Musician Art Garfunkel recently reunited with on-again/off-again musical partner Paul Simon, looking to reconcile their differences and make amends.
The pop-folk duo, known for such hits as “Mrs. Robinson,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “The Boxer,” “The Sound of Silence” and others, first broke up in 1970.
In an interview with The Sunday Times, Mr. Garfunkel said he “actually had lunch with Paul a couple of weeks back. First time we’d been together in many years. I looked at Paul and said, ‘What happened? Why haven’t we seen each other?’”
At a dinner and afterward at Mr. Garfunkel’s apartment, the pair spoke about their emotional ups and downs over the years.
Mr. Garfunkel said he apologized for 2015 comments he made to the British newspaper the Telegraph, in which he agreed with the interviewer’s implication that the shorter Mr. Simon has a Napoleon complex and in which he also called Mr. Simon a “jerk” and an “idiot.”
“I hurt him when I spoke to the English press. It brought tears to remember that I had hurt him. It led to a very warm hug … It moved me more than I realize myself. My deep soul connection is so bound with Paul,” Mr. Garfunkel told Rolling Stone on Monday.
Mr. Garfunkel told The Sunday Times that “Looking back, I guess I wanted to shake up the nice guy image of Simon & Garfunkel. Y’know what? I was a fool! … For me, it was about wanting to make amends before it’s too late. It felt like we were back in a wonderful place. As I think about it now, tears are rolling down my cheeks. I can still feel his hug.”
As for any future musical work together, Mr. Garfunkel said it remains to be seen.
“We’ll see. You never know. It was always the case where when we would hang out, and he would say, ‘Let me show you what I’ve been working on lately.’ And he’d take out the guitar and he would play something. And I would fall for it because he is a genius,” Mr. Garfunkel told Rolling Stone.
Previous reunions included the 1975 Top 10 hit “My Little Town,” the second-ever episode of “Saturday Night Live” also in 1975, a 1981 concert in New York City’s Central Park and a resulting tout, at the 1990 ceremony for their induction into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame, the 2003 Grammy Awards when they received a Lifetime Achievement Award, and a 2003-2004 tour that ended with a concert in Rome in front of the Colosseum.
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