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This is from 1970 so my theory is they found out S&G were splitting up and couldn’t cope with this reminder LMAO

Who would like to adopt Simon & Garfunkel for free?

"Affectionate"

I would like the to add the way Paul speaks about Art in the second part of In restless dreams too. Specifically the bit where he talks about working with Art on Hearts and Bones (before his part got scrapped). Paul just seems so hurt about his relationship with Art and this is probably how he copes with it?

"We do not refer to Beatles songs as early Paul McCartney songs or early George Harrison songs. They are Beatles songs. (...) Rolling Stones songs are not referred to as Jagger's or Richards’s songs. Ray Davies wrote most of the Kinks’ songs but we do not call them early Ray Davies songs. The songs of Simon & Garfunkel were a collaborative effort, and are distinctly different from Paul Simon’s successful solo career. The works of Simon & Garfunkel have won many awards in the name of Simon & Garfunkel. They are in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in the name of Simon & Garfunkel." "Art Garfunkel was Paul Simon’s missing ingredient. Without him you’ve got smoke but not the explosion that was Simon & Garfunkel."

Thanks fuck somebody said this. Bravo.

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Do not allow Art Garfunkel to be written out of history

There was a magical time for modern music, loosely between 1955 and the end of the 20th century, yet a very small percentage of it will surv

i gotta talk….. something so crazy about paul simon and his relationship with his father and seeing a kid sing a song at a school recital when he was in grade school and deciding to ask him over to play music together and studying his mouth and the shape of it and the way it moves so you can sing just like him and having a fight with him and your father tells your best friend that he doesn’t like him very much. and you go off to school and find him again and remember that he is your oldest friend and you rekindle your friendship and then start on your future together and you sleep in hotel rooms with magic fingers and think what great fun to be so young and writing music and famous! and then he goes off to be an actor and you are so heartbroken you write a best selling album about it and then you break up your world famous act and he can’t understand why you would do it and then you hear his albums and think they’re just not him not even close so you write him a song and he suggests you do it together just like old times. then you rekindle your friendship and give the biggest concert Central Park has ever seen and then you get into such a vicious fight during the subsequent tour that you want to kill each other and then out of the blue you’re back together for a reunion tour decades later and you say you’re done fighting but you never call him back and you only begin to understand the relationship you had with your father when you’re older than you ever thought you’d be and have released what will be your likely last album that’s about dying and religion

the world is directing so much intolerable cruelty and unfairness towards the palestinian people to placate the israeli ego and soothe colonial anxieties, as though they haven't already been trying to rewrite history for 75 years. what makes them think it will work this time? don't they understand that history written in blood is even harder to erase than history written in press releases? do they plan to move on from 13,000 murdered children to a stronger and more secure israel? or are they too stupid to see they're ushering in a fragile and unstable world order of right-wing demagogues with overpowered militaries? that'll work out.

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the last waltz

(from the Paul Simon TV special, 1977)