Paul Simon told that he wrote the song when he was 21. He explained that he wrote the song at his first job in music. His job was to take the songs that the publishing company owned, go to record companies and check if any of their artists wanted to record these songs.
Correspondingly, why did Simon and Garfunkel write the sound of silence?
He explained that he wrote the song at his first job in music. His job was to take the songs that the publishing company owned, go to record companies and check if any of their artists wanted to record these songs.
Secondly, when did Simon & Garfunkel record sound of silence? Today their acclaim is universal but in 1964 Simon & Garfunkel's debut LP Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. … only sold about 2,000 copies. A mix of Paul Simon originals, folk covers and traditional tunes, its highlight was a Simon composition recorded on March 10, 1964, “The Sounds of Silence.”
Considering this, what is the meaning behind the sound of silence?
Garfunkel once said the song is about "the inability of people to communicate with each other, not particularly intentionally but especially emotionally, so what you see around you are people unable to love each other."
Who made sound of silence?
Paul Simon
