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"The Boxer" is a song written by Paul Simon and recorded by the American music duo Simon & Garfunkel from their fifth and final studio album, Bridge over Troubled Water (1970). Produced by the duo and Roy Halee , it was released as a standalone single on March 21, 1969, but included on the album nine months later (at the time, songs that had ...
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel—who’d been friends and musical compatriots since their childhood in Queens—broke up, somewhat acrimoniously, in 1970; it took fans ages to recover.
Simon and Garfunkel continued recording as solo artists: Garfunkel composed and recorded "Private World" for Octavia Records, and—under the name Artie Garr—"Beat Love" for Warwick; Simon recorded with the Mystics and Tico and the Triumphs, and wrote and recorded under the names Jerry Landis and Paul Kane.
Garfunkel felt it was not right for him; [6] he liked Simon's falsetto on the demo and suggested that Simon sing. At the suggestion of Garfunkel and producer Roy Halee , Simon wrote an extra verse and a "bigger" ending, though he felt it was less cohesive with the earlier verses. [ 17 ]
Paul Simon interrupted a performance of his hit song 'The Boxer' Friday night to break the news of Muhammad Ali’s death.
Art Garfunkel, who had studied architecture, requested that Simon write a song about the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Simon knew little about Wright, so just used his name as a substitute and instead wrote a nostalgic song about Garfunkel. [3] Garfunkel sings lead on the majority of the song while Simon sings on the bridge.
Dylan covering Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Boxer” should be an event, but he haphazardly layers two vocal takes that stumble all over each other, rendering the track unlistenable.
[2] [3] James Bennighof, author of The Words and Music of Paul Simon, considers the churning, distorted groove and electronic instrumentation an accompanying textural element to the subject matter: suicidal suburban youth. [4] "Save the Life of My Child" is a dramatic story involving drugs, violence and a mother and child relationship.