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Bookends is the fourth studio album by the American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel. Produced by Paul Simon , Art Garfunkel and Roy Halee , the album was released on April 3, 1968, in the United States by Columbia Records .
"Bookends", also known as "Bookends Theme", is a song by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel from their fourth studio album, Bookends (1968). It appears twice on the track listing, as the first (shortened version) and last (known as the Reprise ) songs on side one of the original vinyl LP .
Bookend terrace, an architectural term for a terrace of identical houses, framed at each end by a pair of enlarged houses; Framing device, an element of a story or musical composition occurring at its beginning and repeating at its end; Book end vortices, vortices that form at the ends of a large storm system or derecho
The short companion song "Bookends Theme (Reprise)," addresses loss and the fleeting nature of memories, and of time spent together. On the album "Old Friends," the title generally conveys the introduction or ending of sections, and the song builds upon a "rather loose formal structure" that at first includes an acoustic guitar and soft mood.
Heavy bookends—made of wood, bronze, marble, and even large geodes—have been used in libraries, stores, and homes for centuries; the simple sheetmetal bookend (originally patented in 1877 by William Stebbins Barnard) [1] uses the weight of the books standing on its foot to clamp the bookend's tall brace against the last book's back; in ...
About three years ago there were suddenly a rash of ladies throwing themselves down garbage chutes in Chicago to commit s*icide. All within a year or so timeframe. Generally in the same area downtown.
The company employed about 130 people in Chicago in the late 1980s. [5] Collectors provide a market for resale of the statues, but they are not generally valued highly in monetary terms. [6] In 1996, the company was owned by B. Paul Brueggemeier and was having to leave its factory at 850 North Ogden to make way for a town house development. [7]
This store was expanded in 1876, only to be destroyed by fire again in November 1877. Ever tenacious, Field and Leiter had a new temporary store opened by the end of the month at a lakefront exposition hall they leased temporarily from the city, located at what is now the site of the present Art Institute of Chicago. Meanwhile, the Singer ...