Artwork Garfunkel on reunion with Paul Simon
Artwork Garfunkel shed some gentle on his relationship with former music collaborator Paul Simon.
Garfunkel lately make clear his relationship with former collaborator throughout an look on Reside with Kelly and Mark on Wednesday, Dec. 11.
The 83-year-old people singer, joined by his son Artwork Garfunkel Jr. as a part of their duo Garfunkel & Garfunkel, mirrored on reconnecting with Simon after years of distance.
When host Kelly Ripa requested, “Do you think you’ll ever reconnect with Paul Simon?” Garfunkel Sr. responded candidly.
“This is the question they always ask me about that,” he shared.
“I can’t speak for him. It’s really his life. I know we met up recently for the first time in years. We had a period of estrangement for some years until — he has a son that moved into the place that I live in, and I knew I was going to run into Harper [Simon]. Harper set up a dinner, and Paul and I hung out, first time in years. And it was very touching.”
Garfunkel additionally addressed their reunion in a latest interview with The Occasions, printed on Nov. 11.
“First time we’d been together in many years,” he stated, recalling their assembly earlier this fall. “I looked at Paul and said, ‘What happened? Why haven’t we seen each other?’ Paul mentioned an old interview where I said some stuff.”
Simon & Garfunkel rose to fame between 1964 and 1970, releasing 5 studio albums, together with hits like Bridge Over Troubled Water.
Regardless of their musical success, the duo’s relationship has been famously strained. They’ve reunited on uncommon events, corresponding to their iconic 1981 profit live performance in Central Park, however have remained distant for a lot of the previous few many years.