When Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel released The Sound of Silence in 1964, the audience's response was not the wave we might expect today — according to Far Out Magazine, it was "just a drop in the ocean," an ironic silence surrounding a song about silence. They were not yet the mononymous giants they would become within a few years, but two new kids on the block. Far Out Magazine ↗
The magazine places the song in the category of tracks that started out as flops and only with the passage of time became a seismic legacy. According to the magazine, The Sound of Silence belongs to this category more than any other: today it is one of the most classic entries in the duo's catalogue, and in the meantime thirty million copies of it have been sold. Far Out Magazine ↗
The breakthrough came only with the reworked version, which producer Tom Wilson supplemented with electric guitar, bass, and drums without the duo's knowledge; in 1966 it reached number one on the American charts.
Simon & Garfunkel are among the most sought-after acoustic duos on SuperMusic.cz — they have almost one hundred and seventy songs there, and Sound of Silence, with chords and lyrics, has surpassed fifty thousand views.
The Sound of Silence was a flop in 1964. Today it has thirty million copies sold
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