Simon & Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel is an American singing duo from the 1960s. The popular duo consists of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.



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[hide] *Arise 1  ==Genesis[ Edit] == During their middle-school years started with Simon and Garfunkel singing songs by The Everly Brothers, among others. In 1956 they took the artists names to Tom and Jerry (Paul Simon as Jerry Landis and Art Garfunkel as Tom Graph), officially started a career and were given a first recording contract. In 1957 they wrote for the first time own texts and scored a first hit: Hey school girl. These attempts at hits to come did not prove successful and after high school, each one his own way.
 * 1.1 breakthrough
 * 1.2 Reunion
 * 2 discography
 * 2.1 Albums
 * 2.2 Singles
 * 2.3 Radio 2 Top 2000
 * 2.4 Dvds
 * 3 Named
 * 4 external links

In the subsequent period they saw each other little. They met again In 1962 and 1963 end they performed under the name Simon & Garfunkel. ===Breakthrough[ Edit] === Because their music in 1967 was used as soundtrack for the film The Graduate (with Dustin Hoffman in the title role) came their career. With their quiet, pleasant and mild socially critical numbers increased them in the charts. Songs like "The Sound of Silence, Homeward Bound, I am A Rock, Kathy's Song, April Come She Will, A Hazy Shade of Winter, America, Scarborough Fair, Mrs. Robinson, The Boxer, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Cecilia, El Condor Pasa and My Little Town are still known to many people.They also have a song dedicated to the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Some of their songs have reached the status of evergreen . Simon & Garfunkel together won five Grammy Awards for their albums. The duo went into 1970 apart. ===Reunion[ Edit] === ticket for a performance by Simon & Garfunkel (2003)During a performance in Dublin<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After a pause of eleven years Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel came on 19 september 1981 for one time together for a performance in Central Park in New York. Nearly half a million people attended this memorable performance. In 2003 the duo a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2004 they kept the Old Friends Tour and in February 2009, Garfunkel announced that they will begin a new tour as possible.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="171" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]  they have also done This in June and July ,2009 there was a tour by Australia, New Zealand and Japan. ==Discography<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Albums<span class="mw-editsection" len="334" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Singles<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Radio 2 Top 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===DVDs<span class="mw-editsection" len="333" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Named<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * See also Paul Simon discography.
 * See also discography Art Garfunkel.
 * the Simon-Garfunkel-asteroid is to this singing duo named