Art Garfunkel shed some gentle on his relationship with former music collaborator Paul Simon.
Garfunkel not too long ago make clear his relationship with former collaborator throughout an look on Live with Kelly and Mark on Wednesday, Dec. 11.
The 83-year-old folks singer, joined by his son Art 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 suppose you may ever reconnect with Paul Simon?” Garfunkel Sr. responded candidly.
“This is the query they all the time ask me about that,” he shared.
“I am unable to communicate for him. It’s actually his life. I do know we met up not too long ago for the primary time in years. We had a interval of estrangement for some years till — he has a son that moved into the place that I dwell in, and I knew I used to be going to run into Harper [Simon]. Harper arrange a dinner, and Paul and I frolicked, first time in years. And it was very touching.”
Garfunkel additionally addressed their reunion in a latest interview with The Times, revealed on Nov. 11.
“First time we’d been collectively in a few years,” he mentioned, recalling their assembly earlier this fall. “I checked out Paul and mentioned, ‘What occurred? Why haven’t we seen one another?’ Paul talked about an previous interview the place I mentioned some stuff.”
Simon & Garfunkel rose to fame between 1964 and 1970, releasing 5 studio albums, together with hits like Bridge Over Troubled Water.
Despite their musical success, the duo’s relationship has been famously strained. They’ve reunited on uncommon events, resembling their iconic 1981 profit live performance in Central Park, however have remained distant for a lot of the previous few many years.
