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.
At least Roger Daltrey knows his place, he knows without Pete Townshend’s songs, he’d amount to nothing in the business.
That's true, but a skilled, driven, and/or devious interviewer can do just about anything with people in interviews, especially an artless, credible kind of guy (no pun intended) of the type Garfunkel may very well be. Sure, Art should have been smart enough to see the trap, but then again, we don't know how that interview really went and how far apart in time those quotes transpired in the actual conversation.
It's perfectly believable, to me, that Garfunkel was a sitting duck for a manipulative melodramatic writer/interviewer. I came away with contempt for the "reporter," not for Garfunkel.