RELEASED IN EARLY 1970, BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER"TOPPED THE CHARTSIN 1O COUNTRIES AND BECAME THE BEST-SELLING ALBuM OFALL TIME TO THAT DATE, IT EARNED SIX GRAMMYS AND HAS GONE ON TO SELL MORE THAN 25 COPIES WORLDWIDE. BuTATTHE OF THEIR SuCCESS, AND GARFUNKEL WENT THEIR SEPARATE WAYS.
SIMONISFREEDOMENCOURAGED HIM TOEMBRACEMUSICALDIVERSITY HE WENT TO JAMAICA TO RECORD THE REGGAE FLAVORED MOTHER AND CHILD REUNION"uSED BRAZILIAN INSTRUMENTS ON MEAND JULIO DOWN BY THE SCHOOLYARD AND EXPERIMENTED WITH GOSPEL MUSIC, HE JOURNEYED TO JOHANNESBURG TO ENLIST SOUTH AFRICAN MUSICIANS, INCLUDING LADYSMITH BLACK MAMBAZa FOR THE VERY SUCCESSFUL GRACELAND"ALBUM, AND HERECORDED THE RHYTHM OF THE SAINTS" ALBUM IN BRAZIL.
SIMON GARFUNKEL HAVE REUNITED PERIODICALLY MOST NOTABLY IN THE EARLY 1980s FOR A CONCERT INCENTRAL PARK AND A WORLD TOUR. IN2003, THEY WERE REUNITED TO RECEIVE ALIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT GRAMMY FOLLOWEDBYA TOUR THAT CULMINATEDIN A FREE CONCERT AT THE COLOSSEUM INROME THAT DREW 600,000 PEOPLE(ITIS MORTHNOTNG THAT AR PAUL SIMONCONCERTINCENTRAL PARK ATTRACTEDANAUDIENCEOF 76000a) AFTER TWO PREVIous MARRIAGES(ONE TOCARRIE FISHER, SimON WED SINGEREDIE BRICKELh HE NOW HAS FOUR CHILDREN. HE HAS MADE MISSTEPS ALONG THE WAY THE FAILURE OF THE CAPEMAN"MuSICAL REPORTEDLY COST HIM MILLION DOLLARS BuT THEY ARE FAR OUTWEIGHED BY HIS TRIuMPHS, THE 12-TIME GRAMMY WINNERIS A TWO-TIME INDUCTEE INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME.