An eclectic and multi-dimensional album, BOOKENDS is probably Simon & Garfunkel's masterpiece. Side One forms a cycle-of-life suite, from the chaotic 'Save the Life of My Child' to the youthful wanderlust of 'America' to the autumnal reflection. For Paul Simon, the son of an English teacher mother and a bandleader father, music came easy.His father Louis Simon had already appeared on The Jackie Gleason Show and other shows when the family moved from New Jersey to Queens, New York when Simon was around four years old.
Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966), and Bookends (1968). Simon & Garfunkels fourth album takes on psychedelic influences, the changing cultural climate of the ’60s, and their own ever-growing ambitions. Robinson" and "Hazy Shade of Winter", but the lesser-known, quirky gems "Fakin' It" and "Punky's Dilemma", two of Simon's weirdest and most playful songs. Art Garfunkel is a singer and actor who rose to fame as half of the 1960s folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel.
The second half is the closest Simon & Garfunkel ever came to rock & roll, featuring not only the classics "Mrs. The entire first half, bracketed by the lovely "Bookends Theme", has a suite-like feel even though it encompasses songs as varied as the chaotic "Save the Life of My Child" and the subtle acoustic reverie "Overs", not to mention the anthemic "America" and Art Garfunkel's audio-verite "Voices of Old People". Simon & Garfunkel's first consistently excellent album, 1968's BOOKENDS is a brief (12 songs in less than 30 minutes) but beautiful song cycle that sums up all of Paul Simon's '60s themes of alienation and identity in a newly orchestrated and elegant style far removed from the skeletal folk-rock of their earlier albums.
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