It bothers me a little that a lot of my favorite songs are by creeps. Then again who knows for sure?
“Kodachrome” is one swinging song.
WHAT a surprise!!!
I once worked with a sound guy who had worked on a Paul Simon tour... He didn’t have a good word to say about the guy either.
I read the article this morning, and though I feel you’re basically telling the truth, I also feel you’re stretching it a bit. JMO.
How many times have people used this phrase and meant it hyperbolicly?
Also, it is the interviewer that suggests that Simon has a Napoleon complex and Garfunkel kinda sorta agrees with that as a possibility.
Does anyone know how to write honest headlines anymore?
No, Art Garfunkel did not call him that. The reporter did, and Garfunkel said, “maybe”.
“Mother and Child Reunion” rocks to this day.
I can’t visualize either of them (and I checked out their photo at the link) plus I can’t name or remember any of their songs, except that I didn’t like any of them.
We’d like to know a little bit about you for our files
We’d like to help you learn to help yourself.
Look around you all you see are sympathetic eyes,
Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home.
I guess short people are popular song writers.
I’ll still love “Obvious Child” regardless of Simon’s issues.
Garfunkel recently performed in our local theatre, and my son was in the audio crew.
My son called him a number of names, most of which were related to body parts and none of which indicated any fondness of any sort for the man. While on stage, he gave a very humble self deprecating show.... especially while explaining the loss of his voice. Much of the show was speaking.... telling stories of his life.
Off stage he was incredibly difficult to work with..... one of the worst he has encountered.
“He admits he felt sorry for the singer/songwriter because he was so short, and adds, “That compensation gesture has created a monster.”
Lotta’ latent anger here. Art’s only kidding himself.
Paul Simon made the music. He’s entitled to some neurosis. Art Garfunkel describes a difficult personality, the reporter names Simon a monster.
The music can stand on its own.
I have also heard the Dave Grohl is perhaps the nicest guy of all.
By contrast, most of your rappers (Jay Z, Kanye West, etc) are some of the biggest tools on the planet.
AG always sounded like a depressed hippy.
I came away from this article thinking a lot less of Art Garfunkel. The author clearly had an agenda to print snarky things about Paul Simon, but Garfunkel obliged. He left Simon & Garfunkel to become a math teacher because he couldn’t stand Simon, but poor me why doesn’t Paul want to sing with me. Really? I was more popular than Paul in high school? How pathetic is that coming from a 72 year old man.
Art Garfunkel had a beautiful voice, but there are lots of great singers. Simon wrote all of the music for Simon & Garfunkel. Simon has a list of memorable songs as a soloist that’s longer than his list of hits with Simon & Garfunkel. Without Garfunkel, Simon might not have achieved the iconic status that they reached for a few years, but he would still have been a hugely successful singer/songwriter. Without Simon, Garfunkel might well have become a traveling coat salesman.
Bottom line: enjoy the music, comedy, or acting of the people that enertain us, but don’t look to them as role models who have it all figured out.
Yeah, okay, whatever.
Garfunkel had a exquisite voice (once), but without Simon no one would even know who he is. As for Simon being difficult, so what? Most geniuses are. As a single performer, Simon was very good, but with Garfunkel he was great (they both were). Art should just STFU.