Simon & Garfunkel News

We would all be very blessed if we could count someone in our lives who has remained a steadfast friend since the fifth grade.

"Hello darkness my old friend. I've come to talk with you again." These are the opening lines of The Sound of Silence , a popular song of the 1960s by Simon and Garfunkel.

Robert S. McNamara, the Pentagon chief who directed the escalation of the Vietnam War despite private doubts about it, died Monday at 93 at his Washington, D.C., home.

For your holiday weekend entertainment pleasure, a tribute to our founding fathers, mixed with disgust over the country's current direction, created by conservative talk radio host Mike Church, and sung to the Simon and Garfunkel hit "Mrs. Robinson" :

The beauty of simplicity shone brightly in Perth last night. The closing show in the long-awaited Simon and Garfunkel tour of Australia was a perfect study of what you can do with two voices, a guitar, beautiful melodies and thoughtful lyrics.

Of course there's fireworks aplenty during this weekend's 4th of July celebrations.

In my early career days, a compact Walkman was a constant companion. It secretly came with me in my jeans or formal dark blue blazer.

PAUL Simon and Art Garfunkel dazzled Adelaide's packed Ent Cent last night in what is sure to be one of the year's most talked about performances.

The other day I went to one of my relativea s place for dinner and we sat down to watch an old DVD of a Simon and Garfunkel concert.

HOWEVER - he knows nothing. Has no idea who Fats Domino is or Simon and Garfunkel for that matter.

Simon and Garfunkel surprised fans yesterday in the Yarra Valley outside Melbourne when they performed for the victims of the recent Bushfires.

SPORTS couple Greg Norman and Chris Evert have paid an emotional visit to the recovering town of Marysville before helping to raise $36,000 at a bushfire fundraising event highlighted by iconic folk duo Simon and Garfunkel Marysville was ravaged by the February 7 fire which killed 34 people and destroyed hundreds of homes.

Gray-haired couples swayed in their seats at Beit Shmuel's Hirsch Theater on Sunday night while teenagers swayed with their phones, and fiftysomethings danced in the aisles.

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel are bona-fide legends. No doubt about it. To watch Simon & Garfunkel perform together is equal parts privilege and historic.

To paraphrase Simon and Garfunkel: Where have you gone, Mark Sanford? For the past few days, journalists, politicians, South Carolinians, bloggers, and your wife wondered about your whereabouts.

In Section: Music Blog >> Posted By: Jamie Gadette Another trip down memory lane this week as The Lemonheads and Dinosaur Jr.

Let's be clear from the outset: I'm a born and bred Wellingtonian and one-eyed Hurricanes supporter conditioned to think of Auckland as a pretentious city of arrogant yuppies and hotspot of gang warfare.

The Lemonheads Varshons The End ESSENTIAL "Layin' Up With Linda'' The Lemonheads play at the Wellfleet Beachcomber on July 2. Head Lemonhead Evan Dando has always had a magic touch with cover songs.

Back from a busy weekend in Auckland. Simon & Garfunkel played. Twice. And I went to both shows.

Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon have reunited in harmony. The duo of the '60s is staring down 70, writes Tiffany Bakker.