{"id":493186,"date":"2020-01-24T08:03:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=942112"},"modified":"2020-01-24T08:03:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:03:36","slug":"simon-and-garfunkel-celebrate-50-years-of-bridge-over-troubled-water-with-live-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/simon-and-garfunkel-celebrate-50-years-of-bridge-over-troubled-water-with-live-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon and Garfunkel Celebrate 50 Years of \u2018Bridge Over Troubled Water\u2019 With Live EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/simon-and-garfunkel.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Fifty years ago this week, Simon and Garfunkel released <em>Bridge Over Troubled Water.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was not only their most successful album \u2014 selling millions of copies and earning them six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year \u2014 but it was also their final LP. They reformed several times over the next four decades for nostalgic tours, and even a one-off single in 1975, but the album marked the end of their creative partnership.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the anniversary, the duo is releasing the new digital EP <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/simon-garfunkel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_simon-garfunkel\" data-tag=\"simon-garfunkel\">Simon &amp; Garfunkel<\/a> \u2013 Live at Carnegie Hall 1969<\/em> to streaming services. It features previously unreleased versions of \u201cBridge Over Troubled Water,\u201d \u201cSo Long, Frank Lloyd Wright,\u201d \u201cThe Boxer\u201d and \u201cSong for the Asking\u201d taped at New York\u2019s Carnegie Hall in November 1969, two months before the album came out. For nearly everyone in the audience, it was their first chance to hear songs that would become inescapable throughout 1970 and the years beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Simon &amp; Garfunkel attempted to record a follow-up to <em>Bridge Over Troubled Water<\/em> in 1983 at the conclusion of a highly lucrative farewell tour, but old tensions returned and Paul Simon felt the material \u2014 which largely dealt with his tumultuous relationship with wife Carrie Fisher \u2014 was too personal to record with his old singing partner. The songs came out on the 1983 Paul Simon solo LP <em>Hearts and Bones<\/em>. Nothing that Garfunkel recorded wound up on the final album.<\/p>\n<p>The duo last performed together at an American Film Institute tribute show to Mike Nichols in 2010. Another reunion remains very unlikely. \u201cOut of the question,\u201d Simon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/paul-simon-talks-crafting-summer-tour-setlist-64669\/\">told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> in 2016.<\/a> \u201cWe don\u2019t even talk.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/simon-and-garfunkel-bridge-over-50-942112\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years ago this week, Simon and Garfunkel released Bridge Over Troubled Water. It was not only their most successful album \u2014 selling millions of copies and earning them six Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year \u2014 but it was also their final LP. They reformed several times over the next four decades for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-493186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 22:18:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}