It was a perfect statement of the folk-rock sound, incorporating the truth and soul of the folk world with the amplification and style of the post-Beatles music world. Simon & Garfunkel quickly became ...

Simon & Garfunkel's 'Sounds Of Silence' album is now regarded as a classic. It came perilously close to never happening.

Paul Simon and Bob Dylan both rose to prominence in the 1960s with similar styles of music. Naturally, people drew comparisons between the two musicians, which Simon resented. He was competitive and ...

The 90-minute concert was rather short (Simon played a much longer set with Garfunkel two years ago at Baltimore’s 1st Mariner Arena) but satisfying, with the 64-year-old and his crack backup band ...

which was written amid the turmoil following President John F. Kennedy's assassination, will join Chubby Checker's 1960s dance hit as two of 25 recordings selected for preservation at the These are ...

Paul Simon released his 13th solo album to nearly unanimous acclaim this past summer. Now he’s on a big European tour, at a time most musicians his age would be content playing their greatest hits in ...

For a while now, Paul Simon has been shuffling and reshuffling the basic ingredients of his 1986 masterwork Graceland, trying new combinations of exotic, often African rhythms with elements of ...

Simon & Garfunkel's 1965 recording of 'The Sound of Silence' is a timeless masterpiece, an iconic song that floats beyond the constraints of time and space to become a composition holding a gravitas ...

Only Paul Simon could command the sound of silence like this. In the opening act of the first of five sold-out shows on his comeback tour at NYC’s Beacon Theatre, the music legend played the entirety ...

When I returned from home in the middle of November I brought with me a copy of the record. I showed it to a couple of people. “Simon and Garfunkel?” they said. “Are you kidding?” “It’s number one in ...