Simon & Garfunkel: The Constant Ups and Downs of Their Relationship
As Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel became the darlings of the folk-rock, countercultural movement of the late 1960s, selling millions of albums and performing sold-out shows across the globe. Privately, their friendship would be strained to the point of breaking time and time again as they attempted to forge their own identities, both within the confines of their professional partnership, as well as separate, solo artists. Their first split was because Simon recorded songs solo, without telling GarfunkelThe duo met in 1953 as music-crazed 11-year-olds in elementary school in Queens, New York.