Bullshit overcome? Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel have an emotional reunion

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel They had a tumultuous relationship throughout much of their lives. Even when they were hugely successful in the 1960s as the duo Simon & Garfunkelthe former schoolmates had their differences — which have not been left aside even in recent times, with the right to provocations in the last decade.

However, the situation appears to be changing. At the age of 83, the two had an emotional reunion, described by Garfunkel in an interview with Rolling Stone USA.

The artist declared that the rapprochement began after a chance meeting with his eldest son. Paul, HarperSimonat the Pierre hotel in New York, in the United States. The musician’s ex-wife and mother of Harper, Peggy Harperwas moving to the location. art it says:

I knew this would happen at some point. AND Harper booked a lunch at the Pierre restaurant. After years of separation, Paul and I got along really well.”

The feeling of the finiteness of life, caused by old age, made Garfunkel valued the opportunity for reconciliation. He comments:

You can’t go through life and be mad at someone. You must overcome. You must solve the difficulties so that you can die easily.”

After the meal, art even took Paul to visit your room in the same hotel. In the middle of the conversation, the two remembered a controversial interview given by Garfunkel in 2015, where, at the The Telegraphexpressed his upset that his “idiot” colleague had “abandoned a lucky place at the top of the world” — in reference to the end of the successful duo — and declared that he only became friends with Simon as a child because he felt “sorry for his height”.

I upset him when I spoke to the English press. I cried when I remembered that I hurt him. This led to a very warm hug… It moved me more than I imagined. I have a deep soul connection with Paul. We laughed a lot. We were musicians, but we were jokers. We loved it Lenny Bruce (comedian) from the beginning.”

Non-musical meeting

In another interview, with The Sun, Art Garfunkel made it clear that reconciliation does not involve the resumption of the project Simon & Garfunkel. The duo last performed in 2010, after a break-up in 1970 and sporadic reunions just for shows.

Even so, Garfunkel is happy to have reconnected with Paul Simon. He says:

I like to think I’m a man who has a lot of love. None of my relationships lack love. I love everyone. I can’t imagine maintaining a conflicted position for long. Everything must be resolved so that we can die in peace.”