Now Paul Simon, the songwriting maestro behind the 1960s duo Simon & Garfunkel, is opening up about his breakup with Art Garfunkel, his boyhood friend from Queens, New York, and vocalist with whom he vaulted to the top of the charts. People, you know, they want to go one direction, [but] somebody wants to go in another direction. In our case, what we had was a real unbalance in that I wrote all the songs and played guitar and then we sang, so we weren't balanced," he said. Philadelphia (CNN) It is one of the enduring mysteries in pop history: why did one of the most popular and impactful musical partnerships of modern times break up after just five years? "You get on each other's nerves.

Source: CNN July 28, 2016 09:33 UTC