1 hit in 1966, appeared in the film “The Graduate” the following year, and has gone on to become one of S&G’s most beloved songs and routinely rated one of the best of all time in popular music polls. The initial “The Sounds of Silence” (the name was later shortened) was written in 1963-64 and appeared on the duo’s first album, which flopped so profoundly as to cause the pair to break up.įortunately, they reformed and re-recorded SOS, which became a No. In his memoir, “Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man’s Blindness into an Extraordinary Vision for Life,” Garfunkel’s best friend Sanford “Sandy” Greenberg explained how he suddenly lost his sight in college and how he overcame the tragedy and subsequently went on to great success in life due in large part to the support of his pal, Garfunkel.Īrt – who in a show of empathy called himself “Darkness” – would talk about the situation with his musical partner, Paul Simon, who went on to write the song. This past summer the real inspiration appears to have been revealed. "When I'm writing, when we're developing the songs and going through the process of recording I listen to that music so much because I really want to make sure that they will stand up to that amount of listening, that the melodies will continue to be rewarding and the ideas continue be there as you grow.From a tribute to JFK after his assassination to a song simply written in a dark bathroom, there have been many interpretations (guesses) as to the meaning of Simon and Garfunkel’s classic “Sound of Silence” over the decades. It’s a huge influence, definitely, but it's also a bar that I like to try and meet. "Because I'm so familiar with it … it feels like it becomes part of you, in a way. "The melodies that Paul Simon writes and the timbre of his voice … I can listen to it forever," she says. That album's echoing sonic quality rings between the lilting melodies of Sculptor, and her harmonic chemistry with Hassett has an almost mystical parallel. It's no surprise that Bridge Over Troubled Water has loomed especially large in Randell's escape plan since she was six or seven. Simon and Garfunkel all of the records that came into my life just pointed to bigger ideas and places and that was a really important thing to have in my back pocket." "So punk records, yes, and not just punk records. "Records were very important," Randell confirms of her Benalla days, "when you're in a state of dismay about the way things appear to be to you as a teenager and you don't know how to articulate your frustrations.
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