Art Garfunkel writes about his life before, during, and after Simon & Garfunkel .
about their folk-rock music in the roiling age that embraced and was defined by their pathbreaking sound.
He writes about growing up in the 1940s and '50s (son of a traveling salesman), a middle class Jewish boy, living in a red brick semi-attached house in Kew Gardens, Queens, a kid who was different--from the age of five feeling his vocal cords vibrating with the love of sound .
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 Manhattan to make a demo of their song, Hey Schoolgirl (for $7!) and the actual record (with Paul's father on bass) going to #40 on the national charts, selling 150,000 copies .
He writes about their becoming Simon & Garfunkel, taking the world by storm, ruling the pop charts from the time he was sixteen, about not being a natural performer, but more a thinker .
touring; sex-for-thrills on the road, reading or walking to calm down (walking across two continents--the USA and Europe).
He writes of being an actor working with directors Nicolas Roeg (Bad Timing) and Mike Nichols (the greatest of them all) .
getting his masters in mathematics at Columbia; choosing music over a PhD; his slow unfolding split with Paul and its aftermath; learning to perform on his own, giving a thousand concerts worldwide, his voice going south (a stiffening of one vocal cord) and working to get it back .
about being a husband, a father and much more.
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