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Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel: Episode 173

Ep. 173

Hello, Darkness, my old friend.. This week we'll hear everything BUT the Sound Of Silence as we journey across a Bridge Over Troubled Water with Simon & Garfunkel! They wrote and recorded their final album while the breakup was imminent. We'll talk about this career retrospective and try to count all the times these childhood best friends quit speaking (spoiler alert, it's a LOT). Then the Mixtaper has a golden ticket as he takes us from Jasper and Jinx to a worldwide boycott! Learn about the Peruvian anthem Paul Simon accidentally stole, the tape recorder party that birthed Cecilia, and the hundred hours the duo poured into The Boxer with us!


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0:00 Intro

4:11 Hello Darkness, My Old Friend...

5:41 About Simon & Garfunkel

21:32 About Bridge Over Troubled Water

24:14 Breakup & Aftermath

30:03 Awards & Accolades

31:27 Fact Or Spin

32:25 Jasper & Jinx

36:16 Garfunkel Almost Won The Golden Ticket

39:26 Garfunkel Went 4 Years Without Speaking

42:34 Paul Simon Was Boycotted By The World

47:23 Album Art

48:42 Bridge Over Troubled Water

53:30 El Condor Pasa (If I Could)

56:34 Cecilia

58:37 Keep The Customer Satisfied

59:55 So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright

1:02:03 The Boxer

1:07:51 Baby Driver

1:09:27 The Only Living Boy In New York

1:11:22 Why Don't You Write Me

1:12:26 Bye Bye Love (Live At Memorial Auditorium)

1:14:38 Song For The Asking

1:16:05 Final Spin

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