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It is easily their best-selling album in the U.S., and holds the record in the U.S. for the best-selling album by a duo. In 2003, the album was ranked No. 293 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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Aug 31, 2024 · Location: London, UK. The live tracks are fantastic performances, but I’m probably biased because for at least 25 years they were the only versions of the songs I knew. We had the Greatest Hits cassette as one of only a handful of tapes we owned in the early 70s, so it got a lot of play. Willowman, Aug 31, 2024. #19.
- Bookends (1968) “I think Paul wrote this when he was about 21… It’s the story about life…. From the beginnings to it’s end. How a 21 kid could have the insight to write about youth, midlife, to old age and death is beyond me….
- Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) “Its hard to improve on perfection but in this case it true.. without douth one of the greatest albums of all time and this coming from someone whose record collection contains everything from classical to metallica!
- Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966) “This album is pretty cool to listen to, a bit mellow and melancholy in parts, but flawless vocals and music.
- Wednesday Morning, 3 AM (1964) “I was surprised to hear some traditional and some especially religious (Christian) songs on an S&M album. I learned a couple of things about this duo who scraped together different styles as they were developing their own harmonic sounds.
The release was a massive international hit, charting in the Top Ten in nine different countries. “Greatest Hits” has sold over 14-million copies in the United States alone, making it the ...
If you’ve never understood why Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel are together hailed as musical legends, here’s your proof: fourteen quintessential, timeless 60’s pop songs. Not often has a greatest hits album been so comprehensive, representative, and yet concise.
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The Greatest Hits’ success was all the more remarkable because Simon & Garfunkel’s previous five studio albums were still selling at a strong pace, indicating how much they were missed since breaking up two years earlier.
