In 2001, Paul Simon He said upon being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: “I regret the end of our friendship. I hope that one day, before we die, we make peace. “There is no rush.” And finally, the turbulent waters of the relationship between Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel They seem to be calming down, according to what the second said in an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper on the occasion of the launch of his new duet album with his son, Art Garfunkel Jr, titled ‘Father and son’.
The meeting between the music legends was the first they have had “in many years,” says Garfunkel, who claims to have asked his former musical partner why they had not seen each other in so long. Simon told him it was because of “an old interview” in which Garfunkel made comments that he felt hurt by. “I cried when he told me how much I had hurt him,” Garfunkel recalled, without specifying which interview Simon was referring to. “Looking back, I guess I wanted to shake Simon & Garfunkel’s good-guy image. Do you know what? “I was a fool.”
After this reunion, the duo has made plans to see each other again so reunion rumors are already unleashed. «Will Paul bring his guitar? Who knows. For me, it was about wanting to make amends before it’s too late. It felt like we were back in a wonderful place. Now that I think about it, tears come to my eyes. “I can still feel his hug,” Garfunkel confesses about his old partner, leaving the door open to a joint return to the stage or even to the recording studios, which, Given how the meetings market is, it would mean a million-dollar business given the caliber of his legend.
In fact, even Art’s own son believes it’s possible. “They have had their ups and downs over the years, but after the meeting, dad was very happy,” he says in the same interview with Sunday Times. «He called me and said: ‘Paul is my brother; It’s family’. I think there is a possibility of them reuniting musically. I’m speaking hypothetically, but maybe at a big charity or television event. And with a little encouragement from his music industry colleagues, that could lead to new material.
Although it would be the most anticipated and most lucrative, this would not be their first meeting. «They already got together in 1981 for a big concert in New York’s Central Park, they did a world tour in 1982, and two others in 1993 and 2003. But when they finished they always continued fighting. The last time the duo performed together live was in 2010, when they participated in the AFI tribute to ‘The Graduate’ director Mike Nichols, who helped catapult them to stardom by including his music in the 1967 classic. In 2011 He reissued ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’, and it was four years later that Garfunkel said in an interview (which is probably what Simon was referring to): “How can you leave this lucky place at the top of the world, Paul? What’s wrong with you, idiot? How could you let it go, idiot? Simon replied: “Honestly, we don’t get along. “It’s not exactly fun to act together… So that won’t happen again.”
A success within the reach of very few
The figures generated by Simon & Garfunkel are among the largest in the history of the music industry. Although their debut album ‘Wednesday Morning, 3 AM’ (1964) failed to go on sale, one of its singles, ‘The Sound of Silence’, gradually caught on with the public and turned them into folk superstars. who released successful albums such as ‘Sounds of Silence’ (1966), ‘Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme’ (1966), ‘Bookends’ (1968) and ‘Bridge over Troubled Water’ (1970), which was released with the duo already separated.
Just a year later they won the Grammy Award for Best Album of the Year for ‘Bridge over Troubled Water’, but the breakup was already irreversible after five years of fights and disagreements that possibly began at the beginning of their relationship, when Paul Simon published a single solo under a pseudonym in 1964 with the songs ‘Carlos Domínguez’ / ‘He Was My Brother’: “The friendship was destroyed for life… I never forget, and I never truly forgive,” Garfunkel wrote in his memoirs.
The duo has won two more Grammys, in 1969 for the single ‘Mrs. Robinson’ from the soundtrack of ‘El Graduado’ and in 2003 in recognition of his entire career. In total they have sold more than one hundred million copies of their albums.
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