Simon & Garfunkel’s famously contentious relationship may have healed slightly, potentially opening the door for a reunion. In a new interview with The Sunday Times, Art Garfunkel revealed he and Paul Simon recently shared a lunch where they spoke honestly with each other about their bad blood. “I actually had lunch with Paul a couple of weeks back, first time we’d been together in many years,” Garfunkel told the outlet.
“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. I cried when he told me how much I had hurt him.” He added, “Looking back, I guess I wanted to shake up the nice-guy image of Simon & Garfunkel.
You know what? I was a fool.” The duo had known each other for years before their breakout hit, “The Sound of Silence” in 1965. However, their creative partnership was a rocky one.
“We had an uneven partnership because I was writing all of the songs and basically running the sessions,” Simon said in his “In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon” documentary this year. “Artie’d be in the control room ..
. he’d say, ‘Yeah, that’s good,’ but it was an uneven balance of power.” Simon & Garfunkel parted ways after their acclaimed “Bridge Over Troubled Water” album in 1970.
Ten years later, they reunited for a concert in Central Park and tried to work together again afterward, but the same issues that plagued their earlier collaborations .
