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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the late spring of 1967, the release of the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” hit the world like a paisley paint bomb. Its psychedelic splatters were especially evident in England, ...

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 ...