The song became a “neighborhood hit,” according to Simon, and marked the first copyrighted song by the duo, who were going under the name Tom and Jerry—Garfunkel was “Tom Graph” to Simon’s “Jerry ...

When Paul Simon first arrived in Britain in the mid-1960s, he was still an emerging American songwriter searching for inspiration. What he found was Martin Carthy, one of England’s most respected folk ...

Paul Simon has written some of the most iconic songs in music history. However, there is one tune he believes will last for 100 years, and it's a Simon & Garfunkel classic. In a 2025 conversation with ...

When Paul Simon first came to Britain in the mid-1960s, he was still in the early stages of his music career as a songwriter and was in search of inspiration. That’s when he bumped into Martin Carthy, ...