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We wrap it back around to Simon & Garfunkel, and their take on the anger and disappointment, on the turmoil of the late 1960s. Wayne Kramer of the MC5 has some things to say about that, and about a fateful MC5 gig at the Fillmore East.įinally, we’ll meet one of our favorite artists ever, who came from the same scene as the MC5: Iggy Pop. AMOYSTONE Rose Quartz Crystal Rock Bookends Pink Book Ends for Book Office Home, 3-4 Lbs 1 Pair. We meet a Factory hang-around, an angry young woman with good reasons to be angry, but she takes it way too far, with tragic consequences.Īnd we’ll meet the first Punk Rock band: The MC5, and the revolutionary political milieu they occupied. We get to know Lou and the Velvets, and the scene from which they sprang: Andy Warhol’s Factory. We follow him for a little while and he leads us to.Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground. We meet Tom Wilson, the first African-American staff producer at Columbia Records. Tom oversaw the first two Simon & Garfunkel albums. The duo had risen to fame two years prior with the albums Sounds of Silence and Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme and the soundtrack. Agate Book End Teal Agate Bookend Pair - 6 to 9 lb - Geode Bookend - Home Decor - Crystal and Stones. Agate Book End Purple Agate Bookend Pair - 3 to 6 lb - Geode Bookend - Crystal and Stones. It measures 5 1/2' wide x 5 1/2' tall x 3 1/2' thick and has a nice polish. This design gives this unusual set a lot of character and each one is very unique. Produced by Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel and Roy Halee, the album was released on April 3, 1968, in the United States by Columbia Records. Agate Book End - Blue Dyed Half Geode Druzy Bookend Rock Formation - Lovely Book Ends 1-3 lb (BKE1) 34.00. BK502b Here's something different from The Rock Shed, an exceptional set of bookends made from Sea Jasper. We skip work on a cold January afternoon to catch a movie: Mike Nichols’ “The Graduate.” It’s a generation milestone of a film, and Simon & Garfunkel’s music is a big part of that what’s more, we argue, it’s a different kind of soundtrack, something new in film and popular culture. Bookends is the fourth studio album by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel. Our story takes place mostly in New York City: a city big enough to spawn two very different, very talented-and very influential-artists: Paul Simon and Lou Reed. And a rock can feel no pain, and an island never cries.Chapter 17 of Rock N Roll Archaeology is bookended by a couple of Simon & Garfunkel albums: “Bookends” from the spring of 1968 and “Bridge Over Troubled Water” from January of 1970. I have my books, and my poetry to protect me, I am shielded in my armor, hiding in my room, safe within my womb, I touch no one and no one touches me. Handmade from lava rock sourced from eruptions in Indonesia, these weighty bookends add a touch of nature to your library. I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died, if I never loved, I never would have cried. I have no need for friendship, friendship causes pain, it's laughter and it's loving I disdain.ĭon't talk of love, well I've heard the word before It's sleeping in my memory. I built walls, a fortress steep and mighty, that none may penetrate. An "I Am a Rock" extended play also exists, featuring "Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall", " The Sound of Silence", and " Blessed".Īn alternate recording of the song was featured as a bonus track on its original album as part of the box set Paul Simon: Collected Works in 1981.Ī winter's day, in a deep and dark December, I am alone, gazing from my window, to the streets below, on a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow. Simon & Garfunkel recorded the song together for their album Sounds of Silence when they got back together in 1965, and this version was released as a single in 1966, backed with " Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall", reaching #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was released as the only single from that album, backed with " Leaves That Are Green". " I Am a Rock" is a song by Simon & Garfunkel which was originally written and recorded by Paul Simon for his solo début The Paul Simon Songbook.