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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 ...
"The Boxer" is a song recorded by English electronic music duo the Chemical Brothers for their fifth studio album Push the Button (2005). It served as the album's third single in the United Kingdom and Europe, released by Virgin Records and Freestyle Dust, and as the second single in the United States via Astralwerks.
The one song on the collection that had not been released before was a cover of Simon and Garfunkel's "The Boxer".After their 1989 album Heart Like a Sky and its four singles performed poorly in the UK, [1] the band decided to record a song under the pretense of beginning to work on a new album in order to receive a payment from their record company.
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The lyrics of "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" reference the architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, who died in 1959. [4] Art Garfunkel had studied to become an architect. [4] [5] [6] While Garfunkel sings the song's fadeout to the words "so long," producer and engineer Roy Halee is heard on the recording calling out "So long already Artie!"
A 1955 version of the sheet music states that it is "sung by Sam Stern" and "Dedicated to my friend Sam Dody". [ 2 ] Subsequent versions changed the references from the boxer John L. Sullivan to the " Jeffries-Johnson fight " of 1910, to American boxer Jack Dempsey , who started boxing in 1914, and even to John Conteh of Great Britain, who ...
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Gabriele Tinti has worked with the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Roman Museum, the Capitoline Museums, The Ara Pacis, the National Archaeological Museum, Naples and the Glyptothek of Munich composing poems for ancient works of art including the Boxer at Rest, [1] the Discobolus, Arundel Head, the ...