I found this bit: The sleeve notes are relatively skimpy; absolutely no musician credits are provided, not even Garfunkel's occasional lead vocals, which is outrageous and inexcusable. While the ultra rare B-side "You Don't Know Where Your Interest Is" (1967) is present, they fail to note that it backed the equally rare, alternate "Fakin' It" (not present). No reference is made of the legendary outtake "Cuba Si, Nixon No" from their final album, Bridge Over Troubled Waters (1970). While much is made of Paul Simon's sojourns in England in the early days, once again no credit is given to Martin Carthy, whose "Scarborough Fair" arrangement from 1965 was lifted, lock stock and barrel, as the title track for the duo's third album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme (1966).
What is here succeeds in chronicling Simon's journey from earnest early 1960s Greenwich Village literary wannabe (and Brill Building apprentice) to one of pop's most assured and sophisticated tunesmiths, lyricists and arrangers. Clearly, by the end of Simon's second stay in London in 1965, he had learned to keep an eye on the Beatles for studio tricks, which he continued to do over the following years. The end of "Fakin' It" is almost a direct lift from "Strawberry Fields," and one can argue that in many ways the Bookends and Bridge Over Troubled Water albums were, respectively, replies to Sgt. Pepper and Abbey Road, with the sublime and at times surreal "America" echoing "A Day In The Life" more than just lyrically."
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Wolfgang
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