Originally Posted by rostasi

Well, I was only quarter-joking with that remark, but Simon has always been an egotistical jackass.
How his wife (who was a local, naive, but sweet, celebrity from around here) can stand the guy I'll never know.
...and Garfunkel is such a wanktastic lard pile that even he said back when he was losing his voice:

"If I can't sing, I'm just an asshole."

As for the song: Yes, it was written by a guy experiencing an existential crisis at the age of 21
while sitting on the shitter, in the dark, while wasting water in the bathroom sink and
the hippie drivel machine turned on high:

"Aloha darkness, my old friend..." [the original lyric supposedly]

(PLOP - PLOP)

"...I've come to talk with you again..."

(PLOP - PLOP)

It took him several MONTHS to write this (??).

When it was finally released (on that album in the YouTube vid),
it flopped-plopped so badly that they immediately broke up and
went to live, literally, thousands of miles away from each other.
A year went by and the producer decided to remix the song without even
telling S&G and the record people released that version - that version that burned
holes into every person's head no matter what public place you walked into.

Just me personally: I enjoy the other versions posted (St. Trinian?) because
there's some actual life injected into the song in the same way that the Isley's,
for instance, were masters of resuscitating tunes using the sweet life of harmonies
and exquisite (re)phrasings.

Originally Posted by rostasi

Oh! I could imagine that choir!
Also, a short film: "St. Trinian's vs The Centurians."