Much of the material was crafted alongside producer John Simon who joined the recording when Paul Simon suffered from writers block.
Simons lyrics concern youth disillusionment relationships old age and mortality. Side two largely consists of unused material for The Graduate soundtrack. Side one of the album marks successive stages in life the theme serving as bookends to the life cycle. Bookends is a concept album that explores a life journey from childhood to old age. The duo had risen to fame two years prior with the albums Sounds of Silence and Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme and the soundtrack album for the 1967 film The Graduate. Produced by Paul Simon Roy Halee and Art Garfunkel the album was released on Apin the United States by Columbia Records. Bookends is the fourth studio album by Simon & Garfunkel. Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket.
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Offered for sale is a scarce Japanese pressing of Simon & Garfunkel’s LP, Bookends, complete with the obi, lyric insert and poster.Ībout this copy: This copy of Bookends is a 1973 Japanese pressing of an album that was originally released in 1968.
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