![]() To hear the full story, listen to the full podcast here. I don’t want to do this anymore,” said Simon. Garfunkel turned to film acting necrophilia is one of the things to which he stooped in that realm. They soon broke up, of course, Simon becoming the American McCartney with songs you couldn't get out of your head but had little meaning ('Kodachrome'). ![]() “I said, ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’ And he said, ‘I was afraid that you’d stop working on this if I told you.’ So that really pissed me off, and I just decided that’s the end of that. Enjoy their work now, in 1969, while you can. That’s not going to happen.’” What ended up killing the band dead was when Garfunkel took a role in the movie Carnal Knowledge and didn’t tell his bandmate. “So he said, ‘Well, the way I see it is I’ll do movies for six months, and you’ll write songs and then I’ll come back and then I’ll sing, you know, for six months.’ And I thought, ‘Yeah, the hell with that. Around the writing of Bridge Over Troubled Water, “Art went down for long periods of time to Mexico to shoot, and he wanted to be in the movies, as well as do ,” said Simon. The two would put out their first album as “Tom and Jerry” (see the “Tom” reference in the lyrics of “ Only Living Boy in New York“), had a minor hit with “Hey Schoolgirl,” and got on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand.īringing the band back to earth was the squabbling between Simon, who had become the duo’s main songwriter, and Garfunkel, who started distancing himself from his friend and bandmate. The Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films presents Simon & Garfunkel: Songs of America. Having grown up the son of a musician, it got him interested in singing himself. Fast-forward to the pair co-writing a song in 1955 at the age of 13, “ The Girl For Me,” which would end up becoming popular in their neighborhood and get them better gigs. Simon recounts meeting Garfunkel “in the fourth grade” in a school auditorium while “waiting for the school buses to come.” To pass the time, an impromptu “talent show” started, and Garfunkel stood up and sang “ They Tried to Tell Us We’re Too Young,” and blew everybody away. That is, until recently.Īs part of a CNN podcast hosted by David Axelrod, the former chief strategist for Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns, Simon dug deep into how Simon & Garfunkel initially formed, the height of their early fame, and the ugliness that led to their breakup. Soon after, Simon would dissolve the duo and start his own highly successful solo career, but the exact details of the breakup have long been avoided in interviews. But with great music, anecdotes etc it shouldn't stop fans or anyone for that matter to see this well made documentary.Legendary folk duo Simon & Garfunkel’s fifth and final album, Bridge Over Troubled Water, released in 1970, is marked by a number of plaintive, introspective Paul Simon ballads, including the sweeping title track (sung by Art Garfunkel), “The Boxer,” and “The Only Living Boy in New York.” The latter, written about Garfunkel’s extended absence from the group, as he was exploring an acting career, would be a harbinger for the end of the group. And why does the film not penetrate deeper into this subject? Well, Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel are both producers of this documentary and that gives it sometimes a feeling of promotional tool rather being a honest, sincere documentary. Biggest flaw of this film is the constant hinting of some deeper,conflict between the two but the documentary never explains exactly what. There is also stock footage from and old documentary directed by actor Charles Grodin, Simon and Garfunkel: Songs of America (1969), that gives the viewer some more deeper insights in to their relationship at that time. There are some great anecdotes from soundtechnicans working on the album, taped live performances, how they worked out harmonies and lyrics, how they developed certain songs on the album etc. ![]() ![]() And I wasn't disappointed, this documentary chronicles their live, professional career but focuses mainly on their work on the album Bridge Over Troubled Water. That said I was hoping to see some great behind the scenes footage from NYC with these two great performers. I always been a fan of Simon & Garfunkels music, whenever I'm down I listen to some of their works and pretend that I'm in a apartment somewhere in NYC and looking out on the NYC skyline. ![]()
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