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Art Garfunkel opens up on Paul Simon's decision to go solo

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EXCLUSIVE: Art Garfunkel reveals Paul Simon's decision to go solo was a 'surprise blow to the gut' and admits he took the role in film Catch-22 as a way of 'socking it to Paul' in new memoir Art Garfunkel considered himself the underdog in the singing duo that won six Grammy Awards and induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame In a new memoir, What Is It All But Luminous, Notes from an Underground Man , Art reveals how the two singers often competed against each other Despite being a co-producer, he was always waiting for Paul who wrote the songs and played the guitar He admits he took a role in the film Catch-22, as a means to 'socking it to Paul, making him feel bad he wasn't given an acting role' In 1958, Garfunkel felt what he describes as 'betrayal' when he got a phone call telling him that Paul had released a record under the name of True Taylor A friendship that began in 1954 at ... (more)


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