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"Old Friends" is a song by the American music duo Simon & Garfunkel from their fourth studio album, Bookends (1968). On the album, it segues into the following song " Bookends Theme ( Reprise )" with a single high, sustained note on the strings .
The song is a brief acoustic piece (once compared to English rock band the Moody Blues) that evokes "a time of innocence." [2] [3] The “Bookends Theme ” is preceded by "Old Friends", which segues into the song with a single high, sustained note on the strings. [4] The “Bookends Theme ” contains vocal accompaniment from the duo.
Bookends is the fourth studio album by the American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel.Produced by Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel and Roy Halee, the album was released on April 3, 1968, in the United States by Columbia Records.
Old Friends is the second box set of Simon & Garfunkel songs, released in November 1997. The three-disc anthology collects most of the duo's best-known works, as well as previously unreleased outtakes.
Simon & Garfunkel performing in Dublin, 1982 American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel recorded songs for five studio albums. Consisting of guitarist/singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel, the duo first met as children in Forest Hills, Queens, New York in 1953, where they first learned to harmonize with one another and began writing original material. By 1957, the teenagers had ...
Art Garfunkel knows well the sound of silence. “I’ve crossed Europe, I’ve crossed America. I crossed Japan first,” says the higher-voiced half of the 100 million-selling Simon & Garfunkel ...
The singer-poet, promoting a new album with 33-year-old son Art Garfunkel Jr., also revealed that he and Simon will reconnect again and that their lunch meeting "was about wanting to make amends ...
Garfunkel's songs and voice took a lead role on some of the songs, and the harmonies for which the duo was known gradually disappeared. For Simon, Bookends represented the end of the collaboration and became an early indicator of his intentions to go solo. [75]