Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hassall: The first time I heard Simon & Garfunkel, I was in the lounge room at Dad's house. I got to pick the record that night – ...

Side one of Bookends is a themed suite of songs focusing on life’s journey from childhood to old age. Side two features three songs released as singles before the album, as well as the finished ...

Bookends acted as the defining soundtrack to close out the decade—a decade that Graham Nash also helped to shape from his adopted home over in Laurel Canyon.

After a rerecording of “The Sound of Silence” made them stars, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel churned out a pair of albums in a hurry in 1966 to capitalize. But they took their time for the follow-up.

Fifty-eight years ago today, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel quietly changed the game for what a pop album could be. On April 3, 1968, the folk rock duo released Bookends, their fourth studio album, ...

When Simon & Garfunkel met neither could have imagined the career that lay before them. Their story through troubled waters to their re-ignited friendship is retold by ‘Bookends’, a duo whose voices ...

A bond between two 11-year-olds forged during a sixth-grade play resulted in one of music’s most legendary folk-rock duos.

Simon & Garfunkel's "America" became a road-trip staple and generational hit, written by Simon after a five-day excursion with an ex-girlfriend.

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