Next up, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, a timeless anthem of liberation from a suffocating romantic entanglement. Fashioned by Paul Simon, one of music's master lyricists following the breakup of his Simon and Garfunkel along with the end of his first marriage. Paul Simon dismissed it as nonsense, a song that was just a joke… a game he was playing with his toddler to teach him how to rhyme simple words. It made his son giggle and somehow it turned into a song he recorded as an afterthought. It was even the last song released from his album…and it became a #1 SMASH… THE BIGGEST OF HIS SOLO CAREER. THE AMAZING STORY IS coming right up on Professor of Rock.

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During the rock era, there have been many collaborative duos. Besides, perhaps, the most famous collaboration of Lennon & McCartney that flourished throughout the 60s, there was another duo that also spoke for a generation of fans like few others during the socalled ‘cultural decade.’ It was the potent combo of Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel. Just like Lennon & McCartney, Simon & Garfunkel went their separate ways in 1970. Without Paul, Art, or Artie as those close to him called him, had only streaky success as a solo artist, whereas Paul immediately recaptured his superstar status on his own.

He would score hit after hit, including a single that held the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976 for 3 weeks. A snappy, comedic chronicle of how to sabotage a romantic relationship THAT came from a nonsense word game he was playing with his son titled “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.” You gotta here this story…so When Simon and Garfunkel broke up, the big question was… could they achieve the same level of success, separately, as they had together. Unlike Lennon & McCartney, who were both prodigious writers, only the Simon component composed music. Art was an outstanding vocalist, but he couldn’t write.

Art Garfunkel pursued a career in motion pictures, but in eleven years, he made only three films: the wartime comedy Catch22” in ‘69, "Carnal Knowledge" in ’71 with Ann Margret & Jack Nicholson, and the psychological drama "Bad Timing" in 1980. Of his eight charting singles during that period, two were "reunion" efforts with Paul Simon, and only one solo song, "All I Know" reached the national Top 10. For a while, Art even left show business altogether, seemingly reevaluating what to do with his life.

During his hiatus, Art worked as a teacher in Connecticut, a draftsman in New York, and a math tutor in LA, before working on a solo album himself. “We were really best friends up until 'Bridge over Troubled Water,'” Simon said in the documentary In Restless Dreams. “[Afterwards], it didn’t have the harmony of the friendship…