![]() Prior to the Central Park show, Simon & Garfunkel butted heads about how the concert should be performed. Back in 1975, Simon & Garfunkel scored a Top 10 duet with "My Little Town" in 1975, with the song appearing on both Simon's album, Still Crazy After All These Years and Garfunkel's Breakaway. Although the duo had performed together several times after their 1970 break up - most notably at a fundraiser in 1972 for Democratic Presidential nominee George McGovern, a handful of times in 1973 during Simon's first solo tour, and on Saturday Night Live - The Concert In Central Park was Simon & Garfunkel's first full-blown reunion show. For more information, 20, was 39 years ago Saturday (September 19th, 1981) that Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited in front of a reported 500,000 fans for a free concert in New York's Central Park. What more could I want?”ĪRT GARFUNKEL appears Friday, May 13, at the Shubert Theatre, 247 College St., New Haven. “It’s about my love life, music and, well, everything. “It’s about the wonder of it all,” Garfunkel said. I’m very happy where I am now.”Ī look back is also in the works for Garfunkel, who is writing a memoir, which he believes will hit shelves during the fall of 2017. When I get onstage in New Haven, I’ll be in the present tense. ![]() You and I are suffering with Donald Trump together. You come to the show and you’ll forget about things for awhile. “I’ve fashioned a show that is very less is more. “I’m thrilled to be able to sing again and to be able to go out on a tour like this,” he said. Garfunkel isn’t concerned about a reunion tour or an acting gig. “If I’m going to do a film, it has to be right,” Garfunkel said. The same can be said for Garfunkel’s career as an actor, after receiving great reviews for his work in such films as 1971’s “Carnal Knowledge,” 1980’s “Bad Timing” and 2010’s “The Rebound.” “What we do isn’t about money,” Garfunkel said. So it’s doubtful that the pair will reunite once more. I know he’s a proud papa and his wife (Edie Brickell) has a Broadway show (‘Bright Star’).” We have mutual friends but I don’t know what’s going on. ![]() I haven’t spoken with him in quite awhile now, not a year but many months. It’s hardly a secret that the duo, who met as children in 1953, are not on good terms. However, Simon and Garfunkel have spent more time apart than together since their 1970 breakup, which occurred at their commercial peak. Can you be there Thursday night? You show up and sing a song that you love, an old Everly Brothers song.’ I would say, ‘Great.’ If we could leave out the personalities, we would have a beautifully recorded session.” If somebody called me and said, ‘I booked a singer in the studio, you know him well, he’s from your childhood, his name is Paul Simon. It’s not that easy for two human beings to mesh like two voices. “The human beings have personalities, flaws, sticky points. “Unfortunately our delightful blend of voices live inside human beings, who are much messier than two beautiful voices,” Garfunkel explained. But will the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers come back for another jaunt to sing those timeless classics that sound like a soundtrack to New York circa 1968? Garfunkel was of course being facetious, but a few months later after a surprise performance at the Grammys, Simon and Garfunkel announced that they were reuniting for a tour.
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