After their legendary soundtrack to The Graduatespent seven weeks at No. 1, the folk-rock duo followed it with Bookends in May, creating a rare musical showdown that kept two of their biggest albums battling atop the Billboard 200 for a staggering 16 weeks.
The story behind one of the most unforgettable runs in music history began 15 years earlier, when Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel first met as grade schoolers. The future legends were cast in their sixth-grade graduation production ofAlice in Wonderland, with Garfunkel playing the Cheshire Cat and Simon taking on the role of the White Rabbit.
Bonding over their love for rock and roll, the two friends formed a partnership that would quietly—then loudly—change the course of music forever.
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“We were discouraged from having written our own tunes for a couple of years and not being lucky enough to get on the radio, which was our goal,” Garfunkel explained of the duo's early days, just before their big break, in the same joint interview. “We thought, 'We have this one last song, ‘Hey Schoolgirl.’ … We went to the demo studio and paid $7 for an hour of recording … it was our swan song.”
In 1963, the two regrouped as Simon & Garfunkel. Recognizing the public’s growing interest in folk music, the pair signed with Columbia Records and began laying the foundation for their signature sound. Despite some setbacks, an electric remix of their 1964 song "Sound of Silence" hit No. 1 on the charts and turned the duo into superstars.
“What a song,” Garfunkel said of “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” with Simon adding, “I was playing my guitar alone one night … and all of a sudden I sang that. I couldn't believe it. I was dumbstruck. I have no idea where that came from. It was a gift. And I was just emotionally very moved by it.”
And to think, one of the greatest partnerships in music history began not in a recording studio, but on the set of a stage play—it’s the kind of story that sounds almost too perfect to be true. Like a fairy tale.
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