Bridge Over Troubled Water/El Condor Pasa/Cecilia/Keep The Customer Satisfied/So Long Frank Lloyd Wright/The Boxer/Baby Driver/The Only Living Boy In New York/Why Don't You Write Me/Bye Bye Love/Song For The Asking
The folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel went out with a bang with this acclaimed collection of songs. Bridge Over Troubled Water stayed high on the UK album chart for several years and includes the US and UK chart topping title track plus the top ten hits The Boxer and Cecilia. (US:1 UK:1)
"S & G's finest hour, Bridge Over Troubled Water is one of the most powerful folk albums I've listened to and is a very fitting farewell to the duo."
"Despite some weighty and often bleak concerns, Bridge Over Troubled Water is a beautiful and surprisingly joyous work from its powerful orchestral arrangements to its gentle acoustic strumming. The towering title track opens the album in fine style and remains one of the duo’s most treasured recordings. Starting quietly and swelling to a crescendo at the end of each verse, the lyrical concerns of battling through hard times and eventually reaping your reward were complemented by some words of exceptionally deep friendship and sacrifice."
"Simon and Garfunkel create a true masterpiece for their last album. Every song is truly great. Anyone who isn't moved by the title track is no human and may be a robot. I'm not going to bore you by writing about every song so I'll just repeat myself and say every song is wonderful. Highly recommended to any music lover. You are bound to fine something beautiful on this album. Check this out."
"Bridge Over Troubled Water is one of the most transcendently beautiful pieces of music ever recorded by anyone in any genre. Building perfectly from its spare, plangent opening piano chords to the gentle thunder, lush orchestration and celestial falsetto of its final verse, this is a song that makes the simple act of comforting another human being sound like a grand and transcendent struggle."
"Simon and Garfunkel brought down the curtain on their successful 60s career with a swan-song album which they knew, as they recorded it, would be their last studio set and which correspondingly saw them go out on a high, both artistically and commercially. Paul Simon's writing had by now fully matured and demonstrates his extreme versatility with a cornucopia of styles present. Starting off at the top with the universally acknowledged classic title track and smash hit it contains several other superb pieces."
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