The post Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” Takes Us Inside The Graduate appeared first on Consequence of Sound. Benjamin Braddock is staring down the barrel of his future — and he’s terrified ...

Simon wrote "The Sounds of Silence" the year before while living with his parents. “The main thing about playing the guitar was that I was able to sit by myself and play and dream,” Simon later told ...

Ultimate Classic Rock reports Simon wrote “The Sound of Silence” in 1964. The track, originally titled “The Sounds of Silence,” was part of the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. The album was not a ...

In recent years, Simon & Garfunkel’s 1964 signature “The Sound of Silence” has been transformed from a folk-rock classic into a meme, made to soundtrack running jokes between the internet and the ...

It was a perfect statement of the folk-rock sound, incorporating the truth and soul of the folk world with the amplification and style of the post-Beatles music world. Simon & Garfunkel quickly became ...

It’s been 50 years since Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” topped Billboard magazine’s pop singles chart. But it’s been almost 52 years since the song was first recorded. What happened in ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Simon And ...

It was the sound of running water — not the sound of silence. That was the mundane muse behind the angelic ascension of “The Sound of Silence” — the chart-topping classic that had Simon & Garfunkel ...

After un-retiring from the road, Queens native Paul soaked in the hometown love at NYC's Beacon Theatre on Monday night. Only Paul Simon could command the sound of silence like this. In the opening ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Disturbed’s “Sound of Silence” has been experiencing something of a ...