Michiel
Aug-11-2016, 07:16 GMT
Netherlands
 | On fox61.com I read parts of a recent interview (July 2016) in which Paul clarifies more detailed than ever what exact feelings and discussions played their role in the 1970 S&G breakup. Of course I already knew this info, but I was surprised by the wording of Paul, making me better understand what it exactly was. See the below fragment
....During the conversation, recorded this week in Philadelphia, where he was on hand to perform at the Democratic National Convention, Simon said the “imbalance” he felt as the songwriter and guitarist, combined with Garfunkel’s interest in pursuing an acting career, created tensions and led him to pull the plug on their partnership after five of the best-selling albums in history.
“You get on each other’s nerves. People, you know, they want to go one direction, [but] somebody wants to go in another direction. In our case, what we had was a real unbalance in that I wrote all the songs and played guitar and then we sang, so we weren’t balanced,” he said.
Simon said his resentment grew when Garfunkel began to pursue a separate career in movies.
“Art went down for long periods of time to Mexico to shoot [“Catch-22″] and he wanted to be in the movies, as well as do [music],” Simon said. “So he said, ‘Well OK, the way I see it is I’ll do movies for six months and you’ll write songs and then I’ll come back and then I’ll sing, you know for six months.’ And I thought, ‘Yeah, the hell with that. That’s not going to happen.'”
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Michiel
Aug-11-2016, 07:21 GMT
Netherlands
| This fragment explains it all to me:
The last straw, Simon said, was when Garfunkel accepted a role in the film “Carnal Knowledge” and never told him about it.
“I said, ‘Why didn’t you tell me?’ And he said, ‘I was afraid that you’d stop working on this [music] if I told you.’ So that really pissed me off and I just decided that’s the end of that. I don’t want to do this anymore,” Simon said. |
Michiel
Aug-12-2016, 08:50 GMT
Netherlands
| It's a very interesting interview. I think I had forgotten that Paul initially also would be playing a role in Catch 22 too. On Trump he says literally "...I think he is wrong and dangerous..." |
Michiel
Aug-12-2016, 08:54 GMT
Netherlands
| (I now realize Bodo posted this interview already on July 28... thanks Bodo and apologies for the creating of what I thought was a new topic, which in fact wasn't) |
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