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Bookends
is the fourth
studio album
by the American
folk rock duo
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.
Bookends
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. Robinson".
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
countercultural movement
in the 1960s.
The album has
continued to receive
critical acclaim
and is often
debated by critics
as to whether it
or
Bridge Over Troubled Water
is
Simon & Garfunkel's
best album.
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Bridge Over Troubled Water
is the fifth
and final
studio album
by American
folk rock duo
The album was released
on
January 26, 1970
through
Columbia Records.
Following the duo's
soundtrack for
The Graduate,
Art Garfunkel
took an acting role
in the film
Catch-22,
while
Paul Simon
worked on the songs,
writing all tracks
except
Felice and
Boudleaux Bryant's
"Bye Bye Love"
previously a hit
for
the Everly Brothers.
With the help of
producer
Roy Halee,
the album followed
a similar
musical pattern
as their previous album
Bookends
(1968),
partly abandoning
their traditional style
to incorporate
elements of rock,
R&B,
gospel,
jazz,
world music,
pop and other genres.
It was described
as their
"most effortless record
and their
most ambitious."
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