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“Bridge over Troubled Water” is the title song of Simon and Garfunkel’s final album together, Bridge over Troubled Water, released January 1970. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on February 28, 1970, and stayed at the top of the chart for six weeks. It was replaced at the number-one spot by The Beatles’ “Let It Be”. “Bridge over Troubled Water” also topped the adult contemporary chart in the U.S. for six weeks.

This song’s recording process exposed many of the underlying tensions that eventually led to the breakup of the group after the album’s completion. Most notably, Paul Simon has repeatedly expressed regret that he allowed Art Garfunkel to sing this song as a solo, as it focused attention on Garfunkel and relegated Simon to a backing position. He felt an unwanted jealousy when Garfunkel received thunderous applause after performing the song, feeling that the acclamation should have been for him (“That’s my song! I wrote it!”). Art Garfunkel initially did not want to sing lead vocal, feeling it was not right for him. “He felt I should have done it,” Paul Simon revealed to Rolling Stone in 1972. Garfunkel said that the moment when he performed it in Madison Square Garden in 1972 was “almost biblical”. In recent performances on the “Old Friends” tour, Simon and Garfunkel have taken turns singing alternate verses of the vocal.

As the song ends, drums and piano build in a crescendo to an extraordinary climax. The last note, on a violin, is a long, drawn out E-flat that lasts ten seconds.
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  • Anni--x3

    ♥

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  • chingbling

    This has to be my most favourite recording ever. It has so many mixed emotions for me.

    Sunday evening

  • dixieland92

    Music for soul...sad and simply beautiful

    Sunday evening

  • Bandit17C

    One of the greatest songs of all time.

    Saturday evening

  • Marjo47

    classic

    last week

  • joe_g101

    This songs beauty is timeless

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  • roadsidesbloom

    This song is just so powerful, so eternal, I honestly find it hard to believe that the world ever existed without it. Thank god that Paul Simon composed this masterpiece for us.

    11 days ago

  • Stigweird85

    A beautiful song, beautifully performed

    13 days ago

  • NitaD1

    This doesn't scrobble enough!!! What a gem of a song!

    25 days ago

  • veronikesilva

    Tão linda!!! :)))))))))))))))))

    last month

  • njokmo413

    my favorite S&G song... sooo good

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  • Jenny_Psy

    <3

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  • MarcusAurelio

    This might be the most beautiful ballad I've ever heard...divine.

    March 2012

  • supersteveme

    got to be in the top 10 songs ever made

    March 2012

  • skypoems

    Perfect. Forever perfect.

    March 2012

  • jbbassomatic

    One of the most beautiful songs ever recorded. I never tire of this [4]

    March 2012

  • CaliHoosier

    Incomparable!!!!!!!

    March 2012

  • linzi76

    gorgeous

    March 2012

  • intheluminol

    One of the most beautiful songs ever recorded. I never tire of this [3]

    March 2012

  • metallicorphan

    40+ years later and it's still a very powerful song

    March 2012
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