Early history
Inside 1956, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were juniors at Forest Hills High School in New York City. It began swimming together en bloc known as Tom & Jerry, by using Simon when Jerry Landis & Garfunkel when Tom Graph, therefore known as because he universally liked to track ("graph") hits on the popular stock and index charts. When seniors around 1957, they so began writing their have songs in the Everly Brothers' rock and roll style. It managed to record one of their 1st songs, "Hey, Schoolgirl", for Sid Prosen of Big Records. Discharged in 45 & 78 revolutions per minute records, a only — backed by having "Dancin' Wild" — sold 100,000 copies, hitting #49 on the Billboard charts.

It late performed their hit in American Bandstand, right when Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire".

Subsequent efforts inside 1958 did not email touching their initial profits, & fallowing senior high school a duo attend seperate Colleges, by owning Simon enrolling at Queens College and Garfunkel matriculating into Columbia University. Inside 1963 they found prominence when a share of the equivalent Future York City folk music scene as Bob Dylan, using close harmony singing divine per Everly Brothers, conjunct with Simon's acoustic guitar playing. Simon, world health organization got finished college however dropped away from Brooklyn Law School, had — prefer Garfunkel — developed an interest in the folk scene. Simon showed Garfunkel two or three songs that he experienced written in the folk style: "Sparrow", "Bleecker Street", & "He Was My Brother" — which was late dedicated to Andrew Goodman, the friend of two Simon & Garfunkel, & a schoolfellow of Simon's at Queen's College, world health organization was one of deuce-ace civil rights workers murdered around Neshoba County, Mississippi, on June 21, 1964.

These trey efforts were among 5 original songs by Simin involved on their number one album for Columbia Records, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M., which initially flopped upon its release on October 19, 1964.

First breakup
Shortly when finishing recording, a duo profits split & Simon moved to England, where he recorded his solo The Paul Simon Song Book in May 1965. Recorded around 3 different dates in June & July at Levy's Studio, London, & featuring lone Simon and his guitar, these are the refreshing souvenir of the early folk operate of Paul Simon. A album was purportedly deleted astir 1979 at Simon's request, however was re-introduced within Video sustaining bonus tracks in 2004.

When Simon was around England that summertime of 1965, radio stations around Cocoa Beach and Gainesville, Florida, began to receive requests for a song from either a album Wednesday Morning, Terzetto The. M. known as "The Sound of Silence". A song as well began to receive radio airplay inside Boston. Seizing a risk, a duo's U.S. producer, Tom Wilson, world health organization got heard The Byrds' early folk records, dubbed an electric guitar and drums into "The Sound of Silence" track, & freed it as a individual, backed by using "We've Got a Groovey Thing Goin'". A dubbing turned folk into folk-rock, the debut of the recently genre for the Top 40, much to Simon's surprise.

Inside September 1965, Simaround first learned that it got entered the popular stock and index charts when he was astir to last on stage in a Danish folk club. A song hit first on the popular stock and index charts by that December.

Reunification
Simon immediately returned to the United States and the class action re-formed for the 2nd period to record extrthe tracks around a similar style, though neither approved of what Wilson experienced done by having "The Sound of Silence."

the symptom was a sequence of folk-rock records, which have endured also when any in the genre. Simon's lyrics were typically insightful & picturesque, however leavened by the uniform dry humour.

In January 17, 1966, a duo freed the album Sounds of Silence, which – helped by the title track's profits – hit #21, piece Wednesday Morning, Trey The.M. was re-discharged & reached #30.

Among a tracks on The Paul Simon Song Book that were rerecorded by owning electric car backing for Sounds of Silence were "I Am A Rock" (which as a single reached America #3 in the summertime of 1966), "Leaves That Are Green", "April Come She Will", & "Kathy's Song".

Farther hit singles come, including "Scarborough Fair/Canticle", according to the traditional English ballad using an original counter-melody, and "Homeward Bound" (afterwards Me #5), just about life on tour spell Simon was touring witharound England in 1965 (the song is reputed to develop been write about a platform at Widnes railway station).

Further tracks from either A Paul Simon Song Book were involved by using recent compositions in their October 10, 1966 album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, which refined the folk-rock sound hastily freed in Sounds of Silence.

Inside 1967, Simon and Garfunkel contributed heavy to the soundtrack to Mike Nichols' film The Graduate, which was released in January 21, 1968, and instantly rose to #1 as an album.

When their albums became further and more more adventuresome, A Graduate Original Soundtrack was immediately followed around March 1968 at the top of the stock and index charts by Bookends, which dealt with progressively complex themes of geezerhood & loss. It features a top-25 hit singles "A Hazy Shade Of Winter", "Fakin' It", "At The Zoo", "America", and "Mrs. Robinson", the classic from the Graduate soundtrack, which became #1 as a single.

At a March 1969 Grammy Awards, "Mrs. Robinson" was known as Record of the Season, when Simon was as well honored by using the Grammy for Right Original Score for a Motion Picture.

Second breakup
By 1969, the duo's profits began to require its toll. Garfunkel experienced begun to pursue the career witharound acting, in Nichols' watch-as much as A Graduate, starring when Nately in the picture version of Catch-22. This more and more frustrated Simon while Garfunkel's leave interfered using a recording of the duo's next album, & it didn't assist that Simon's a portion in the film got been cut prior to motion-picture photography actually began.

A duo's deteriorating personal relation continued into their late 1969 tour, which featured performances at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio on November 11 and Carbondale, Illinois on November 8, recordings of which are purportedly widely bootlegged. Streaming video footage of the tour was shown in their controversial November 30 television special Songs Of America, which TV sponsors refused to endorse because of its distinct anti-Vietnam War message.

Their long-delayed final album, Bridge Over Troubled Water, was at last freed in January 26, 1970. Its title track, featuring Garfunkel's soaring vocals, was a massive hit & one of a right-selling records of the decade, staying #1 on the stock & index stock and index charts for sixer weeks and on the charts for far hanker. A album includes trey more top-twenty hits: "El Condor Pasa" (United states #18), "Cecilia" (America #4), & "The Boxer" – which, finished in 1968, hit #7 on a stock and index charts the as a result season – as well as aSurvive recording of the Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love" from Ames, Iowa, on their 1969 tour.

At a subsequent March 1971, Grammy Awards, the album & lone were known as Album & Record of The Month, severally, winning Grammys too for Right Engineered Record, Song of The Month, Right Contemporary Song, & Right Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists. Their 1972 ''Greatest Hits album peaked at US #5.

Fallowing a pair split late inside 1970, Simon went on to the super successful solo music career, recording many classic albums, including There Goes Rhymin' Simon (1973), Still Crazy After All These Years (1975), and his virtually all extremely celebrated Graceland (1986). Garfunkel split his period between acting & musical theater releases, by owning various resolutions. His virtually all critical acclaimed album was a 1978 effort Watermark'' for which almost all the songs were written by Jimmy Webb.

Subsequent careers
Simon & Garfunkel's 1st reunion since their 2nd breakup was at the June, 1972 benefit concert at Madison Square Garden for presidential candidate George McGovern. In October 18, 1975 the duo made an appearance in NBC's Saturday Night Live. It performed "The Boxer" & "Scarborough Fair" together. Many however exposure were shown when you took a indicate of the pair camping their childhood front yard inside Queens in New York City. That fall too saw a release of their number one recently only since a breakup, "My Little Town." A song manufactured a top x & appeared in two of their solo albums freed that season.

the duo has reunited on and off since so, virtually all notably for a free concert in New York's Central Park on September 19, 1981, which attracted a crowd of in 500,000 humans & was televised & afterwards discharged in LP, Video, VHS, LD, & DVD. A profits of the 1981 concert prompted the duo to last around the globe tour in 1982 (Europe & Japan) and 1983 (The U.S. & Canada).

Simaround & Garfunkel potentially began function on what would develop been their foremost recently studio album in to the higher degree a decade, tentatively titled Believe Bay. However originative differences led Simon to wipe Garfunkel's vocals off a pack tracks that were completed. A solo album Hearts and Bones was the symptom, & an extended period of estrangement for the duo followed.

Their next public appearance was within 1990, when them performed at a ceremony for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Simon & Garfunkel appeared together inside 1993 for 21 sold out concerts around Up to date York, by having half of the indicate existence Paul Simon solo with a b& and the more half Simon & Garfunkel. Late a equivalent season it did occasionally charity concerts, prefer for the Bridge School Concerts. Within July 2002, Columbithe Legacy issued the antecedently unreleased survive recording of a Simon & Garfunkel concert, Live In New York City, 1967. It features an about-complete recording of a performance from the duo at Philharmonic Hall, the Lincoln Center in New York City on January 22, 1967.

In February 23, 2003, Simon and Garfunkel reunited to perform publically first since 1993, singing "The Sound Of Silence" when a opening work of the Grammy Awards. Prior to a indicate, a duo was presented by owning a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, honoring their musical contributions over the retiring 4 & a half decades.

A effective feelings generated by their appearance on the Grammys led to a second thaw in their relationship. Presently, Simon & Garfunkel launched the ii-year yearn reunion tour of the United States (and Toronto, Canada), which ran from October 16 to December 21, 2003. Entitled "Old Friends," their number one tour inside all over twenty years involved 40 shows within twenty-xxviii cities & featured favorite guests The Everly Brothers.

A profits of the foremost Old Friends tour led to an encore within June and July 2004 with over Twenty-five shows, this instance too around Europe. Within July 2004, they completed a tour using the flourish, sustaining a finale at the Colosseum in Rome before an audience which, according to news media reports, was probably potentially big than a audience at a celebrated Central Park concert.

Discography
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. (1964) Sounds of Silence (1965) Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966) The Graduate Original Soundtrack (1967) Bookends (1967) Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) ''Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits (1972) The Concert in Central Park (1981) Live In New York City, 1967 (2002) Old Friends: Live on Stage'' (2004) & numbers of more anthologies & compilations.

Singles

|rowspan="2"|Year |rowspan="2"| Title |rowspan="2"| Label |colspan="2"| Chart positions |rowspan="2"| Album |- |U.S. Hot 100 |UK Charts |- | 1957 | "Hey Schoolgirl"/"Dancin' Wild" [a] | Large 613 [45 & 78] & King 5167 | #49 | - |- | 1958 | "Our Song"/"Two Teen-Agers" [a] | Large 616 | - | - |- | 1958 | "That’s My Story"/"Don’t Say Goodbye" [a] | Large 616 & Hunt 319 | - | - |- | 1959 | "Baby Talk"/"I'm Gonna Get Married" [a] [c] | Bell 120 | - | - |- | 1959 | "Baby Talk"/"Thank You Pretty Baby" [a] [b] [d] | Gala GSP 806 | - | - |- | 1959 | "I'm Lonesome"/"Looking At You" [a] | Coal 1094 | - | - |- | 1962 | "Surrender, Please Surrender"/"Fightin' Mad" [a] | ABC-Paramount 10363 | - | - |- | 1963 | "I'm Lonesome"/"Looking At You" [a] [b] | Pye International 25202 | - | - |- | 1965 | "The Sounds of Silence"/"We've Got A Groovey Thing Goin'" | Columbia Four-43396 | #1 | - | Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. and Sounds of Silence |- | 1966 | "Homeward Bound"/"Leaves That Are Green" | Columbia Four-43511 | #5 | #9 | Sounds of Silence for B-side (& The-side in the UK); Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme for A-side in the US |- | 1966 | "I Am A Rock"/"Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall" | Columbia Four-43617 | #3 | #17 | Sounds of Silence (The); Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme (B) |- | 1966 | "The Dangling Conversation"/"The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine" | Columbia Four-43728 | #25 | - | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme |- | 1966 | "A Hazy Shade of Winter"/"For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" | Columbia Four-43873 | #13 | - | Bookends (A); Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme (B) |- | 1967 | "At The Zoo"/"The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" | Columbia Four-44046 | #16 | - | Bookends (A); Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme (B) |- | 1967 | "Fakin' It"/"You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies" | Columbia Four-44232 | #23 | - | Bookends (The single) |- | 1967 | "Scarborough Fair/Canticle"/"April Come She Will" | Columbia Four-44465 | #11 | - | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme (A); Sounds of Silence (B) |- | 1968 | "Mrs. Robinson"/"Old Friends/Bookends" | Columbia Four-44511 | #1 | #7 | Bookends |- | 1969 | "The Boxer"/"Baby Driver" | Columbia Four-44785 | #7 | #10 | Bridge Over Troubled Water (A sole) |- | 1969 | "Baby Driver" (single-channel)/"Baby Driver" (stereo) | Columbia Four-44785 | - | - | Bridge On top Troubled Water system (B sole) |- | 1970 | "Bridge Over Troubled Water"/"Keep The Customer Satisfied" | Columbia Four-45079 | #1 | #1 | Bridge All over Tumultuous Water |- | 1970 | "Cecilia"/"The Only Living Boy In New York" | Columbia Four-45133 | #4 | - | Bridge Above Turbulent Water |- | 1970 | "El Condor Pasa (If I Could)"/"Why Don't You Write Me" | Columbia Four-45237 | #18 | - | Bridge Above Tumultuous Water |- | 1972 | "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" | Columbia Four-45663 | #53 | - | ''Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits |- | 1972 | "America" | Columbia Four-45663 | #97 | - |Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits |- | 1975 | "My Little Town" (mono/stereo) [e] | Columbia Three-10230 | #9 | - |- | 1982 | "Wake Up Little Susie"/"Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard" | Warner Bros. WBS 50053 | #27 | - | The Concert in Central Park'' |}

[a] when Tom & Jerry

[b] UK release

[c] B-side by Ronnie Lawrence

[d] B-side by Paul Sheldon

[e] likewise discharged as an EP backed by "Rag Doll" (Garfunkel solo) & "You're Kind" (Simon solo)