It is one of the enduring mysteries in pop history: why did one of the most popular and impactful musical partnerships of modern times break up after just five years? Now Paul Simon, the songwriting maestro behind the 1960s duo Simon & Garfunkel, is opening up about his breakup with Art Garfunkel, his boyhood friend from Queens, New York, and vocalist with whom he vaulted to the top of the charts. "We had a period from 1968 to 1970 - like from 'The Graduate' to 'Bridge Over Troubled Waters' - where we were probably as big as the Beatles," Simon told David Axelrod during a special episode of "The Axe Files" podcast, produced by the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN.
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