April 2012
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“Unlike Simon, Garfunkel views the trials of growing older as part of a natural...”
– Perry Meisel on the distinction between Art Garfunkel’s inspiration for songs as compared to Paul Simon’s.
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Quote from the Meisel review of Garfunkel’s debut album, Angel Clare, in Fusion, March 1974.
Read the full review
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Angel Clare… Then & Now
In celebration of today’s release of Art Garfunkel’s retrospective The Singer, here is the Perry Meisel review of Garfunkel’s debut album, Angel Clare, from 1974.
Art Garfunkel Angel Clare Columbia KC 31474
So sweet and guileless is most of Art Garfunkel’s solo album that it shows where the real religion came from in the blend of pretense and purity that he produced over...
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March 2012
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February 2012
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January 2012
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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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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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July 2010
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May 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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