Art Garfunkel
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Art Garfunkel writes about his life before, during, and after Simon and Garfunkel. The folk-rock music in the roiling age that embraced and was defined by their path-breaking sound. He writes about growing up in the 1940s and '50s. Meeting Paul Simon in school, the funny guy who made Art laugh; their going on to junior high school together, of being twelve at the birth of rock n' roll, both of them 'captured' by it; going to a recording studio in...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It’s a bitterly cold February in 1961, and Sandy Greenberg lies in a hospital bed in Detroit, newly blind. A junior at Columbia University from a Jewish family that struggled to stay above the poverty line, Sandy had just started to see the world open up to him. Now, instead of his plans for a bright future—Harvard Law and politics—Sandy faces a new reality, one defined by a cane or companion dog, menial work, and a cautious path through life....
Author
Language
English
Description
It's a bitterly cold February in 1961, and Sandy Greenberg lies in a hospital bed in Detroit, newly blind. A junior at Columbia University from a Jewish family that struggled to stay above the poverty line, Sandy had just started to see the world open up to him. Now, instead of his plans for a bright future-Harvard Law and politics-Sandy faces a new reality, one defined by a cane or companion dog, menial work, and a cautious path through life. But...
20) Beatles Stories
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Language
English
Description
In 2004, songwriter Seth Swirsky set out to talk to people who had crossed paths with the band he grew up idolizing, the Beatles. Features personal reflections from Sir Ben Kingsley, Beach Boy Brian Wilson, Henry Winkler, Smokey Robinson, Graham Nash, Davy Jones, Art Garfunkel, and many more. Stories range from the unforgettable chance encounter to intimate knowledge of the group members.