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/ Simon and Garfunkel

June 16, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Paul Simon may have titled his latest studio album So Beautiful or So What, but the same name could apply to his catalogue relaunch at Legacy Recordings.  So Beautiful has been hailed as a return to form for Simon, writing with a guitar for the first time in many years.  A timely reminder of that form and of the style Simon both recalls and updates on the new disc can be rediscovered on these four reissued titles.  Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin’ Simon, Live Rhymin’ and Still Crazy After All

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Categories: Reviews Tags: Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel

March 11, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

“Just one word…plastics.” With that one word, spoken to the disaffected Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) by an associate of his father’s, the audience viewing 1967’s film The Graduate, could both laugh and sneer along with Benjamin. After all, “plastics” stood for all that was superficial and fake in society. Mike Nichols, directing only his second feature film after a successful Broadway career, was anything but subtle as he masterfully threaded the film’s themes throughout every aspect of

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Friday Feature, Simon and Garfunkel

March 9, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

"What's the point of [making] this album?," an impossibly youthful Paul Simon asks in the 1969 television special Songs of America. "The world is crumbling." If Simon didn't know then why he was "just" recording an album despite all of the tumult around him, he almost certainly knows now. After all, he and partner Art Garfunkel have seen Bridge Over Troubled Water make it to 40 years (actually, 41!), and have even participated in the celebration. The duo have also seen the accompanying album and

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Categories: Reviews Formats: DVD Tags: Simon and Garfunkel

March 8, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Billy Joel, Live at Shea Stadium: The Concert (Columbia/Legacy) The best of the Shea Stadium farewell shows on two CDs and a DVD or Blu-Ray. Not my favorite Joel show, but it's now yours for the buying. (Official site) Neil Diamond, The Bang Years 1966-1968 (Columbia/Legacy) Two Bang LPs (and one non-album single) on a nicely put-together disc - hopefully the first of many deserved tributes to the Solitary Man on the eve of his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. (Official site) Simon

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: Billy Joel, Rainbow, Simon and Garfunkel, Traffic

January 22, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

“Bridge Over Troubled Water” began as Paul Simon’s “humble little gospel hymn song.” But upon its release, it quickly took on a life of its own. Simon’s inspirational words and music, Art Garfunkel’s spine-tingling vocal and Larry Knechtel’s majestic piano all contributed to a work that resonated deeply, as a both an epitaph for the 1960s and a reassuring affirmation for a new decade’s beginning. Believe it or not, “Bridge Over Troubled Water” is 40 years old; what’s hard to grasp isn’t that

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Categories: News Tags: Simon and Garfunkel

November 12, 2010 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

Legacy Recordings just announced another big catalogue overhaul planned for 2011: Paul Simon's catalogue is indeed getting a new reissue campaign next year. Our own Joe Marchese reported in June that Simon had planned to move his back catalogue from Warner Bros. back to Columbia, the home of Simon & Garfunkel. And The Essential Paul Simon, a straight reissue of the 2007 Rhino compilation, was released a few weeks ago. But this is the first official confirmation from the label that something

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