When Paul Met Artie: The Story of Simon & Garfunkel

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From childhood friendship to brief teenage stardom, from early failures to musical greatness — the implausible story of how Simon & Garfunkel turned into a cherished voice in their generation.

Long before they turned into one of the beloved and successful duos of all time, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were just two kids growing up in Queens, New York — best possible friends who met in a sixth-grade production of Alice in Wonderland and bonded over girls, baseball, and rock ’n’ roll. As teens, they practiced making a song into a tape recorder, building harmonies that blended their now-famous voices until they sounded just right. They wrote songs together, pursued big-time music producers, and dreamed of turning into stars, never imagining how far their music would take them. Against a backdrop of street-corner doo-wop gangs, the electrifying beginnings of rock ’n’ roll, and the upward push of the counterculture folk music scene, G. Neri and David Litchfield chronicle the path that led two young boys from Queens to teenage stardom and back to obscurity, before finding their very own true voices and captivating the world with their talent. Back matter includes an afterword, a discography, a bibliography, and a captivating list of song influences.

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