The post Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” Takes Us Inside The Graduate appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Benjamin Braddock is staring down the barrel of his future — and he’s terrified ...

It was a perfect statement of the folk-rock sound, incorporating the truth and soul of the folk world with the amplification and style of the post-Beatles music world. Simon & Garfunkel quickly became ...

Simon & Garfunkel's 'Sounds Of Silence' album is now regarded as a classic. It came perilously close to never happening.

When I returned from home in the middle of November I brought with me a copy of the record. I showed it to a couple of people. “Simon and Garfunkel?” they said. “Are you kidding?” “It’s number one in ...

Simon and Garfunkel’s song “The Sound of Silence” rose to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in January of 1966, even reaching No. 1 at the time. That’s more than 50 years ago, if that math wasn’t ...

Simon and Garfunkel—singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel—were one of the most popular recording acts of the 1960s, but their recording career got off to a wobbly start. Wednesday ...

This week we celebrate 54 years since the release of Simon & Garfunkel's sensational second studio album Sounds of Silence, released through Columbia Records. It became their breakthrough release, ...

WASHINGTON — He joined Paul Simon to form the legendary folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel. This weekend, Art Garfunkel performs “In Close-Up” at the Kennedy Center at 8 p.m. Saturday. Flanked by ...

Billboard reports that the track makes its debut at No. 6 on their Hot Rock Songs chart, as well as No. 2 on the Streaming Rock Songs chart thanks to 5,000 downloads -- a 46 percent increase from its ...