@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1968, Folk Rock, Baroque Folk Pop, Queens, New York 7/26 Matrix #: Columbia KCS 9529 Condition: VG+ (LM) | Members: Paul S (41' - Alive), Art G (41' - Alive) Cultural Facts:
Personal Struggle: Simon and Garfunkel were childhood friends with growing creative tension, and the emotional distance between them helped set up the breakup that followed their next album.
Studio Lore: Bookends blends folk harmonies with studio experimentation, spoken-word fragments, orchestration, and darker songs about aging, memory, and American disillusionment.
Media Narrative: With “Mrs. Robinson” tied to The Graduate, the duo became voices of late-60s youth culture while also writing about loneliness, suburbia, and lost innocence.
