Simon & Garfunkel's 1965 recording of 'The Sound of Silence' is a timeless masterpiece, an iconic song that floats beyond the constraints of time and space to become a composition holding a gravitas ...
The post Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” Takes Us Inside The Graduate appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Benjamin Braddock is staring down the barrel of his future — and he’s terrified ...
WASHINGTON — He joined Paul Simon to form the legendary folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel. This weekend, Art Garfunkel performs “In Close-Up” at the Kennedy Center at 8 p.m. Saturday. Flanked by ...
The purity of Art Garfunkel’s voice — a tenor that could shoot straight up to heaven — defined an era when it blended with the sound and songwriting genius of his partner, Paul Simon. Both mood and ...
Later, the 1966 album "Sounds of Silence" by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel was a hit in its day but not before the duo struggled and split early on. Their song "The Sound of Silence" from the aftermath ...
In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Simon And ...
It was a perfect statement of the folk-rock sound, incorporating the truth and soul of the folk world with the amplification and style of the post-Beatles music world. Simon & Garfunkel quickly became ...
It’s been 50 years since Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” topped Billboard magazine’s pop singles chart. But it’s been almost 52 years since the song was first recorded. What happened in ...