{"id":41204,"date":"2008-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-concert-in-central-park-2\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T00:00:00","slug":"the-concert-in-central-park-2","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/the-concert-in-central-park-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Concert In Central Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Most people have forgotten what a big deal Simon &#038; Garfunkel\u2019s free concert in <st1:place>Central Park<\/st1:place> was at the time. After the release of <i>Bridge Over Troubled Water, <\/i>the duo had gradually gone their separate ways. There had been a 1972 concert in Madison Square Garden for presidential candidate George McGovern, a 1975 appearance on <i>Saturday Night Live<\/i>, plus they had recorded a single together titled \u201cMy Little Town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">By 1981, Simon &#038; Garfunkel had taken on a legendary status, and so on <st1:date year=\"1981\" day=\"19\" month=\"9\">September 19th<sup>,<\/sup>  1981<\/st1:date>, the lawn of <st1:state><st1:place>New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>\u2019s <st1:place>Central Park<\/st1:place> was covered by several hundred thousand people who had turned out to see this free reunion concert. This performance would be recorded live and released as a two-disc vinyl album on <st1:date year=\"1982\" day=\"16\" month=\"2\">February 16th, 1982<\/st1:date>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>The Concert In Central Park <\/i>found the duo updating their sound with a full band, including synthesizers and a brass section, providing backing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The album also shows just what wonderful vocalists Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel were and how perfectly they fit together. It also proved that they could provide perfect renditions of their songs live without relying on any studio recording techniques.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The song selection was impeccable. The concert begins with \u201cMrs, Robinson\u201d which quickly established the fact that Simon &#038; Garfunkel are alive and very well. \u201cHomeward Bound,\u201d \u201c<st1:country-region><st1:place>America<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>,\u201d the Paul Simon solo hit \u201cMe And Julio Down By The Schoolyard,\u201d and \u201cScarborough Fair\u201d quickly follow and are all presented perfectly but with a modern sheen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Side two begins with the gentle folk hit \u201cApril Comes She Will\u201d and then moves to an Everly Brothers tribute song, \u201cWake Up Little Susie.\u201d They had based their original sound upon that of the Everlys and were one of the few artists who were able to mimic them perfectly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The \u201cKodachrome\/Maybelline\u201d medley was an inspirational pairing of two songs that don\u2019t seem to fit together. \u201cBridge Over Troubled Water\u201d just soared out into the night with some of the purest vocals ever captured live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The concert ends with the poignancy of \u201cOld Friends,\u201d the goofiness of \u201cThe <st1:street><st1:address>59<sup>th<\/sup> Street<\/st1:address><\/st1:street> Bridge Song (Feelin\u2019 Groovy),\u201d and the quiet beauty of \u201cThe Sound Of Silence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i>The Concert In Central Park <\/i>was and remains one of the best live albums ever recorded. It captured one of music\u2019s legendary duos at their best and also showed what the music world had been missing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":27615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7683],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-41204","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-simon-garfunkel","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41204"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}