Fleetwood Mac - Trodd Nossel Studios, Wallingford.Acoustic, KCRW Studios, Santa Monica, CA. Herman's Hermits - The Covers Album (1968).Roberta Flack - Afro Blue - Non-Album Tracks (1968).The cover art photo was taken in Copenhagen, Denmark, on April 28, 1970, just a few days before the concert included here. And, in case you missed the label on this post, it's an acoustic performance, with just Simon and Garfunkel (plus a pianist for the song "Bridge Over Troubled Water").Ġ5 The 59th Street Bridge Song (Simon & Garfunkel)Ġ7 That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine (Simon & Garfunkel)ġ0 For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her (Simon & Garfunkel)ġ4 El Condor Pasa (Simon & Garfunkel)ġ5 Leaves that Are Green (Simon & Garfunkel)ġ9 So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright (Simon & Garfunkel)Ģ0 Song for the Asking (Simon & Garfunkel)Ģ1 A Poem on the Underground Wall (Simon & Garfunkel)Ģ3 Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel)Ģ4 The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel)Ģ6 Old Friends - Bookends (Simon & Garfunkel) This album is an hour and 13 minutes long. But I prefer this one to that one, mostly because it's a single concert instead of a selection. This concert isn't super vital, since the song list is quite similar to the "Live 1969" one. The only thing I didn't like about the recording is that the duo were so popular that the applause after some songs went on and on and on! I edited some of that down, because I didn't want to hear a minute or more of cheering and clapping, which was the case for some of the songs towards the end of the show. Luckily, one of them, this one, was bootlegged as a soundboard, so the sound quality is top notch. But the duo were on the verge of breaking up, and did so later that year. Their album "Bridge Over Troubled Water' was released in January 1970, and was a massive critical and commercial success, going on to sell over 25 million copies. This is one 1970 concert presented in its entirety. This, admittedly, is similar to the official album "Live 1969." But that was taken from a bunch of 1969 concerts. But here's one concert that's different and worthy of having. There's a bunch of official live material out there from their 1960s heyday. That second issue is why I've never posted a Simon & Garfunkel concert here before. Plus, if there are good official albums available, I don't want to post something that substantially duplicates that. There are way too many mediocre to poor sounding bootlegs out there. Bookends is the fourth studio album by American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel.When it comes to posting concerts here, I only want to post the best of the best. Produced by Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel and Roy Halee, the album was released on April 3, 1968, in the United States by Columbia Records. The duo had risen to fame two years prior with the albums Sounds of Silence and Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme and the soundtrack album for the 1967 film The Graduate.īookends is a concept album that explores a life journey from childhood to old age. Side one of the album marks successive stages in life, the theme serving as bookends to the life cycle. Side two largely consists of previously-released singles and of unused material for The Graduate soundtrack. Simon's lyrics concern youth, disillusionment, relationships, old age, and mortality. Much of the material was crafted alongside producer John Simon (no relation), who joined the recording when Paul Simon suffered from writer's block. The album was recorded gradually over the period of a year, with production speeding up around the later months of 1967. Initial sales for Bookends were substantial in the US, and the album produced the number-one single " Mrs. The album sold well in the US and in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number one. Bookends was considered a breakthrough for the duo, placing them on the same level as artists such as Aretha Franklin, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and The Rolling Stones at the forefront of the cultural movement in the 1960s. ![]() The album has continued to receive critical acclaim and is debated by critics as to whether it or Bridge Over Troubled Water is Simon & Garfunkel's best album. Simon & Garfunkel first burst onto the American scene when their hit single " The Sound of Silence" made waves on radio in 1965, during a period in which the duo had broken up due to the failure of their debut release, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. Following another release, Sounds of Silence (1965), the duo recorded and released Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966), which brought new critical and commercial success to the duo. Simon, then 25, felt he had finally "made it" into an upper echelon of rock and roll, while most importantly retaining artistic integrity ("making him spiritually closer to Bob Dylan than to, say, Bobby Darin", wrote biographer Marc Eliot).
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