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The Concert in Central Park is the first live album by American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, released on February 16, 1982, by Warner Bros. Records.It was recorded on September 19, 1981, at a free benefit concert on the Great Lawn in Central Park, New York City, where the pair performed in front of 500,000 people.
The Concert in Central Park (1982) The Simon and Garfunkel Collection: 17 of Their All-Time Greatest Recordings is the second compilation album of greatest hits by Simon & Garfunkel , first issued in November 1981, 2 months after performing at the landmark The Concert in Central Park .
The performance was included in the subsequent video and DVD releases of the concert but was omitted from the live album. Simon also performed the song several times during Simon & Garfunkel's subsequent 1983 tour. In an interview on Late Night with David Letterman on May 20, 1982, Simon discussed the Central Park experience with David Letterman.
Garfunkel and Simon released a total of five studio albums from 1964 to 1970. ... The duo famously came back together in 1981 for a benefit concert in Central Park, which was later released as an ...
The duo have reunited several times; their 1981 concert in Central Park may have attracted more than 500,000 people, one of the largest concert attendances in history. [2] [3] Simon & Garfunkel won seven Grammy Awards [4] —plus four Grammy Hall of Fame Awards—and in 1990 were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. [5]
In 1981, Simon & Garfunkel included eight songs from Simon's solo career in the set list of their September 19 concert in Central Park. Five were rearranged as duets and Simon performed the other three solo. The resulting live album, TV special and videocassette (later DVD) releases were all major hits.
Simon & Garfunkel have cited the Everly Brothers as strong influences on their own music. Their live version of "Wake Up Little Susie", recorded at the duo's concert in New York's Central Park on September 19, 1981, reached #27 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982, and is the duo's last Top 40 hit. [17]
A new dawn’s about to break — on the Great Lawn. The famed 55-acre field at the heart of Central Park is set to host a super concert on Saturday, with music megastars like Paul Simon, Bruce ...