{"id":30397,"date":"2024-09-19T18:04:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T18:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-19-1981-paul-simon-and-art-garfunkel-reunite-for-a-concert-in-new-yorks-central-park\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T18:04:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T18:04:15","slug":"on-this-day-sept-19-1981-paul-simon-and-art-garfunkel-reunite-for-a-concert-in-new-yorks-central-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-19-1981-paul-simon-and-art-garfunkel-reunite-for-a-concert-in-new-yorks-central-park\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Sept. 19, 1981: Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunite for a concert in New York\u2019s Central Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-19\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Sept. 19, 1981\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Former musical partners <strong>Paul Simon<\/strong> and <strong>Art Garfunkel<\/strong> reunited for a concert on the Great Lawn in New York\u2019s Central Park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The concert took place more than 10 years after the pair\u2019s final studio album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Bridge Over Troubled Water<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The duo performed\u00a0many of their classics\u00a0songs, including\u00a0&#8220;The Sound of Silence,\u201d &#8220;Mrs. Robinson,\u201d &#8220;The Boxer,\u201d \u201cBride Over Troubled Water,\u201d \u201cHomeward Bound\u201d and &#8220;The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin&#8217; Groovy),\u201d as well as Simon solo tunes like &#8220;Late in the Evening,\u201d \u201cSlip Slidin\u2019 Away,\u201d and \u201cFifty Ways to Leave Your Lover.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">More than 500,000 people attended the free concert, which benefited the redevelopment and maintenance of the park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">An album of the concert was released in February of 1982, and peaked at #6 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> album chart. It was later certified double platinum by the RIAA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Sept. 19, 1981\u2026 Former musical partners Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel reunited for a concert on the Great Lawn in New York\u2019s Central Park. The concert took place more than 10 years after the pair\u2019s final studio album, Bridge Over Troubled Water. The duo performed\u00a0many of their<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-19-1981-paul-simon-and-art-garfunkel-reunite-for-a-concert-in-new-yorks-central-park\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}