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Artists covered in the show include Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Seger, Billy Joel, and Don McLean.
Dozens of other cultural and popular icons got their start in the Village's nightclub, theater, and coffeehouse scene during the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, notably besides Bob Dylan, there were Jimi Hendrix, Barbra Streisand, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Bette Midler, The Lovin ' Spoonful, Simon & Garfunkel, Liza Minnelli, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Eric Andersen, Joan Baez, The Velvet Underground, The Kingston Trio, Carly Simon, Richie Havens, Maria Muldaur, Tom Paxton, Janis Ian, Phil Ochs, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, and Nina Simone among others.
* 1941 – Paul Simon, American singer and musician ( Simon & Garfunkel )
" John Holmstrom, founding editor of Punk magazine, recalls feeling " punk rock had to come along because the rock scene had become so tame that like Billy Joel and Simon and Garfunkel were being called rock and roll, when to me and other fans, rock and roll meant this wild and rebellious music.
* The song ' Scarborough Fair ' ( popularised by Simon and Garfunkel ) has the refrain " Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme " which is also the title of their third studio album.
Simon & Garfunkel were an American music duo consisting of singer-songwriters Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.
As Simon & Garfunkel, the duo rose to fame in 1965, largely on the strength of the hit single " The Sound of Silence ".
Simon & Garfunkel have, at times, reunited to perform and sometimes tour together.
Close friends through childhood, Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel grew up in the predominantly Jewish neighborhood Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, New York, just three blocks away from each other.
They met in elementary school in 1953, when they both appeared in the school play Alice in Wonderland ( Simon as the White Rabbit, Garfunkel as the Cheshire Cat ).
They were classmates at Parsons Junior High School and Forest Hills High School, and began performing together in their junior year as Tom and Jerry, with Simon as Jerry Landis ( whose last name he borrowed from a girl he had been dating ) and Garfunkel as Tom Graph ( so called because he was fond of tracking (" graphing ") hits on the pop charts ).
Both Simon and Garfunkel have acknowledged the tremendous impact of the Everly Brothers on their style, and many of their early songs ( including " Hey, Schoolgirl ") bear the mark of this influence.
Subsequent efforts in 1958 did not reach near their initial success, and after high school the duo went to separate colleges, with Simon enrolling at Queens College and Garfunkel at Columbia University.
Simon, who had finished college but dropped out of Brooklyn Law School, had – like Garfunkel – developed an interest in the folk scene.
Simon showed Garfunkel a few songs that he had written in the folk style: " Sparrow ", " Bleecker Street ", and " He Was My Brother ", which was later dedicated to Andrew Goodman, a friend of both Simon and Garfunkel and a classmate of Simon's at Queens College, who was one of three civil rights workers murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, on June 21, 1964.
Simon & Garfunkel at Schiphol Airport, Netherlands | the Netherlands in 1966.
A few months earlier Simon and Garfunkel had briefly reunited and experimented with a more contemporary sound and recorded a couple of songs including " Groovy Thing ".

Simon and returned
Simon immediately returned to the United States and the duo re-formed to record more tracks in a similar style, though neither approved of what Wilson had done with " The Sound of Silence ".
As the situation returned to normal, Simon Maurice, judging that Bonzi had become unsafe, decided to transfer the French military station to Yamoussoukro, where the French Administration built a pyramid to the memory of Kouassi N ' Go, Chief of the Akoué.
Shortly after the death of his uncle ( who left him as his universal heir ), Henry IV returned to Wroclaw, where he found himself under the direct care of one of the closest advisers of his late father, Simon Gallicusa.
After acting in the western movies The Tin Star ( 1957 ) and Warlock ( 1959 ), Fonda returned to the production seat for the NBC western television series The Deputy ( 1959 – 1961 ), in which he starred as Marshal Simon Fry.
Isabella finally took the habit of the Poor Clares before she died on 22 August 1358, and her body was returned to London for burial at the Franciscan church at Newgate, in a service overseen by Archbishop Simon Islip.
Simon de Montfort returned to England in 1263, at the invitation of the barons who were now convinced of the king's hostility to all reform and raised a rebellion with the avowed object of restoring the form of government which the Provisions had ordained.
" Simon and Garfunkel returned to England in the fall of 1968 and did a church concert appearance at Kraft Hall, which was broadcast on the BBC, and which also featured Paul's brother Ed sitting in on a performance of the instrumental " Anji ".
Kathy returned to England on her own with Simon returning to her some weeks later.
When Simon returned to the US with the growing success of " The Sound of Silence " Kathy ( who was quite shy ) wanted no part of the success and fame that awaited Simon and they split up.
Peter returned from Las Navas in autumn 1212 to find that Simon de Montfort had conquered Toulouse, exiling Count Raymond VI of Toulouse, who was Peter's brother-in-law and vassal.
John then returned to Barcelona and the pope promptly died, to be replaced by Simon de Brie, a Frenchman and a staunch ally of Charles.
The relics ( remains of his head ) of St Simon Stock are retained at the friary, having been preserved in Bordeaux for centuries before being returned to Aylesford in July 1951.
Boys In The Trees was a major success, and returned Simon to Platinum album status in the U. S. It later earned Simon yet another Grammy nomination.
Although by the time the video for their single " The Flame " was made in early 1986, Nick Rhodes had changed his hair colour to golden blond and Simon Le Bon returned to his regular highlighted hair style — this subsequent change of hairstyle anticipated the promotion of the forthcoming Duran Duran album, Notorious, released later that same year.
After taking a break to care for his terminally ill brother Simon returned to stand-up comedy, beginning to appear on stage as the characters he had previously talked about in his routine.
It is a member of the European People's Party ( EPP ) and it returned its two incumbent MEPs, Simon Busuttil and David Casa, in the European Parliament election held in June 2009.
Garland taught at Brounstown School in Mine Creek, Sevier County, but returned to Washington to study law with Hempstead County clerk Simon Sanders, He was admitted to the bar in 1853 and starting his law practice with his stepfather.
While Simon Amstell and Phill Jupitus returned for the show's 22nd series, Bailey was replaced by a series of guest captains, including comedians Bob Mortimer, Jack Dee, Frank Skinner, Stephen Fry, James Corden, Mark Watson, Russell Brand, producer Mark Ronson, and television presenters Dermot O ' Leary and Davina McCall.
Rosenberg has returned to Germany to work with Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic as its Intendantin.
He was dropped from the ODI squad because of poor form after The Ashes in 2005, but returned to the Australian squad in the 2006 – 07 Australian season after Simon Katich fell out of favour and Shane Watson was injured.
After Miranda broke with Simon Bolivar, Burnet returned to the United States.
Simon Jordan spoke to Warnock about taking over at Crystal Palace following the sacking of Peter Taylor and, after initially not being keen over the job, he returned to football management with Palace on 11 October 2007.

Simon and England
* 1265 – Second Barons ' War: Battle of Evesham – the army of Prince Edward ( the future king Edward I of England ) defeats the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, killing de Montfort and many of his allies.
He taught at Paris in the academic year 1232-33, but was appointed to a delegation by Henry III of England in 1235, along with Simon Langton and Fulk Basset, to negotiate for the renewal of the peace between England and France.
There were rumours that Montfort's son Simon was planning an invasion of England from Normandy, and this was the hope that the rebels hung on to.
* 1264 – The Battle of Lewes, between King Henry III of England and the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, begins.
* 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
* Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, was killed of wounds suffered at the Battle of Evesham in 1265, his corpse was beheaded, castrated and quartered by the knights of King Henry III of England.
While in England, he recorded his solo The Paul Simon Songbook in 1965.
While Simon was in England that summer of 1965, radio stations around Cocoa Beach and Gainesville, Florida, began to receive requests for a song from the album Wednesday Morning, 3 A. M. called " The Sound of Silence ".
Further hit singles came, including " Scarborough Fair / Canticle ", based on a traditional English ballad with an arrangement by Martin Carthy, and " Homeward Bound " ( later U. S. No. 5 ), about life on the road while Simon was touring in England in 1965.
Paul Simon was inspired to write " Homeward Bound " while waiting at Ditton railway station on the outskirts of Widnes in North West England.
The new versions were produced by Simon and Diamond Duggal, brothers from Birmingham, England.
Simon Rae also commented upon Grace's eminence in Victorian England by saying that his public recognition was equalled only by Queen Victoria herself and William Ewart Gladstone.
* Simon de Montfort marries Eleanor, sister of Henry III of England.
* 1264 – May 12 to May 14 – The Battle of Lewes is fought between Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and King Henry III of England in Sussex.
* The Oxford Parliament, led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, leads to the acceptance by King Henry III of England of the Provisions of Oxford.
* May 12 – May 14 – The Battle of Lewes of the Second Barons ' War is fought between Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and King Henry III of England in Sussex.
* May 28 – Future King Edward I of England escapes the captivity of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester.
Kenilworth Castle, whence besieged followers of Simon de Montfort issued the Dictum of Kenilworth in 1266, seeking peace with the king of England.
* October – In England, the Second Barons ' War winds down as supporters of the slain rebel leader Simon de Montfort make an offer of peace to the king in the Dictum of Kenilworth ; after slight modifications to the peace settlement, it is agreed to the following year.
In 1242 they were in Aylesford, Kent, England, and two years later in southern France, while by 1245 they were so numerous that they were able to hold their first general chapter at Aylesford, where Saint Simon Stock, then eighty years of age, was chosen general.
Critical events of Henry's reign are well described, including the dismissal of Peter des Roches ( after a politically loaded riddle by Roger Bacon is answered by Henry ), the ejection of Poitevins from England, the conflict with Hubert de Burgh, the marriage of Eleanor with Simon de Montfort, and finally the accession of Henry's son, Edward I after the battle of Evesham.
The Angevin property having been partly his own lands whose control was lost in the aftermath of the Battle of Bouvines ( 1214 ), King John of England would not allow a French subject to take ownership of such an estate in England, a policy maintained by the following Regency, so the lands were split between the boys, Simon's elder brother Amaury taking the French holding ( which he promptly lost, not having his father's military accumen ) and Simon taking the English, when King Henry eventually changed the policy on his accession to power on arriving at an age of majority in 1227: both he and Simon were virtually contemporary and both had seen their lands abused by their elders during their minority.

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