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Art Garfunkel
b. 1941
American singer (born 1941)
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Biography
Arthur Ira Garfunkel is an American singer, actor and poet who is best known for his partnership with Paul Simon in the folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel.
Timeline
The story of Art Garfunkel, told in moments.
Simon & Garfunkel released "The Sound of Silence," which hit number one after a producer overdubbed electric guitars without telling them. The duo had already broken up. They got back together.
Bridge over Troubled Water became the best-selling album of the year and won six Grammys. Simon & Garfunkel split for good shortly after. Garfunkel turned to acting.
Reunited with Simon for a free concert in Central Park. Half a million people showed up. A planned reunion album collapsed because they couldn't get along.
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Records have images. There are wet records and dry records. And big records.
We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.
Then I would sing a little in the synagogue. See, if you're a singer, you love to turn your own ears on. You look for those rooms where the reverb is great. I remember the synagogue had a lot of wood and it was a great room. And it was a captive audience and you could sing these minor key songs and make them cry, and that was a thrill.
Artifacts (15)
U.S. Navy Medicine Vol. 70, No. 3 March 1979 (IA NavyMedicine197903)
U.S. Navy. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
U and I (IA ui1979univ)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University High School
LA Ring, Tre dødningehoveder fra Convento dei Cappucini ved Palermo, 1894, KMS3201, Statens Museum for Kunst
Laurits Andersen Ring
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