- folk rock, folk, soft rock, rock
- 11 tracks
- CBS
Bridge over Troubled Water is the fifth and final studio album by the American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel. The album was released on January 26, 1970 through Columbia Records. Following the duo's soundtrack for The Graduate, Art Garfunkel took an acting role in the film Catch-22, while Paul Simon worked on the songs, writing all tracks except Felice and Boudleaux Bryant's "Bye Bye Love".
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Spare, character-led, earnest and grave.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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- AllMusic5/5 ★
- American Songwriter5/5 ★
- Blender4/5 ★
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music4/5 ★
- Entertainment WeeklyA−
- Pitchfork9.4/10
- Q4/5 ★
- Record Collector4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone5/5 ★
- Uncut3/5 ★
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Tracks
- A1Bridge Over Troubled Water
- A2El cóndor pasa
- A3Cecilia
- A4Keep the Customer Satisfied
- A5So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
- B1The Only Living Boy in New York
- B2Save the Life of My Child
- B3America
- B4Why Don’t You Write Me
- B5Bye Bye Love
- B6Song for the Asking
About the album
- Artist
- Simon and Garfunkel
- Label
- CBS
- Released
- 1970
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- BR
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