Vinyl Record

Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water on LP vinyl. A 1970 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP · 1970

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1970 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Bridge Over Troubled Water is Simon & Garfunkel in 1970, reaching their largest audience at the exact moment the partnership was nearing its end. The album is often remembered through the title song's hymn-like scale, but its power comes from how unstable the whole record is beneath the surface. Paul Simon's writing stretches from gospel-influenced reassurance to Peruvian folk adaptation, Los Angeles loneliness, New York character sketches and a final miniature farewell. Art Garfunkel's voice gives Bridge Over Troubled Water its soaring centre, while The Boxer, El Condor Pasa, Cecilia, The Only Living Boy In New York, So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright and Song For The Asking show a duo widening the studio palette beyond the strict folk-rock frame of their early work. The 1970 timing is crucial: it arrived as 1960s idealism was fading, as the album market was becoming more serious, and as Simon and Garfunkel's personal distance was becoming impossible to ignore. The result is both a blockbuster and a breakup album, polished enough for mass comfort and sad enough to feel like an ending.

Bridge Over Troubled Water matters because it became Simon & Garfunkel's final studio album and their biggest commercial and awards-era triumph. It preserved the duo at peak reach while exposing the separation, ambition and studio sophistication that made continuation unlikely.

For collectors, this is the indispensable final Simon & Garfunkel LP: the title anthem, The Boxer, Cecilia and The Only Living Boy In New York all in their original album setting. It belongs as both a 1970 singer-songwriter landmark and the closing chapter of the duo's studio run.

Expansive folk-pop with gospel piano grandeur, close harmony, acoustic detail, Latin and world-folk colour, orchestral lift, soft-rock polish and a melancholy farewell atmosphere beneath the brightness.

Recommended for: Collectors building a core 1970 singer-songwriter and folk-rock shelf; Listeners who want Simon & Garfunkel at their most ambitious and final; Fans of Bridge Over Troubled Water, The Boxer and The Only Living Boy In New York.

When was Bridge Over Troubled Water released? Bridge Over Troubled Water was released in 1970 as Simon & Garfunkel's fifth and final studio album. Which songs define the album? The title track, The Boxer, Cecilia, El Condor Pasa and The Only Living Boy In New York are central to its identity. Why is Bridge Over Troubled Water seen as an ending? It arrived as the duo's partnership was breaking apart, making its polished success inseparable from its farewell quality.