beautiful arrangements, but it’s wonderful mostly for the same reason all Simon & Garfunkel songs are wonderful: that strangely emotional commingling of ...

When Simon & Garfunkel met neither could have imagined the career that lay before them. Their story through troubled waters to their re-ignited friendship is retold by ‘Bookends’, a duo whose voices ...

Grammy Award-winning American singer Art Garfunkel performs on stage at the Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, Israel, on June 10, 2015. Art Garfunkel, the singer and songwriter best known as half of the ...

Simon’s final tour is dubbed the “Bookends” tour and so it is fitting that the Barre Opera House will host the British duo of Dan Haynes and Pete Richards, known as Bookends, for a 7 p.m. Sunday, ...

The beauty of Art Garfunkel’s and Paul Simon's music is the uncanny ability to blend beautiful sound and serious content to sum up basic truths and the mood of a generation. The release of the new 11 ...

Probably the most celebrated duo in pop folk music, Simon and Garfunkel, were the essence of harmony. The duo's voices are definitely one of the most cherished sounds of the '60s. Their harmonizing ...

The post Classic Album Review: Simon & Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water Remains a Richly Poetic Farewell appeared first on Consequence of Sound. By the time Bridge Over Troubled Water arrived on ...