![]() ![]() This second version peaked at #1 in the U.S., and charted in 7 others countries, becoming one of the most successful remixes of all-time.Ī third version of the song was released in 1982 on their internationally successful live album, The Concert in Central Park. Columbia released the amplified Silence, which became a hit before Simon and Garfunkel had even heard it. Exciting New Sounds in the Folk Tradition Album OctoComments Nr 1 US on single with overdubs late '65. Later in ‘65, while Simon was in England, Tom Wilson, producer of Bob Dylan’s “Like A Rolling Stone” asked members of Dylan’s studio band to add electric guitar and drums. The Sounds of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel Added by David King Written by Paul Simon Language English First recorded on MaReleased on Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. Paul Simon originally wrote the song as an acoustic ballad for their debut, Wednesday Morning, 3 AM, but Simon & Garfunkel’s first single version died and the album was considered a commercial failure. Do I want to stay with that subject or shut it down?“ (Hilton, Paul Simon, pp. I don’t ever set out to write a song about something, though after a while it becomes apparent in the construction of a song that I’m writing about something. I’m not saying the song isn’t about that, but it wasn’t my intention, and that’s still true of my writing today. Whatever came out, I didn’t sit down to write a song about alienation in America. Simon himself denies that he tried to write a song about anything in particular: Much to Simon’s delight, his father, Lou–a career musician who refused to flatter his son with untruths about the quality of his compositions–loved the song immediately and had him play it for some of his musician friends, who also praised it. Slowly, he began reflecting on thoughts that had been nagging at him for months: the way people ignored the words of those, from musicians to religious leaders, who preached against injustice and excess materialism.Īs he sat alone, these words eventually burst forth: “Hello darkness, my old friend.” (Hilton, Paul Simon: The Life, Simon and Schuster, 2018, p. ![]() It was around then that he hit some warmly evocative notes that he played over and over again. Simon’s biographer Robert Hilton describes Simon locking himself in his family’s bathroom in the nights after the Kennedy assassination: This track about the inability of people to communicate emotionally, was thought by many to be a response to the Kennedy assassination as it was written during the same time and then released three months later in 1964.
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