ART GARFUNKEL is reflecting on the song Old Friends. You know, the one about two men who “sat on their park bench like bookends”. “It has been a huge fan favourite all over the world,” he says.

Paul Simon once spoke about the fear he felt when Simon and Garfunkel were at the height of their fame, and the creative disagreements in the background.

“I cried when he told me how much I had hurt him,” Garfunkel recalled, without specifying which interview Simon was referring to. “Looking back, I guess I wanted to shake up the nice guy image of Simon & Garfunkel. Y’know what? I was a fool!”