842 Simon and Garfunkel “The Sound of Silence” 1965

At the Flamingo Club in London, 1964, “There wasn’t anyone around to entertain the large audience. Then suddenly we noticed a young kid with a guitar sitting on the floor. Curly Goss, the promoter, asked him his name. It was Paul…Paul Simon and he was American. Anyway, this unknown kid from New York was dragged onto the stage and started with ‘Church is Burning’, followed it with ‘Leaves That Are Green’ and then ‘The Sound of Silence’. Just then he waved to a tall fair-haired kid at the back of the club, asking him to join him and together they sang ‘Benedictus’. Everyone was flabbergasted. They’d knocked the audience out. We got into conversation and soon learnt to our disappointment that both were returning to New York the next day” (Robert Matthew-Walker, Simon and Garfunkel, 1984). The Sounds of Silence album is listed on the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. 

Simon and Garfunkel “The Sound of Silence”