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BY CHRIS HANDA
Book Critic
Who says you can't go home again?
Garfunkle returned to New York City
tember 19 and 500,000 people turned out
Those who did not attend the concert
missed out completely, though. Simon
released a recording of the event, titled
in Central Park.
It's a nostalgic trip back to the music
the early '70s. For good measure the
songs from the late 1950s: "Wake I
"Mavhpllinp "
Side one sets the pace for the album a
of the four sides. It opens with "Mrs.
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Fair" follow the opening cut. The flav
mellow and with the exception of "Me
songs on the first side are Simon and
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to hear their concert, from the 1950s. One is a Garfunk
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and Garfunkel have done by the duo is bad, but it w(
simply, The Concert sides had been devoted to th<
music. Nevertheless, it's still
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tound," "America," the mayor of New York and se
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is not. The expectations one would have
i Garfunkel reunion are fulfilled. They may
tes like they once did but it hardly matters,
rs almost everything that could be asked of
i album is summed up best by a verse irom
low the years are rolling by me, they are
im older than I once was/Younger than I'll
unusual/No it isn't strange/After changes
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