Art Garfunkel Explains Song Lyrics, How Terribly Strange To Be In His 70s — forbes.com

The beauty of Art Garfunkel’s and Paul Simon’s music is the uncanny ability to blend beautiful sound and serious content to sum up basic truths and the mood of a generation. The release of the new 11 CD set, Simon & Garfunkel – The Complete Albums Collection (Sony Sony Legacy) , is a wonderful affirmation of those skills. In this fourth part of my interview series with Garfunkel, he was gracious enough to play word association with lyrics from some of the songs in that collection. Garfunkel also gives us the scoop on what it’s like, gulp, to be in his 70s. (Hint: not so bad!)

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