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Simon & Garfunkel unveil 1st US tour in 20 years
New York, Sept 10: Folk-rock troubadours Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel put aside their personal squabbles on Tuesday and announced they would reunite for the first Simon & Garfunkel US concert tour in 20 years.
New York, Sept 10: Folk-rock troubadours Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel put aside their personal squabbles on Tuesday and announced they would reunite for the first Simon & Garfunkel US concert tour in 20 years.
Simon and Garfunkel, boyhood friends who sold more than 40 million albums in the United States alone during their collaboration, will launch the "Old Friends" 32-city tour at the Palace of Auburn Hills, Michigan, on Oct. 18.
Simon's desire to strike out on what became a spectacular solo career, and subsequent tussles over royalties and credit for their collaborative work, are generally seen as what drove apart the old partners, now both 61.
They performed together for the first time in nearly 10 years when they opened the telecast with a performance of "The Sound of Silence," and decided to bury the hatchet.
The pair played a series of shows in New York back in 1993 and a few shows in Japan that same year. But they have not undertaken a full-fledged tour since they played venues across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia in 1982 and 1983.
The duo, who recorded their first single in 1957 when they were known as 'Tom and Jerry,' went on to release hit albums ""Wednesday Morning, 3 AM" (1964), "Sounds of Silence" (1966), "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme" (1966), "Bookends" (1968) and "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (1970), and the movie soundtrack "The Graduate" (1968).
Bureau Report
Simon's desire to strike out on what became a spectacular solo career, and subsequent tussles over royalties and credit for their collaborative work, are generally seen as what drove apart the old partners, now both 61.
They performed together for the first time in nearly 10 years when they opened the telecast with a performance of "The Sound of Silence," and decided to bury the hatchet.
The pair played a series of shows in New York back in 1993 and a few shows in Japan that same year. But they have not undertaken a full-fledged tour since they played venues across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia in 1982 and 1983.
The duo, who recorded their first single in 1957 when they were known as 'Tom and Jerry,' went on to release hit albums ""Wednesday Morning, 3 AM" (1964), "Sounds of Silence" (1966), "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme" (1966), "Bookends" (1968) and "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (1970), and the movie soundtrack "The Graduate" (1968).
Bureau Report