Art Garfunkel

In January 2019, Paul Simon awoke from a dream. Some voice in his head had informed him, deep within his REM cycle, that he was going to work on a project called “Seven Psalms.” The singer-songwriter behind “The Sound of Silence,” “A Bridge Over Troubled Waters,” “Love Me Like a Rock,” and several dozen other songs that have likely been part of the soundtrack of your life, willingly or unwillingly, had effectively been retired for several years. Music-wise, he had nothing on deck except for this lovely little riff he’d…

Paul Simon discusses his songwriting and legacy in the trailer for In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon, available exclusively at Rolling Stone. “People used to say, ‘Oh, you have your finger on the pulse,'” the 82-year-old musician says in the clip. “No, I don’t have my finger on the pulse. I just have my finger out there …and the pulse is running under it.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdbIltM69Xg The trailer shows Simon throughout his nearly seven-decade career, from his early songwriting…

Art Garfunkel Jr.’s first memory of singing onstage with his father is pretty hazy, but he knows it took place in Japan sometime before his third birthday. “I believe I was pushed out in a wheelbarrow, wearing a traditional Japanese kimono,” he tells Rolling Stone. “My parents picked me up and I sang a little bit of the high part of ‘Feelin’ Groovy.'” For most children of rock stars, this would be little more than a sweet, one-off moment. For Art Garfunkel Jr., 33, it was the start of a career singing his father’s…