"Bridge over Troubled Water" is the title song of Simon &
Garfunkel's final album together, released January 26, 1970, though
it also appears on the live album "Simon & Garfunkel, Live
1969." It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on
February 28, 1970, and stayed at the top of the chart for six
weeks. "Bridge over Troubled Water" also topped the adult
contemporary chart in the U.S. for six weeks.
This song's recording process exposed many of the underlying
tensions that eventually led to the breakup of the duo after the
album's completion. Most notably, Paul Simon has repeatedly
expressed regret over his insistence that Art Garfunkel sing this
song as a solo, as it focused attention on Garfunkel and relegated
Simon to a secondary position. Art Garfunkel initially did not want
to sing lead vocal, feeling it was not right for him. "He felt I
should have done it," Paul Simon revealed to Rolling Stone in
1972.
Garfunkel said that the moment when he performed it at a 1972
Madison Square Garden benefit concert, as part of a one-off reunion
with Simon, was "almost biblical."
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