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November 2011
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gracefulinthemorninglight asked: you should post more often, Simon and Garfunkel are my favorite band! Are there any other S&G appreciation tumblrs you know of? thanks!
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October 2011
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August 2011
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Finding Simon And Garfunkel's 'America' In... →
@NPRMusic interviewed Eric Schantz about the underground, grass-roots group Paint Saginaw, which was responsible for painting the lyrics to Simon and Garfunkel’s “America” around Saginaw, Michigan.
Michigan seems like a dream to me now…
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Related news articles:
“Anonymous artist explains motive for Simon and Garfunkel lyrics appearing on abandoned buildings...
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April 2011
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March 2011
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“Simon and Garfunkel were an oddly successful pairing. Like sour cream and onion.”
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Posted by Dave Nagel on Twitter.com
November 2010
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“I was conceived first. Paul was one month premature.”
– Art Garfunkel joshing whether Paul had outdone him.
Happy 69th Birthday, Art Garfunkel!
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Quote from The New Yorker article, “The King of Reading” by Nick Paumgarten, January 28, 2008. Read the full article.
October 2010
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Art Garfunkel's Reading Library
As October begins, this post honors National Book Month with Art Garfunkel’s reading list.
“[The Art] Garfunkel Library [is] a chronological index of the thousand and twenty-three books that he has read since June, 1968. He has been recording their particulars neatly on sheets of loose-leaf paper—forty or so titles to a page—for nearly forty years. About a decade ago, he posted the...
September 2010
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Hey-Hey-Hey… And Here's To You →
Coo-coo-ca-choo…
Questionable Content - “And Here’s To You” (comic #144)
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Online comic strip by Jeph Jacques
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What Simon & Garfunkel songs are really about…
Anita Miller: It's unfair that we can't listen to our music!
Elaine Miller: That's because it's music about drugs and promiscuous sex.
Anita Miller: Simon and Garfunkel is poetry!
Elaine Miller: Yes it's poetry. It's poetry of drugs and promiscuous sex. Honey, they're on pot.
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From the film 'Almost Famous', a comedy-drama written and directed by Cameron Crowe.
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April 2010
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A nation turns its troubled minds to Simon &...
Ken Shane, new music editor at Popdose, reflects on the American generation of the late 1960s latching onto Simon & Garfunkel’s Bookends (1968) and Mike Nichols’ film, The Graduate (1967) during a turbulent period in American history.
“The first side of Bookends is something of a concept. After opening with a portrait of a generation poised on the edge of a precipice...
March 2010
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For your listening pleasure, a DJ Earworm mashup...
February 2010
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Paul Simon Will Cameo at the We Are Plastic Ono... →
Yoko Ono and her band, Plastic Ono Band, will headline at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York City. With them is an “incredible, once-in-a-lifetime line-up” of Paul Simon, Harper Simon (Paul’s son), Eric Clapton, Sean Lennon (John and Yoko’s son), Bette Midler, Justin Bond, Cornelius, Kim Gordon, Yuka Honda, Haruomi Hosono, Jim Keltner, Thurston Moore, Mark...
January 2010
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Simon & Garfunkel to Headline the 2010 New Orleans...
“For a month, fans and potential customers of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival have been eyeing a big “artist TBA” on the schedule New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. That TBA has now been announced by the festival: the surprise act for the first of Jazz Fest’s two weekends, on April 24, will be the reunited Simon and Garfunkel. It’s not the first time that...
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Quoting a favorable review of Eva Cassidy’s...
December 2009
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November 2009
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Review of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 25th...
A fan by the name of “Rich” wrote up an insightful review of The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Concert - Day One. His full review is available in the comments section at: http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/10/30/rock-hall-fame-concert-springsteen-wonder-simon-garfunkel-csn/
Below is an excerpt of his review for the Paul Simon and Simon & Garfunkel portion of the...
October 2009
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Podcast interview with Art Garfunkel by...
September 2009
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Watch“Singing their hearts out and staring down the camera” Live in Holland, part 2 of 2
Simon & Garfunkel perform before a live audience for a TV broadcast in Haarlem, Holland. Taped in June of 1966 and re-broadcasted on August 12, 1966.
Simon continues the set with the origins of “A Most Peculiar Man” upon which the two sing the elegiac song. “A Poem On The...
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Watch“Singing their hearts out and staring down the camera” Live in Holland, part 1 of 2
Simon & Garfunkel perform before a live audience for a TV broadcast in Haarlem, Holland. Taped in June of 1966 and re-broadcasted on August 12, 1966.
In this first part, Simon opens the set with the all-familiar chords of “Anji” (by Davy Graham). Then the duo follows up with...
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Simon & Garfunkel's Live 1969 Album Podcasts →
Rita Houston from WFUV-FM in New York hosts the story of Simon & Garfunkel, from their early days in Queens, NY to their 1969 tour captured on the recently released live album, Live 1969.
In this podcast series from Legacy Podcasts, listeners will hear archival interview clips with Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel along with new comments by pop journalist Bud Scoppa. Listeners will also hear from...
August 2009
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