Simon & Garfunkel

Group / 1963 - 1970 / United States

folk rock folk folk pop rock singer-songwriter contemporary folk pop

Biography

Simon & Garfunkel was an American musical duo comprising the singer-songwriter Paul Simon and the singer Art Garfunkel. They were one of the best-selling musical acts of the 1960s. Their recordings include three U.S. number-one singles—"The Sound of Silence" and the two Record of the Year Grammy winners "Mrs. Robinson" and "Bridge over Troubled Water"—as well as "Homeward Bound", "I Am a Rock", "Scarborough Fair/Canticle", "A Hazy Shade of Winter", "America", "The Boxer" and "Cecilia".

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Analysed songs (11)

A Most Peculiar Man

Simon & Garfunkel

A brief, flat report on a man's suicide, told almost entirely through the gossip of a neighbor and the town's collective shrug.…

isolation suicide social indifference

Anji

Simon & Garfunkel

"Anji" is a solo acoustic guitar instrumental, not a Simon & Garfunkel composition but a cover of Davey Graham's folk-baroque…

technical virtuosity folk-guitar tradition homage/influence

April Come She Will

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A miniature calendar poem that compresses an entire love affair into six months, each given a single verb of arrival, settling,…

transience of love nature as metaphor for emotion inevitability and cyclical time

Blessed

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A bitter inversion of the Beatitudes, this song strips the Sermon on the Mount of its comfort and applies its blessing formula…

religious doubt urban alienation corrupted sanctity

Bookends Theme

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A brief, wordless guitar theme that opens and later recurs on the Bookends album, functioning as a musical frame rather than a…

memory aging transience

Kathy's Song

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A quiet, direct love song built around the image of rain outside a window, written while the singer is physically separated from…

long-distance longing doubt and faith creative paralysis

Leaves That Are Green

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A young songwriter uses the plainest possible imagery of leaves changing color to meditate on time's speed and the impermanence…

mortality and impermanence the passage of time lost love

Punky's Dilemma

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A breezy, cartoonish daydream about breakfast food dissolves midway into a joke about military service and draft evasion, using…

escapism draft anxiety and the Vietnam War American consumer culture

Richard Cory

Simon & Garfunkel

Paul Simon's adaptation of Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem sets a factory worker's envious refrain against the public glamour of…

class envy the gap between appearance and inner life alienation of labor

Somewhere They Can't Find Me

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A confessional song of a man fleeing after a robbery, torn between the tenderness of the woman asleep beside him and the panic…

guilt and self-justification flight and evasion domestic intimacy interrupted

We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin'

Simon & Garfunkel

A slight, upbeat pop confection in which a narrator pleads with a partner not to leave, insisting the relationship is fine and…

denial romantic pleading insecurity masked as confidence