The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Simon & Garfunkel

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  • @GrungeHQ
    @GrungeHQ  4 роки тому +168

    What's your favorite song by Simon & Garfunkel?

    • @TheSurvivalDude723
      @TheSurvivalDude723 4 роки тому +76

      The sound of silence

    • @cannonross9907
      @cannonross9907 4 роки тому +24

      @Grunge ''Keep the Customer Satisfied''

    • @edwardlagrossa1246
      @edwardlagrossa1246 4 роки тому +86

      The Boxer

    • @twiggyman90
      @twiggyman90 4 роки тому +7

      Would I lie to you just amazing, also have plan b's take on this track with the rapping hes also a beautiful singer believe it or not

    • @DanielAspajo9930
      @DanielAspajo9930 4 роки тому +33

      El Condor Pasa, no I mean "If I could"

  • @nrich5127
    @nrich5127 4 роки тому +821

    I don't see tragedy .. just life ... their music lives on and remains a beautiful legacy ....

    • @Vinniegret
      @Vinniegret 4 роки тому +27

      LOL, yeah, but no one would click for "not such a bad life."

    • @IanJames_4
      @IanJames_4 4 роки тому +41

      It's tragic that whoever posted this video needed to use the word tragic to increase traffic to their channel instead of another word that reflects more accurately what the video is about.

    • @stevenyoung7163
      @stevenyoung7163 4 роки тому +32

      They obviously needed each other at different times in their lives and for different things.
      We should all be pleased and honoured that in the times they were together they created some of the most iconic music for us all to enjoy.

    • @12cyberninja
      @12cyberninja 3 роки тому +5

      Indeed my
      Friend

    • @ianmangham4570
      @ianmangham4570 3 роки тому +14

      Everything is tragic with this channel lmao

  • @wendywarrior2264
    @wendywarrior2264 4 роки тому +254

    No matter what, they made beautiful music together. Perfect harmony!

  • @runwei_1999
    @runwei_1999 4 роки тому +411

    Probably the best folk music duo of all time

    • @dynamicvoltage9765
      @dynamicvoltage9765 3 роки тому +12

      probably!? Who comes close?

    • @bobz9297
      @bobz9297 3 роки тому +4

      Definitely THE Best, according to my Wife, Mina, and I.

    • @peacemonger766
      @peacemonger766 3 роки тому +6

      Actually Peter, Paul & Mary were the best Folk. Simon & Garfunkel started a new venue - Folk Rock - at that they were, indeed, the best!

    • @DUANEYAISER
      @DUANEYAISER 3 роки тому +3

      @@peacemonger766 Yes, but, trio.

    • @DUANEYAISER
      @DUANEYAISER 3 роки тому +7

      @@dynamicvoltage9765 Everly Brothers may be in the ballpark . . . If only for being an influence on S & G.

  • @caroljo420
    @caroljo420 3 роки тому +55

    Their harmony was unbelievably perfect. Absolutely incredible! I miss that.

  • @terryjackson8773
    @terryjackson8773 3 роки тому +27

    To me they will always be Simon and Garfunkel. Their music is timeless.

  • @satyajitganguly3135
    @satyajitganguly3135 4 роки тому +24

    Since 70's with the sound of silence, I got addicted to S&G and still today I love to hear them !!!

  • @ulrichschnier307
    @ulrichschnier307 3 роки тому +116

    I flew in from Germany to Los Angeles to attend a concert of S&G's 2003 "Old Friends" reunion tour. I will NEVER forget this night singing along my musical heroes for more than three decades with tears in my eyes.

    • @jillcanfield8873
      @jillcanfield8873 3 роки тому +11

      I was at that concert!

    • @greatdane813
      @greatdane813 2 роки тому +1

      I, too, was at that concert tour, but in Tampa. I even have on my "Old Friends" baseball shirt today.

  • @Ant-ls2pr
    @Ant-ls2pr 4 роки тому +205

    Not tragic, just gifted and strong willed.

    • @ronaldjones9767
      @ronaldjones9767 2 роки тому +4

      I agree, their story is short of a tragedy. Just lots of misunderstandings and hurt feelings about egos and money and who gets the credit.

  • @joekavanagh7171
    @joekavanagh7171 4 роки тому +86

    Whether they ever get together or not, their music will live forever, and their names will be intertwined for all eternity

  • @pasbert4812
    @pasbert4812 4 роки тому +37

    The very best harmonious grassroots folk duo ever, so many brilliant artists in all genres seem tormented lost souls in real life . Fame and money rarely equal happiness . Their music is iconic and cultural , it always takes me back to places and people from the early 70's when they were part of everyones record collection.

  • @warrenlehmkuhleii8472
    @warrenlehmkuhleii8472 3 роки тому +47

    I grew up in this century, and man, I love Simon and Garfunkel.
    There music is timeless.

  • @theprior46
    @theprior46 3 роки тому +38

    They were the "sound" of an era. Simon shouldn't feel guilt in his old age - they both gave their all really and they don't owe the world anything more. We should let them gracefully back off and let us keep their wonderful legacy.

  • @dave822
    @dave822 4 роки тому +194

    Will you stop putting 'Tragic' in your titles you clickbaiter!

    • @MICKEYDELFINO
      @MICKEYDELFINO 3 роки тому +5

      It sells better lol

    • @berndheiden7630
      @berndheiden7630 3 роки тому +3

      And in this case it is also true. They are 5 years older than I am, so in 1966 I was in my senior year in High School when Sound of Silence was hot, they have been an important part of my life and I can still hear them and experience the feelings of my youth. And when you realize that all that brought just trouble, disturbance, depression in their individual and professional life that is truly tragic. They have given so much to the audience and got so little for their own comfort (and I am not talking about money, cars and houses)-

  • @kropchik
    @kropchik 4 роки тому +10

    Two people who never give up and re invent themselves. Nothing more than admiration.

  • @dalehall2067
    @dalehall2067 4 роки тому +30

    I will never forget the music and I grew up with these guys are wonderful

  • @tonyjedioftheforest1364
    @tonyjedioftheforest1364 3 роки тому +7

    I have loved their music since the early 70’s, one of the greatest, if not the greatest duo’s ever. I just wish that they had kept together and released more.

  • @likable72
    @likable72 4 роки тому +8

    The greatest duo of all time and my favorite since I discovered them in the early 60’s to the present . I just hope that in spite of their turmoil and hits and misses; they are still my best.

  • @pooyab01
    @pooyab01 3 роки тому +150

    The title is misleading. I'm sorry, tragically misleading.

  • @rtg1960
    @rtg1960 4 роки тому +19

    And the live version of Kathy’s Song. Superb! I was at the Concert in Central Park in 1981 and it was something I’ll never forget.

  • @Elphaba1952
    @Elphaba1952 2 роки тому +16

    They had the exquisite harmony usually only found in siblings, and they were, and remain, the sound of my generation.💗

  • @kgalalelonnesiengmonthe3370
    @kgalalelonnesiengmonthe3370 4 роки тому +6

    The earliest duo I ever knew. Beautiful harmony and too many songs to choose from.

  • @Ettibridget
    @Ettibridget 4 роки тому +15

    They have had their fights, but now where they are both getting old, I hope they have made peace with each other. Once and for all.

  • @alanaadams7440
    @alanaadams7440 4 роки тому +12

    Bridge over troubled water my favorite. They both need to give up their pride and reconcile. Not many people have friends that long. It's a gift

  • @marklowe7431
    @marklowe7431 3 роки тому +94

    Their music will never have an expiry date.

  • @debraaguilar3614
    @debraaguilar3614 3 роки тому +61

    The sound of silence is prophetic.
    We are almost there now.

    • @lucaa.6406
      @lucaa.6406 3 роки тому +2

      I’m 14 and this is deep

    • @plan4life
      @plan4life 3 роки тому +1

      @@mike62mcmanus What exactly are you on (about) ?

    • @brythonicman3267
      @brythonicman3267 3 роки тому

      @@mike62mcmanus Kindred spirit

  • @bobjames2085
    @bobjames2085 3 роки тому +8

    I just don't understand why people can't get along? Most musicians would kill to have a career like they had! Let alone written a song like Bridge over troubled water, and perform it like they did! But they will always be loved! S&G will live forever! Love you guys!!

  • @katarinakrnjevic8183
    @katarinakrnjevic8183 Рік тому +7

    Simon and Garfunkel are living legends . They wrote and sing their own music which not many new artis do today.

  • @GentlemanAmerican
    @GentlemanAmerican 4 роки тому +90

    "The Boxer" is my favorite Simon & Garfunkel song. It is a masterpiece and epic recording. Even though they have a turbulent relationship, I believe they are still friends. How could they not be after so many years?

    • @douggodfrey6521
      @douggodfrey6521 4 роки тому +12

      " Time it was and what a time it was -"

    • @Anna-Gunilla1792
      @Anna-Gunilla1792 4 роки тому +7

      Yeah Love the Boxer!

    • @panzerlambert1194
      @panzerlambert1194 4 роки тому +2

      @@douggodfrey6521 One of my most favorite songs they ever did. That song grabs at my heart strings as much now as the first time I heard it

    • @lynnmursko2303
      @lynnmursko2303 4 роки тому

      What's your favorite song by Simon & Garfunkel?

    • @mariaangelagaino6876
      @mariaangelagaino6876 3 роки тому +1

      My favourite song is The Boxer

  • @billspooks
    @billspooks 4 роки тому +13

    I am just happy they gave us all as much as they did.

  • @napynap
    @napynap 4 роки тому +8

    What a legacy! My favorite is Sounds of Silence. Not because it's popular, but I love the harmonies, and then a couple of years ago, I got to learn how to play and sing it with another musician. During our rehearsals, we tried to understand what the song was really saying. After diagnosing every line, we determined the song is not about being silent, but about speaking up about things that matter to us all. That was happening among the public when it the song became known, and applies in today's era much the same way. Thanks for the video!

  • @canislupis3129
    @canislupis3129 4 роки тому +34

    I attended Paul’s last show of his final tour at MSG. It was incredible. He had so many standing ovations and he was very humble about it. It was really something to stand there watching him and his band give their very best knowing this was it. It was an incredibly rare moment that aligned everyone’s mind together.

  • @Gandalf606
    @Gandalf606 4 роки тому +17

    Paul Simon inspired me to learn the guitar. I love so many of his songs. My favourite is Kathy's Song, with The Boxer a close second.

  • @normanbates569
    @normanbates569 3 роки тому +16

    They have never been tragic; they are magic.

  • @avdavey
    @avdavey 4 роки тому +58

    I worked for both of them. Art Garfunkel was by far the biggest diva I’ve ever come across on the road. To say he was difficult is an understatement. However, the show he gave was stellar!

    • @cameroncashhopkins7682
      @cameroncashhopkins7682 3 роки тому +2

      Can you elaborate? I always had that opinion but nevet had any proof.

    • @averayugen8462
      @averayugen8462 2 роки тому +2

      He sounded like an angel on Troubled Waters, I for one could never fall out of love with him after that. Sometimes the persona of a pop star is different from their true life, but they can "get" as well as have both sides and both were gracious enough with their audiences......

  • @ingridwheeler3180
    @ingridwheeler3180 3 роки тому +12

    Paul Simon's voice is a gift to us all.

  • @oliverrojas7117
    @oliverrojas7117 4 роки тому +48

    There music is so beautiful it is very hard to believe we still do not listen to it today in stores or on the radio. It is hard to understand and believe this music is generational. The interesting texture of the arrangement of the instruments with the depth of the lyrics leaves a person like myself who is sappy and has not always seen life with a clear lens spell bound and mystified.

    • @allimonybaba4195
      @allimonybaba4195 4 роки тому +8

      they don't write songs like that anymore

    • @rubycooper5922
      @rubycooper5922 3 роки тому +1

      @@allimonybaba4195 but don’t let that stop you looking for new talents, people have said the same thing every decade but classics have kept on coming

    • @RosesTeaAndASD
      @RosesTeaAndASD 3 роки тому

      There are some amazing covers though, which is some consolation.

  • @metteholm4833
    @metteholm4833 4 роки тому +34

    UA-cam! Do you seriously believe, that interrupting ads - often in the middle of a musical highlight - make people interested in those wretched products, they are trying to sell? NO! The ads are intrusive, loud, over energetic and directly off-putting! Drop them - make extra money elsewhere!

    • @happyduckman1
      @happyduckman1 4 роки тому +1

      pay the 10 bucks a month its well worth nothing in life is free really commercials are intolerable i agree

    • @stevehall5299
      @stevehall5299 3 роки тому +1

      Exactly, it's nauseating

    • @benjibeal1
      @benjibeal1 3 роки тому +1

      They don't want you to buy the products, they make their money regardless! :P

  • @jacquelinewatson8491
    @jacquelinewatson8491 3 роки тому +187

    This word tragic; I don't think it means what you think it does.

    • @cgate615
      @cgate615 3 роки тому +5

      I thought a few people died!

    • @yesyes...
      @yesyes... 3 роки тому +1

      @Mary Purcell tragic usually involves death

    • @qqw743
      @qqw743 3 роки тому

      Inconceivable.

    • @Yourmomgoestocolledge
      @Yourmomgoestocolledge Рік тому

      Welcome to 2023, the year of made up words and the misuse of others.

    • @jillmccandless403
      @jillmccandless403 Рік тому

      It seems inconceivable 😉

  • @viviencockle2116
    @viviencockle2116 4 роки тому +108

    Just loved their music, the best ever.

  • @TheFamousRleon
    @TheFamousRleon 4 роки тому +5

    I’ve listen to their songs since January and I still get fascinated by their music.

  • @Sameoldfitup
    @Sameoldfitup 4 роки тому +64

    “Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.

  • @harmoniabalanza
    @harmoniabalanza 4 роки тому +6

    The Concert In Central Park is an incredible film. Gets way under your skin. So telling, such great msuic.

  • @lucyosullivanrsc7782
    @lucyosullivanrsc7782 4 роки тому +5

    Two most talented gentlemen. There music was always inspirational. Super talented musicians. My thanks to both Paul Such man & Garfunkel. Always wonderful and heart warming music and songs.

  • @dianemcclary5706
    @dianemcclary5706 3 роки тому +6

    I absolutely love you Paul Simon. Love to hear your voice. Brings my spirits up every day! And helps me sleep at night. If only!

  • @inyourdreams3997
    @inyourdreams3997 2 роки тому +2

    Methinks , the BEST duo of the 60s ,, I love ALL their songs !!!

  • @criscross1656
    @criscross1656 4 роки тому +59

    It's hard to choose with these guys....I like all their songs. I guess: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and "Sounds of Silence" 👍🎶🎸

    • @ryanmarsden6534
      @ryanmarsden6534 4 роки тому +4

      hello Darkness my old friend

    • @criscross1656
      @criscross1656 4 роки тому +3

      @@ryanmarsden6534 "Sounds of Silence".

    • @scottmatznick6461
      @scottmatznick6461 4 роки тому +4

      Man I can't stand Bridge. It's so smarmy. Check the full version of Scarborough Fair. It's otherworldly.

    • @q4991
      @q4991 3 роки тому

      Seriously, man.....IF yer a 'Fan', You 'Like' da music, hey? *You must Dig a touch Deeper, and Appreciate the Many, many other 'Treasures' beyond those "Overplayed" Hits.

    • @PuppetDreams
      @PuppetDreams 3 роки тому +1

      Yes! Love America, too though. Hard choice. :)

  • @KathyVanTil-s6c
    @KathyVanTil-s6c 7 місяців тому +2

    The most incredible and interesting duo that you can imagine..😊

  • @nbenefiel
    @nbenefiel 4 роки тому +40

    I saw S&G at the beginning and end of their careers and several times in between, always magical.

  • @scottabelli3406
    @scottabelli3406 4 роки тому +7

    I saw Simon and Garfunkel in early 1967 at the Carousel theater in West Covina, Ca. on the same bill with the Buckinghams. It was a small kind of circle theater and I got a seat (about $5 as I recall) about a couple rows back from the stage They just blew me away with their sounds --loved it. They took a break and I was in the lobby and saw Art by himself leaning against the wall having a smoke. I walked and chatted with him a bit before some girls saw him and that was it. But, I witnessed their true music talent that night, before they moved on to the big time.

    • @miamimartin2195
      @miamimartin2195 2 роки тому

      Wow, i live in West Covina now!! Where was/is that theater. I sometimes go to the Covina Theater in downtown Covina.

  • @mallorymaybe666
    @mallorymaybe666 4 роки тому +94

    And a rock feels no pain
    And an island never cries

    • @asif42224
      @asif42224 3 роки тому +6

      No doubt, they were poets, especially Paul.

  • @ray_ayy
    @ray_ayy 4 роки тому +31

    I went to one of Paul Simon’s reunion tour concerts in 2018... it was a beautiful experience. I would love to see Artie perform, but I fear that time is running out. I hope they both live to see a better time than the one we’re having now.

    • @noeldsouza412
      @noeldsouza412 3 роки тому +2

      For me...it's the other way round...saw Artie perform live @ Glastonbury 2016, I was right in front singing along...would love to see Paul Simon, I'll be 69 in December...hoping for a reunion🎼☮️❤🇮🇳

    • @ctakitimu
      @ctakitimu Рік тому

      @@noeldsouza412 I saw Snoop Dogg 🤣

  • @ahuddleston6512
    @ahuddleston6512 4 роки тому +12

    I love Simon and Garfunkel and I was a kid of the 90's.

  • @sonnyoram-jones6612
    @sonnyoram-jones6612 4 місяці тому +1

    The greatest duo in music history
    nobody can change that

  • @gcschoo
    @gcschoo 2 роки тому +4

    It is just life...With great songs and people still singing and enjoying now

  • @cherylb2008
    @cherylb2008 4 роки тому +13

    Sound of silence. For some reason the song America gets to me. It brings a strange feeling of loss of past culture and nostalgia.

  • @nuuausalaropati2194
    @nuuausalaropati2194 3 роки тому +2

    Two of the Best Singers of All Time..luv their Music and Sound...

  • @gordonlittle162
    @gordonlittle162 4 роки тому +9

    Wonderful music, never forgotten.

  • @bretbowman2007
    @bretbowman2007 3 роки тому +9

    "The Boxer" will always make me cry hardest, though "Bridge Over Troubled Water" is without peer.

  • @abalamdepaimon6891
    @abalamdepaimon6891 3 роки тому +10

    Pauls' Graceland album is still one of my favorites. Such good vibes and fantastic music !

    • @greenbeagle13
      @greenbeagle13 3 роки тому +1

      It’s not my favorite, but I live it. So glad he didn’t listen to all the critics that jumped on him when he was making those awesome music with the musicians in Africa.

    • @thugger-vandross
      @thugger-vandross 5 місяців тому

      graceland an absolute masterpiece

  • @mistymoo608
    @mistymoo608 3 роки тому +9

    Happy Birthday Paul Simon such an amazing talent 80 years old today

  • @bozotheclown935
    @bozotheclown935 4 роки тому +14

    Some things just have to end.
    What they did was great ...
    I remember them in the 60's...
    But this is not the 60's anymore...
    Everytime I see "The Graduate" the song is integral to the movie and brings back a lot of memories..
    Don't worry about getting together again..
    Let the greatness stand..

  • @pederlettstroem980
    @pederlettstroem980 3 роки тому +3

    Interesting video, snd partly a sad story. But their legacy of wonderful music will remain. And their music will until I die, to be a part of my life. Mostly the music with them together - Simon and Garfulnkel music.

  • @janetecarin4873
    @janetecarin4873 3 роки тому +6

    If a friendship is turbulent and produces this kind of music 🎶 then I supposed is really not bad at all,
    Thank you for both and their individuality.

    • @pauldavid8445
      @pauldavid8445 3 роки тому

      Hello 👋

    • @pauldavid8445
      @pauldavid8445 3 роки тому

      Nice comments.
      I must confess you're so beautiful 😍💗
      Hope you're doing great??

  • @lordbyron3603
    @lordbyron3603 3 роки тому +6

    Two years ago, a friend of mine played a song from Art Garfunkel’s “Some Enchanted Evening” album. It was an instant love affair! I hadn’t listen to any of their songs in decades so I didn’t know who the artist was until he told me. The songs and Art’s voice is a perfect match.

  • @y1521t21b5
    @y1521t21b5 4 роки тому +4

    Geniuses. Gifts to humankind and I bet many other sentient beings appreciate their music.

  • @aydinbekoglu
    @aydinbekoglu 3 роки тому +24

    They acted like spoiled school children, however God bless them for their music. Artists can be tortured, different... This is the price for creating unforgettable pieces of art...

  • @malalachernobyl5594
    @malalachernobyl5594 3 роки тому +4

    Amazing characters. I have been their fan since late 60s. Three of their albums are among my precious possessions.

  • @mesisson
    @mesisson 4 роки тому +14

    We might not even know about them, had it not been for producer Tom Wilson, who overdubbed The Sound of Silence with electric instruments, turning the track into a #1 pop hit, helping to launch the folk-rock genre. Simon and Garfunkel, who had already split, re-united after the hit, and the rest is history.

  • @werewolflover8636
    @werewolflover8636 2 роки тому +5

    The 1960’s? They’re one of the greatest selling artists of ALL TIME!

  • @linavidal211
    @linavidal211 3 роки тому +3

    they performed beautifully together & Paul Simon can still say they "agree on nothing?"
    much as I admire him, I am saddened.

  • @cjjones258
    @cjjones258 4 роки тому +148

    Hello Darkness, my old friend...

    • @erikadlloyd5586
      @erikadlloyd5586 4 роки тому +20

      @@differentmillennial1238 Because a vision softly creeping
      Left its seeds while I was sleeping

    • @Johnny53kgb-nsa
      @Johnny53kgb-nsa 4 роки тому +6

      You folks nailed it! That's my favorite, how could it not be?

    • @pingyu5141
      @pingyu5141 4 роки тому +5

      @@Johnny53kgb-nsa And in the naked light i saw... ten thousand people maybe more

    • @themodestai9603
      @themodestai9603 3 роки тому +1

      @@pingyu5141 And whispered in the sound of silence

    • @PatriFerri
      @PatriFerri 3 роки тому

      @@pingyu5141... hear my words that I might teach you...take my arms that I might reach you...

  • @kevinbergin9971
    @kevinbergin9971 4 роки тому +84

    Tragic? If my life was only this tragic.

    • @18661873
      @18661873 4 роки тому +3

      I too have a tough time extending any sympathy.

    • @horseyhorselips3501
      @horseyhorselips3501 4 роки тому

      My life is so tragic I have a Daughter 46 years old and I’ve never been allowed to know her and the guy she calls her father in public is the guy that gave me his sisters hand in marriage at an LRY Conference in Toronto Canada 🇨🇦

    • @horseyhorselips3501
      @horseyhorselips3501 4 роки тому

      She is from 4,447 miles Northwest of where I live and her first CD 💿 called Pieces of You and Song Foolish Games is a song about me and I’m the Strange Fruit 🍎 that fell in her song Enter from the East

  • @paulisa100
    @paulisa100 4 роки тому +7

    Merci pour la vidéo avec la traduction, c'est rare!... pour nous les Français! 😉 j'ai adoré le duo dès leur début, en suite j'ai suivi toute la carrière de Paul Simon ( pas facile quand on habite à des milliers de kilomètres ). Dans la période S&G mes chansons préférées sont American Tune, Bridge over troubled water, The Boxer... Mais Paul Simon nous a offert de véritables joyaux, pas une semaine, pas une journée sans une de ses chansons. Pour moi , c'est le meilleur Auteur-Compositeur-Interprète. Concernant leur mésentente, peut-être qu'elle était nécessaire ? Nous n'aurions pas eu le plaisir d'écouter Graceland, The Rhythm of The Saints... Une dernière petite chose, j'ai beaucoup aimé l'album One-Trick Pony surtout Jonah et j'ai toujours une pensée pour Richard Tee 🌹.

  • @myrianvalenzuela9199
    @myrianvalenzuela9199 Рік тому +2

    Well they are human beings like us, who can judge them, life has many ups and downs. We just enjoy their music so much but behind their songs is another story to tell

  • @alexcarter8807
    @alexcarter8807 4 роки тому +7

    My dad (silent generation) bought all their records! Ostensibly for my oldest sis but he dug the music 10X as much as she ever did.

    • @plan4life
      @plan4life 3 роки тому

      Silent generation? What does that mean?

    • @lesliegoodman-malamuth9796
      @lesliegoodman-malamuth9796 3 роки тому +1

      @@plan4life Those were the generation before baby boomers, people who came of age in the Fifties.

  • @johngraves6878
    @johngraves6878 2 роки тому +5

    These guys are near and dear to my heart, even though I never met them or even saw them perform in person. It's a strange phenomenon, our electronic media age. We all must understand that for any projects with a high public profile, and associated with considerable fame, that jealousy is endemic, normal, and routine. The higher profile the media, the greater the jealousy.

  • @lisakoehler8502
    @lisakoehler8502 3 роки тому +7

    It is tragic that 2 ppl who made magic with their harmonizing could no longer work together. They are great separately but they were magic together!

    • @debbietoornman5780
      @debbietoornman5780 3 роки тому +2

      I can't imagine how their success affected their lives for good and bad. I'm sure there are parts of the story will be private forever, as it should be. Not everything needs to be public knowledge.

  • @clairebazinet9988
    @clairebazinet9988 4 роки тому +1

    Loved Simon & Garfunkel songs and music singing together, since arriving in NYC in 1960. Sorry that they lost each other, and the way to actually enjoy music and do what made them happy, together.

  • @rixx46
    @rixx46 4 роки тому +11

    Smoking pot qualifies as a DRUG PROBLEM ? They were rock stars form the 50s through the 80s! Nearly everyone else is dead!

    • @q4991
      @q4991 3 роки тому

      Yeh! In Canada, legal now, 'They' still have 'Dumb Labels' on everything. Warning: "Psychotic episodes ...*possible* , Warning: People who do Weed every day, Usually develop 'Social Problems'....Et cetera, blah, blah....idunno, but 'i' Do Not believe Most of it is remotely True!

  • @HiThereImFootloose
    @HiThereImFootloose 3 роки тому +24

    I’m guessing Art Garfunkel’s 2020 concert schedule also did not go as he had planned.

  • @annamarcaletti1025
    @annamarcaletti1025 3 роки тому +5

    THEY HAVE HAD A GOOD LIFE THEY ARE BLESSED BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ❤️❤️

  • @ideas5663
    @ideas5663 3 роки тому +27

    Artists are like other humans, with problems and joy. They are called "Stars" but beter to call them " humans with talent"

    • @gustavoberggren5250
      @gustavoberggren5250 3 роки тому

      Uu

    • @gustavoberggren5250
      @gustavoberggren5250 3 роки тому

      Uuu

    • @yeetusdeletus4304
      @yeetusdeletus4304 3 роки тому +4

      Yes saying they are stars places them on a pedestal. A star is literally millions of miles away from us. It puts us in a position where it feels as tho they're better than us and we can never catch up to them that they are too far away and unreachable.

    • @ideas5663
      @ideas5663 3 роки тому +1

      @@yeetusdeletus4304 True

  • @edgardobravo7351
    @edgardobravo7351 4 роки тому +3

    Relationships are never too easy, but S&G left a beautiful legacy for us to enjoy.

  • @dwaynes5983
    @dwaynes5983 2 роки тому

    Everybody needs to see The Simon Garfunkel Story. Seen them at Westbury NY. Just great.

  • @marcob4630
    @marcob4630 4 роки тому +16

    Both are genies and as almost all genius people they have big troubles in life. Anyway one of the greates duo ever, if not the best of all time!

    • @rainbowbridge2634
      @rainbowbridge2634 3 роки тому +4

      100% agree with you!

    • @marcob4630
      @marcob4630 3 роки тому +1

      @@rainbowbridge2634 : thanks, my friend!

    • @rainbowbridge2634
      @rainbowbridge2634 3 роки тому +2

      @@marcob4630 you re right. It s the best duo ever👍👍👍

    • @marcob4630
      @marcob4630 3 роки тому +1

      @@rainbowbridge2634 indeed!

    • @rainbowbridge2634
      @rainbowbridge2634 3 роки тому +1

      @@marcob4630 yeah! But what is extremelly sad is all hapiness, best music, freedom, carefree, etc.. are over with this plandemic. I was 14 when i used to listen to this duo 24/24. Makes me cry. We were very happy at that time. At that time they made my life a dream... 😭😭😭. Now my life is a nightmare. And you what do you feel inside? Friendship.

  • @whitethunder123
    @whitethunder123 2 роки тому +2

    Simon is not grown up yet!! Forgiveness is a great gift. 💞 Love there songs. I 🙏 he can do it 🌈😘

  • @ponykarr1396
    @ponykarr1396 3 роки тому +13

    I've loved Simon and Garfunkel since I was a kid back in the early 70s.
    Just never understood why Simon felt the need to make snarky public remarks. No need to be a douche.

  • @anthonyhendricks7377
    @anthonyhendricks7377 3 роки тому +1

    My mother did payroll for a small town factory. When she picked me up after school she said we were going back into town to the music shop. There was a song that played over the radio that day. Bridge Over Troubled Water! It was the first time our local station had ever played it. She bought the album, and started my love for Simon and Garfunkel. I was 8 at the time.

  • @johnmckiernan987
    @johnmckiernan987 4 роки тому +60

    Became a multimillionaire...such a tragedy!

  • @dinocardamone9586
    @dinocardamone9586 4 роки тому +1

    Absolutely the most completely inclusive, deep and meaningful 15 min summation of s&g i've ever seen.

  • @antjoshwww
    @antjoshwww 4 роки тому +39

    They had fame and fortune and lived lives full. Not tragic at all maybe ordinary life is

    • @markdoherty3024
      @markdoherty3024 4 роки тому +2

      Fame and fortune isn’t everything

    • @jadezee6316
      @jadezee6316 4 роки тому +2

      @@markdoherty3024 its better to have it than not...certainly it isnt tragic...

  • @barbaraconnett5057
    @barbaraconnett5057 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you both for your wonderful sounds !

  • @anitarichmond8930
    @anitarichmond8930 4 роки тому +7

    Big fan, love love love the album Graceland🎶

    • @q4991
      @q4991 3 роки тому +4

      Paul Simon has done Great things, notably 'Graceland' , 1987. Garfunkel had Very little input besides 'Harmony singing'. Paul 'Wrote it, Played it, Sang it, Created it' especially Afterwards.

    • @thugger-vandross
      @thugger-vandross 5 місяців тому +1

      ⁠@@q4991comparing the talents of Art to Paul just isn’t fair..
      A more appropriate comparison would be Paul’s left pinky

  • @cherylbowker7664
    @cherylbowker7664 3 роки тому +2

    I saw both Simon &Garfunkel separately . Both were AWESOME!!!!

  • @Morten_Nielsen1979
    @Morten_Nielsen1979 3 роки тому +5

    Damn, I wish I had a life as tragic as these two.

  • @foto21
    @foto21 2 роки тому +1

    I'm an older Gen X and I record and play music and I was thinking tonight about the earliest records I'm aware of really listening to 10-11 or so because I bought my first album and 45s at 12 or 13. What was in my mom's record collection were the first albums I was conscious of. Two seminal groups, Mamas and Papas: If you Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears, and Simon and Garfunkel's SOunds of SIlence and Parsley, Sage had the musical seeds that were planted in my brain and still remain - ha ha.
    SImon's songs include such mind-blowing genius melodies, plus he nailed the lyrics far beyond the chance of a billion people. Most songs this good are written by two people, but SImon nailed them, and Garfunkel did a great job singing them. The Boxer alone is such an incredible statement. That kind of talent is so unwordly, you have to talk about conduits, because even Simon can't understand how he did it.

  • @marthas8108
    @marthas8108 3 роки тому +13

    I loved this duo and try to keep an open mind about what happened. But I can't find an instance of Garfunkel saying anything negative about Simon -- instead, he seems to have thanked him often and generously. On the other hand, Simon has made a number of negative comments about his old partner. I'm not taking sides here -- if anyone can correct my impression I'd be happy to hear it.

    • @marywallace4086
      @marywallace4086 3 роки тому +8

      Martha S, I read that Paul was jealous that Art got a huge standing ovation for Bridge and said "I wrote that song" to the interviewer. I love that Paul was a genius but he could never have performed Bridge as well as Art did and I think it must have hurt his ego. Short men are usually insecure and I can attest to that. Art was probably 6ft but the years have shortened him. I feel sure there are regrets on both sides but their amazing duets still overshadow any bitterness between them.

    • @marthas8108
      @marthas8108 3 роки тому +5

      @@marywallace4086 Kind of ironic that one could write "Bridge Over Troubled Water," the other could sing it beautifully, but that the two of them together couldn't bridge the troubled waters of their own relationship. Sad.

  • @kevinbergin9971
    @kevinbergin9971 3 роки тому +2

    I was at the reunion concert in 1981 at Central Park. Garfunkel also paid tribute to Simon giving him great songs to sing.

  • @HornetKingOfficial
    @HornetKingOfficial 3 роки тому +7

    Why was there a picture of Paul McCartney in this?? 10:21