Simon And Garfunkel Having Tea In 1966

Unhinged, illegal behavior (see tags for details)

I might be down by the schoolyard with Julio btw

“Before there was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, there was Simon and Garfunkel — an extraordinary, a singular love affair. There is no gay component in the two of us that I am aware of, but the way these two lives wrapped around each other is poetically stunning. From age eleven to today, a span of sixty-four years, Art and Paul have been at work to entertain, win the respect of, and dazzle one another. It worked so well that the whole world pulled up chairs to watch and listen.”

— Art Garfunkel, What is it All But Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man

"do you think they ever--" pleaseeee be serious

i gotta talk….. something so crazy about paul simon and his relationship with his father and seeing a kid sing a song at a school recital when he was in grade school and deciding to ask him over to play music together and studying his mouth and the shape of it and the way it moves so you can sing just like him and having a fight with him and your father tells your best friend that he doesn’t like him very much. and you go off to school and find him again and remember that he is your oldest friend and you rekindle your friendship and then start on your future together and you sleep in hotel rooms with magic fingers and think what great fun to be so young and writing music and famous! and then he goes off to be an actor and you are so heartbroken you write a best selling album about it and then you break up your world famous act and he can’t understand why you would do it and then you hear his albums and think they’re just not him not even close so you write him a song and he suggests you do it together just like old times. then you rekindle your friendship and give the biggest concert Central Park has ever seen and then you get into such a vicious fight during the subsequent tour that you want to kill each other and then out of the blue you’re back together for a reunion tour decades later and you say you’re done fighting but you never call him back and you only begin to understand the relationship you had with your father when you’re older than you ever thought you’d be and have released what will be your likely last album that’s about dying and religion

btw imagine being at paul simon's 70th birthday party and his old buddy is gonna read a poem and u think oh probably gonna be something funny. something light-hearted. maybe a bit in there about growing up together or something. and then art garfunkel comes out and says "he was born three weeks before me, my dear. but he was a premature baby. were we both conceived at the same instant?"

Paul and Artie looking at each other and smiling on stage

People will caption a picture of two middle aged men with “do you think they explored each other’s bodies?” like they are straight married and have 2 kids each. But yes I honest to God do.

Imagine hearing him read the infamous “lover of asses” line. Or the masturbation one. For my own wellbeing I think I will pass on this

Random post I guess, but just so you know, if you have an Audible subscription you can buy Artie’s autobiography read by him