293 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.Īll songs composed by Paul Simon unless otherwise noted. It is easily their best-selling album in the U.S., and holds the record in the U.S. The album has proven a long and durable seller, currently being certified for 14 million units sold in the U.S. Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits peaked on the U.S. Script error: No such module "Album ratings". 1 as singles in their studio versions, and "The Boxer" peaked as a single at No. " The Sound of Silence" and " Bridge over Troubled Water" also peaked at No.
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Robinson" topped the chart aided by its appearance in Mike Nichols' hit movie The Graduate. The remaining ten studio songs comprise nine singles released between 19, " America" being issued as a single several years after its appearance as a track on the Bookends album, and one album track, " Bookends" (without its parent song "Old Friends").Īll the singles included, except "America," " El Condor Pasa (If I Could)," and " Scarborough Fair/Canticle" made the Top Ten, with the last peaking at No. A live version of "Homeward Bound" was also included on the album. In a 1975 BBC Radio 1 interview, Roy Halee identified this version of "The 59th Street Bridge Song" as being from Simon & Garfunkel's 1970 performance at Carnegie Hall, "the last concert they did together" (prior to their disbanding later in 1970). According to the liner notes from Collected Works, however, the version of "Kathy's Song" was taken from a 1968 concert in Vermont. The liner notes to Live 1969 state that these two songs were both recorded at a November 1969 concert in St. The album's minimalist packaging does not specifically date the latter however, the live versions of "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" and " Kathy's Song" included on Greatest Hits were also included on the 2008 album Live 1969. Both Simon & Garfunkel have had their differences with each other, with rifts opening up between them at the drop of a hat, and despite Garfunkel claiming that the duo would possibly tour again in 2014, Simon announced his own retirement from live performance in 2018 which put an end to that.The album was a mix of original studio recordings and four previously unreleased live recordings.
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Simon & Garfunkel essentially ceased to exist in 1971 after winning six Grammy Awards including Album of the Year, and did occasionally reform to no avail throughout the decade, but reunited more successfully in 1981 for a free concert in New York which was released as an album The Concert in Central Park in early 1982. Simon & Garfunkel scored the first of two UK Official Album Chart Number 1s with Bookends in 1968, the other being 1970’s Bridge Over Troubled Water, which went on to sell over 25 million copies and become the biggest-selling album of the 1970s, the title track of which also became a UK Official Singles Chart Number 1 that year. Simon & Garfunkel started to gain interest when their song The Sound of Silence became a radio hit, and so they reformed again in 1966. did nothing, and so both went on solo careers. Simon & Garfunkel properly came into being in 1963 when they signed a deal with Columbia Records but split after their debut album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. Simon and Garfunkel first met at school in Queens, New York in 1953, and by 1957 they’d formed a duo called Tom & Jerry. Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk-rock duo consisting of singer, songwriter and musician Paul Simon (born Octoin Newark, New Jersey) and singer Art Garfunkel (born Novemin New York City).