![]() ![]() ![]() Somebody happy to get out." Garfunkel has explained that the song was about his own childhood, how he "grew up in an area where a career in music was not seen as either desirable or exciting". Simon has stated that the song is not autobiographical instead he says that it is about "someone who hates the town he grew up in. It seemed like a good concept for him." After playing the song for Garfunkel, the two decided to collaborate again in the studio on this one track. I was gonna write a song for his new album, and I told him it would be a nasty song, because he was singing too many sweet songs. He has been quoted as saying: "It originally was a song I was writing for Artie. In early 1975, Simon had decided to prepare material for a new solo album and the music was a bit more personal, but one song was written in particular with Garfunkel specifically in mind. During this hiatus, Garfunkel worked as a teacher in Connecticut, a draftsman in New York and a math tutor in Los Angeles, before working on a solo album himself, coincidentally, at the same time as Simon. ![]() In June 1972 they were asked to sing at a political benefit concert for United States presidential candidate George McGovern at Madison Square Garden, New York City. In 1970 Simon and Garfunkel decided to part ways and record their own solo material. ![]()
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