“I cried when he told me how much I hurt”: singer Art Garfunkel on emotional reunion with Paul Simon

In later interviews and memoirs, Paul Simon and Arthur Garfunkel spoke bitterly of each other. When Simon recorded a solo single early in their collaboration, Garfunkel was furious. “The friendship was destroyed for life… I will never forget, and I will never forgive,” Garfunkel wrote in his memoir.

Simon, for his part, could not accept the fact that Garfunkel also wanted an acting career. In the late 1960s, Garfunkel appeared in several films, he also wrote music for the film ‘Watership Down’, with the famous song ‘Bright Eyes’. “I think if Artie had become a big movie star, he would have gone,” Simon wrote in his memoir.

“Instead of just being the guy who sang Paul Simon’s songs, he could be Art Garfunkel, a huge star in his own right… It made me think about how I could still be the guy who wrote songs and they sang “This didn’t do it. need Artie,” he said.

Simon took the initiative for the break. In 2015, Garfunkel said in an interview: “How can you walk away from this happy place on top of the world, Paul? What’s wrong with you, fool? In 2016, Simon said: “To be honestly, we are not getting ahead. So it’s not fun (to play together, right). So that won’t happen again.”