Simon & Garfunkel

American folk music duo

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2024 Collaborated with son Arthur Jr. on 'Father and Son' recording.
2024 Paul Simon released the song 'Um vento passou', presumably as part of a collaborative project called Milton + Esperanza
2024 Art Garfunkel is set to release the album 'Father and Son' in collaboration with Art Garfunkel Jr.
2023 Ranked 246th greatest guitarist of all time by Rolling Stone
2023 A documentary titled 'In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon' featuring Paul Simon was released
May 2023 During an interview with The Times, Simon revealed he had lost most of the hearing in his left ear.
May 19 2023 Paul Simon released his most recent album, Seven Psalms.
April 10 2023 Art Garfunkel canceled his remaining concert dates and decided not to return to touring for the foreseeable future.
March 2021 Sold his music publishing catalog to Sony Music Publishing.
2020 Simon had a vivid dream that inspired him to work on 'Seven Psalms', a musical project where a voice told him he was meant to create a piece with this title.
2020 Paul Simon collaborated with Dion on 'Song for Sam Cooke (Here in America)' for the album Blues with Friends
August 11 2019 Returned to live performance by closing San Francisco's Outside Lands festival in Golden Gate Park, planning to donate net proceeds to local environmental non-profit organizations.
2018 Retired from touring, but continued to record music.
October 13 2018 Simon made his most recent SNL appearance as a musical guest on his 77th birthday.
September 22 2018 Played his final concert in Queens, New York, concluding his touring career.
September 7 2018 Paul Simon released the album 'In the Blue Light'.
May 2018 Began his farewell concert tour, 'Homeward Bound – The Farewell Tour', starting in Vancouver, Canada.
February 5 2018 Announced his intention to retire from touring, citing time away from family and the death of longtime guitarist Vincent Nguini.
2017 Art Garfunkel played the role of Dr. Saltzman in the short film 'Cecile on the Phone'.
September 26 2017 Garfunkel's memoir, What Is It All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man, was published in hardcover by Knopf Doubleday.
June 9 2017 Paul Simon released 'The Concert in Hyde Park'.
May 24 2017 Debuted a new version of 'Questions for the Angels' with jazz guitarist Bill Frisell on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
2016 By this year, Paul Simon had sold a total of seven million albums in the U.S.
2016 End of the period of significant album sales in the U.S., with seven million albums sold.
2016 Paul Simon released the song 'Wristband' on the album 'Stranger to Stranger'
2016 The song 'America' by Simon & Garfunkel was used during Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign, which Garfunkel supported for its message against wealth inequality.
July 25 2016 Performed 'Bridge over Troubled Water' at the Democratic National Convention.
June 3 2016 Paul Simon released the album 'Stranger to Stranger'.
January 30 2016 Wrote and performed the theme song for Louis C.K.'s show Horace and Pete, also making a cameo appearance in the final episode.
2015 Ranked 8th in Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time
2015 Paul Simon appeared as himself in an episode of 'Portlandia' titled 'You Can Call Me Al'
2015 Paul Simon guest-starred in an episode of 'Welcome To Sweden' titled 'American Club'
2015 Paul Simon recorded 'New York Is My Home' as a duet with Dion for the album of the same name
2015 Garfunkel concluded his walk across Europe in Istanbul.
2015 Art Garfunkel was awarded the German Sustainability Award.
September 30 2015 Garfunkel participated in a spoof skit called 'Black Simon & Garfunkel' on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
September 11 2015 Made a surprise appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, performing 'Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard' and 'An American Tune'.
April 12 2015 The compilation album 'The Ultimate Collection' was released on April 12, 2015, and achieved Platinum certification from BPI.
February 15 2015 Simon closed the 40th anniversary SNL show, performing 'Still Crazy After All These Years' and playing a snippet of 'I've Just Seen a Face' with Paul McCartney.
2014 Paul Simon voiced the character of Thurman Munson in the film 'Henry & Me'
2014 Simon embarked on a joint 21-date concert tour of North America with English musician Sting, which continued in 2015 with additional shows in Australia, New Zealand, and Europe.
2014 Garfunkel resumed touring, accompanied by Tab Laven on acoustic guitar, reporting that his voice had been restored.
April 26 2014 Simon and Edie Brickell were involved in a domestic dispute and each issued a summons for disorderly conduct.
2013 The song 'Biko' was included on the album 'I'll Scratch Yours'
2013 In February, Garfunkel expressed that his voice was improving and began to book small shows again.
October 15 2013 The retrospective album 'Over The Bridge Of Time: A Paul Simon Retrospective (1964-2011)' was released on October 15, 2013.
September 2013 Simon delivered the Richard Ellmann Lecture in Modern Literature at Emory University.
June 14 2013 Simon performed 'The Boxer' and Sting's 'Fields of Gold' with Sting during Sting's Back to Bass Tour.

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