Influential folk duo Simon & Garfunkel were still savoring the success of their latest single, “Mrs. Robinson,” when their track “The Boxer” was sent to radio stations and record shops. The stirring, ...
“For the first few years, it was just pure praise,” Paul Simon told Playboy magazine. “It took two or three years for people to realize that we weren't strange creatures that emerged from England but ...
It was a disc that went Platinum in my mom’s Pontiac, as we’d listen to it over and over every time we’d make a day out of going to Cleveland for a baseball game or have a long trek to the foothills ...
Similar to the gangsta rap genre of the 1990s, the singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s had its New York/East Coast and L.A./West Coast contingents. Last month we talked about one of the top L.A.
An audible sadness passed through the crowd before Simon finished performing the Simon & Garfunkel song Paul Simon gave a fitting tribute to Muhammad Ali Friday night – pausing in the final verse of ...
It took five months, 100 hours of studio time, a lift shaft and a church. “The Boxer” is an extraordinary acoustic achievement for the time. The tale of defiance and survival, about a boy who fights ...
When Neil Young wrote "it's better to burn out than to fade away," he might as well have been talking about Simon & Garfunkel. The duo rode a critical and commercial high as the '60s ended, with a ...
As one half of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, Art Garfunkel won over fans of the rock and folk genres with his high-pitched tenor voice. Decades after the musical duo first achieved mainstream popularity, ...
WHILE they may be fatter, balder and older than when they ruled music, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel let the years slip, slide away last night, playing the songs of their youth at Madison Square Garden ...
Black Simon & Garfunkel surfaced again Wednesday night on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” this time singing a delicate acoustic folk version of the Weeknd’s hit “Can’t Feel My Face” for ...
Paul Simon is retiring from touring, but he still plays some shows here and there, and last night (8/11) he was one of the headliners at San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival. While on stage, he ...