Bookends is the fourth studio album by the American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel. Produced by Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel and Roy Halee, the album was released on April 3, 1968, in the United States
Bookends was recorded at Columbia's Studio B at the CBS Studio Building in Manhattan.
Paul Simon, the album's primary songwriter, seen here in 1966.
The original release of Bookends included this poster, which Columbia chairman Clive Davis used to justify increasing the price of the LP.
The Graduate is a 1968 album of songs and music from the soundtrack of Mike Nichols' film The Graduate. It includes five songs from the folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, including "Mrs. Robinson", a wo
Bookends (album)
…States by Columbia Records. The duo had risen to fame two years prior with the albums Sounds of Silence and Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme and the soundtrack album for the 1967 film The Graduate. Bookends is a concept album that explores a life journey from childhood to old age. Side one of the album marks successive…