The Concert in Central Park

The Concert in Central Park
A man with curly hair, Art Garfunkel (left), and a shorter, smiling man, Paul Simon (right).
Live album by Simon & Garfunkel
Released February 16, 1982 (1982-02-16)
Recorded September 19, 1981
Genre Folk rock
Length 75:51
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Paul Simon, Roy Halee, Phil Ramone
Simon & Garfunkel chronology
Collected Works
(1981)
The Concert in Central Park
(1982)
Old Friends
(1997)

The Concert in Central Park is the first live album by American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, released in February 1982 on Warner Bros. Records. It was recorded in September 1981 at a free benefit concert in Central Park, New York City, where the pair performed in front of more than 500,000 people. Proceeds went toward the redevelopment and maintenance of the run-down green space in the middle of Manhattan. This concert and album marked the start of a short-lived reunion for Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. The concept of a benefit concert in Central Park had been proposed by Parks Commissioner Gordon Davis and promoter Ron Delsener. Television channel HBO agreed to carry the concert, and worked with Delsener to decide on Simon and Garfunkel as the appropriate act for this event. Besides hit songs from their years as a duo, their set-list included material from their solo careers, and covers. The show consisted of 21 songs, though two were not used in the live album. Among the songs performed were the classics "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", and "The Boxer"; the event concluded with a reprise of Simon's song, "Late in the Evening". Ongoing personal tensions between the duo led them to decide against a permanent reunion, despite the success of the concert and a subsequent world tour.

The album and a film were released the year after the concert. Simon and Garfunkel's performance was praised by music critics and the album was commercially successful; it peaked at number six on the Billboard 200 album charts and was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The video recordings were initially broadcast on HBO, and were subsequently made available on Laserdisc, CED, VHS and DVD.

Idea and arrangement

A concert for the park

View of the stage from deep in the audience

New York City's Central Park, an oasis that functions as the city's "green lung", was in a state of deterioration in the mid-1970s.[1][2] Though Central Park had been designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962,[3] at the start of the 1980s, the city lacked the financial resources to spend an estimated US$3,000,000 to restore[1] or even to maintain the park. The nonprofit Central Park Conservancy was founded in 1980, and began a successful campaign to raise renovation funds.[4]

In the early 1980s, Parks Commissioner Gordon Davis, responsible for New York City's green areas, and Ron Delsener, one of the city's most influential concert promoters, developed the idea of helping Central Park financially with a free open-air concert, under the legal guidance of Bob Donnelly. The city would use profits from merchandising, television, and video rights to renovate the park. Earlier park performances by Elton John and James Taylor showed that this concept could be a success. Davis authorized the project, and Delsener entered discussions with cable TV channel HBO to decide who would perform.[5][6]

They decided on Simon & Garfunkel, a group that had formed in New York City in the 1960s, and had been one of the most successful folk rock groups through the late 60s/early 70s.[7][8] Simon & Garfunkel had broken up at the height of their popularity and shortly after the release of their fifth studio album, Bridge Over Troubled Water, which is deemed to be their artistic peak and which topped the 1970 Billboard charts for ten weeks. They had grown apart artistically and did not get along well with each other. In the following eleven years, both continued musical careers as solo artists, and worked together only sporadically on single projects.[9] Garfunkel made brief guest appearances at Simon's concerts, which were always successful.[5][6]

Delsener presented the plan to Paul Simon in the summer of 1981. Simon was enthusiastic about the idea, but questioned whether it could be financially successful, especially given the poor audience attendance of his last project, the autobiographical movie One-Trick Pony. Simon's confidence had declined and he had sought treatment for depression.[10][11] He questioned whether he and Art Garfunkel could work together,[7][8] but contacted Garfunkel, who was vacationing in Switzerland. Garfunkel was excited about the idea, and immediately returned to the US.[5][6]

From the promoter's viewpoint, Simon and Garfunkel were ideal choices. Not only were they likely to draw a large crowd to the concert, they also had roots in the city[5] - both had grown up and gone to school in Forest Hills, Queens.[11][12] Music critic Stephen Holden pointed out that, unlike artists who had left in pursuit of lifestyles offered by other locales, the two had always been a part of New York City. Both gained inspiration from the cityscape and the cultural variety of New York, and spoke of these influences in their songs.[13]

Planning and rehearsals

Planning and rehearsals for the concert took about three weeks in a Manhattan theater.[6] The rehearsals were characterized by past tensions that resurfaced between the performers under the intense time pressure. Paul Simon later said: "Well, the rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time."[11] An early concept was for each singer to give a solo performance, with Simon allotted the greater amount of time, and to conclude with the duo performing their joint works. This idea was rejected because, according to Garfunkel, "It didn't seem right to either of us that Paul should be the opening act for Simon & Garfunkel, and for him to follow Simon & Garfunkel didn't make show-business sense".[14] The two decided to perform most of the show together, with room for each to showcase some solo material.[6] Simon, who had resumed songwriting after a long hiatus, interrupted a series of studio recording sessions for the concert preparations. He used the live show as an opportunity to test one of his new songs in front of an audience. Garfunkel also planned to present a new song, "A Heart in New York", from his soon-to-be released album Scissors Cut.[6]

Michael Doret poster for the concert

The two differed on the presentation of the concert. Garfunkel wanted to recreate the duo's mid-1960s live performances, using only their voices backed by Simon's acoustic guitar. Simon felt that this was impossible, as an injury had rendered him incapable of playing guitar for the full length of a concert, and his newer material was typically arranged for larger ensembles that often included horns and amplified instruments such as electric piano and electric guitar. Garfunkel initially agreed to hire a second guitarist, but later rejected the idea. A group of eleven musicians was assembled for the concert,[11][15] most of whom were experienced studio musicians and had played on albums involving Simon or Garfunkel. These included David Brown (guitar), Pete Carr (guitar), Anthony Jackson (bass guitar), Rob Mounsey (synthesizer), John Eckert (trumpet), John Gatchell (trumpet), Dave Tofani (saxophone), Gerry Niewood (saxophone), Steve Gadd (drums, percussion), and Richard Tee (keyboard, piano).[16]

The musical arrangements for the concert were written by Paul Simon and David Matthews. Some songs differed significantly from their original versions; for example, "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" featured more prominent Latin elements and included a salsa break, while the folk rock "Kodachrome" was set as a harder rock song and played together with the Chuck Berry classic "Maybellene" as a medley. The military rhythm of "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" was replaced with a Latin arrangement that included brass.[13]

Garfunkel had difficulties in the rehearsals. Both men easily recalled their songs from the 1960s, but Garfunkel had to learn the harmonies and arrangements for Simon's solo songs, as modified for the reunion concert.[17] He was also uncomfortable that Simon had rewritten some of the lyrics for their old songs. Despite the need to adapt to Simon and his style, Garfunkel enjoyed some of the songs, and was glad to perform a duet version of Simon's "American Tune".[15]

The fact that the Central Park show would feature the two men performing together on stage was kept secret until an announcement was published in New York newspapers only a week before the concert.[6] These news reports[18] and the Michael Doret-designed posters[19] named the musicians individually and did not bill them as "Simon & Garfunkel", but the event was nevertheless interpreted as a reunion. The two stated in interviews that further collaboration was not planned.[16][20]

The concert

The audience waits on the "Great Lawn" for the concert's beginning

The concert took place on Saturday, September 19, 1981, on the Great Lawn, the central open space of Central Park. The first spectators, many carrying chairs or picnic blankets, arrived at daybreak to secure a good spot.[21] The Parks Department originally expected about 300,000 attendees.[18] Although rain fell throughout the day and continued until the start of the concert,[12] an estimated 500,000 audience members[16] made this the seventh-largest concert attendance in the United States in history.[22]

The stage backdrop depicted an urban rooftop with water tank and air outlet, symbolic of New York's skyline. At twilight, the backing band went onstage, followed by New York's mayor, Ed Koch, who announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, Simon and Garfunkel!"[21] The duo entered through a side stage door, took center stage amid audience applause, looked at each other and shook hands,[16] and began the concert with their 1968 hit "Mrs. Robinson".

After the second song, "Homeward Bound", Simon delivered a short speech which began, "Well, it's great to do a neighborhood concert." He then thanked the police, the fire department, the park administration and finally Ed Koch. The audience booed at the mention of Koch but applauded as Simon continued.

Simon & Garfunkel played twenty-one songs in total: ten by the duo, eight by Simon, one by Garfunkel, a cover of The Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie", and the medley version of "Maybellene". Each performer sang three songs alone, including one new song apiece. Garfunkel sang the Simon & Garfunkel classic "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and "April Come She Will", and "A Heart in New York", a song written by Gallagher and Lyle that appeared on his album Scissors Cut, which had been released the previous month. Simon's solo performances were the title song of his 1975 album Still Crazy After All These Years, the number-one single "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover", and the unreleased "The Late Great Johnny Ace", which would appear on his 1983 album Hearts and Bones.

"The Late Great Johnny Ace" was interrupted when an audience member ran to the stage and shouted at Simon: "I need to talk to you!" The man was carried away by security, and Simon finished the song. The incident provoked associations to the song's lyrics, in which Simon speaks as a first-person narrator concerning the deaths of Johnny Ace, John F. Kennedy and John Lennon. Lennon's murder by an obsessed fan had taken place less than a year previously, not far from the concert site.[23][24] Despite this association, Simon said that he was not afraid of any on-stage incidents. In May 1982 as a guest on Late Night with David Letterman, he explained that while it is not unusual for fans, for example, to jump onto the stage with flowers, this action was new to him, but also felt that the man simply appeared intoxicated. His greater concern was that the song's premiere was ruined.[25]

Lyrics referring to the New York area produced audience applause, such as Garfunkel's ode to his home city, "A Heart in New York", which describes from a New Yorker's point of view the first glimpse of the city when returning there by air:[26]

New York, lookin' down on Central Park, where they say you should not wander after dark[27]

Applause broke out during "The Sound of Silence", when the narrative voice refers to a large crowd of people in the dark:[28]

And in the naked light I saw ten thousand people maybe more[29]

After the 17th song, "The Boxer", which contained an additional stanza not included in the album version, Simon & Garfunkel thanked the audience and left the stage, but returned to deliver an encore of three songs – "Old Friends / Bookends Theme", "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" and "The Sound of Silence". Simon then said that their planned use of pyrotechnics had been disallowed, and told the crowd, "Let's have our own fireworks!" Many spectators sparked lighters. The duo then introduced the members of the backing band and gave a final encore, a reprise of "Late in the Evening".[25]

Set list

  1. "Mrs. Robinson" (Simon)
  2. "Homeward Bound" (Simon)
  3. "America" (Simon)
  4. "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" (Simon)
  5. "Scarborough Fair/Canticle" (Simon & Garfunkel (Traditional, arr. by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel))
  6. "April Come She Will" (Simon)
  7. "Wake Up Little Susie" (The Everly Brothers (Felice and Boudleaux Bryant))
  8. "Still Crazy After All These Years" (Simon)
  9. "American Tune" (Simon)
  10. "Late in the Evening" (Simon)

  1. "Slip Slidin' Away" (Simon)
  2. "A Heart in New York" (Benny Gallagher, Graham Lyle)
  3. "The Late Great Johnny Ace" (Simon)
  4. "Kodachrome/Maybellene" (Simon/Chuck Berry (Chuck Berry, Russ Fratto, Alan Freed))
  5. "Bridge over Troubled Water" (Simon)
  6. "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" (Simon)
  7. "The Boxer" (Simon)
  8. "Old Friends / Bookends Theme" (Simon)
  9. "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" (Simon)
  10. "The Sound of Silence" (Simon)
  11. "Late in the Evening" (Reprise) (Simon)

Release

A recording of the concert was released five months later, on February 16, 1982. The audio tracks were put through album postproduction, but it was noted by Rolling Stone magazine that they were not completely polished, and preserved the roar and the fuzziness of live rock music heard through a loudspeaker.[13] Two songs were removed from the album version: the interrupted "Late Great Johnny Ace", and the encore reprise of "Late in the Evening". The album was an international success.[30] It peaked at number six on the Billboard 200 chart, and was certified 2×Multi-Platinum with sales of over 2 million copies in USA. The album sold more than 1,270,000 copies in France, where it was certified Diamond. It was also successful in seven other countries, including France and New Zealand. Originally the album was released as a double LP and as a single Compact Cassette. In 1988 it was issued as a single CD. Various reissues in different formats have been released, including, alongside the DVD, a 2-CD-release also containing the two missing songs from the original album.[31][32] The Concert was recorded by Roy Halee on the Record Plant NY Black Truck with David Hewitt Director, assisted by Phil Gitomer, Steve Barash and John Mathias.

Track listing

The song "The Late Great Johnny Ace" and the reprise of "Late in the Evening" were not included in the original release of the live album but are included on the DVD.

Video release

Film of the concert was produced for television broadcast and the home video market. It was produced by James Signorelli, and directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, a specialist in music documentaries who had worked on The Beatles' film Let It Be, and executive produced by Lorne Michaels, who had recently departed the NBC-TV comedy/variety series Saturday Night Live. Simon himself financed the US$750,000 cost of the staging and the video recording.[21] It is unknown how much HBO paid for the television and video rights of the recording; US$1 million according to some sources,[16][24] over US$3 million according to others.[33] The film includes the two songs that had not appeared on the album, and with an 87-minute duration, is 12 minutes longer than the album.[34]

HBO televised the film, Simon and Garfunkel: The Concert in Central Park, on February 21, 1982, five days after the album was released. The film was later released for sale in VHS, CED Videodisc, Laserdisc,[35] and DVD formats.[36] It sold more than 50,000 copies in the US, where it earned Gold certification for a music longform video.[37]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[38]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[39]
Rolling Stone[40]
The Village VoiceC+[41]

The concert and recordings were positively received by music critics. Stephen Holden praised the performance in The New York Times the day after the concert;[42] he subsequently praised the live album in Rolling Stone magazine.[13] He wrote that Simon and Garfunkel were successful in reviving their sound, that the backing band was "one of the finest groups of musicians ever to play together at a New York rock concert",[42] and the rearrangements of Simon's solo material were improvements over the originals.[13] Despite the risks in performing so many acoustic ballads in an open-air concert on a cool night, the songs "were beautifully articulated, in near-perfect harmony."[42]

An October 1981 review in Rolling Stone called the concert "one of the finest performances of [1981]", one that "vividly recaptured another time, an era when well-crafted, melodic pop bore meanings that stretched beyond the musical sphere and into the realms of culture and politics."[43] This reviewer noted that Garfunkel's voice was noticeably restrained in high passages, though still harmonious, and that the evening's only weak spot was the "Kodachrome"/"Maybellene" medley, because neither singer could raise the right level of emotion for the rock songs.[43] A Billboard reviewer wrote in March 1982, "This 19 song, two record set gloriously recaptures the past with sterling renditions of most of the duo's classics as well as a few of Simon's solo compositions filled out by Garfunkel's harmony."[44] However, Robert Christgau of The Village Voice dismissed the album as "a corporate boondoggle—a classy way for Warner Bros. artist Simon to rerecord, rerelease, and resell the catalogue CBS is sitting on." He felt Simon had been better off without Garfunkel since 1971 and quipped, "live doubles are live doubles, nostalgia is nostalgia, wimps are wimps, and who needs any of 'em?"[41]

Aftermath

The duo were disappointed with their performance, particularly Garfunkel, who felt that he sang poorly. Simon said that he did not immediately realize the magnitude of the event: "I didn't get what had happened – how big it was – until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news ... and later that night on the front pages of all the newspapers. Then I got it."[11]

In May 1982, Simon & Garfunkel went on a world tour with stops in Japan, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Ireland, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, the US and Canada.[45] The European leg of their tour began on May 28, 1982, at the Stadion am Bieberer Berg in Offenbach am Main. This was their first performance in Germany, and had an attendance of around 40,000 spectators.[46]

After the tour concluded, the duo went into the studio to work on what was to be a reunion album. However, after increasingly acrimonious disagreements, Garfunkel dropped out of the project, which became Simon's 1983 solo album Hearts and Bones.[47]

Several years would pass before Simon & Garfunkel worked together again. Their next joint public appearance was in 1990, when they performed for their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. When Simon gave another free concert in Central Park on 15 August 1991,[48] he rejected Garfunkel's offer to participate.[12] However, they agreed to perform together in 1993 for 21 sold out concerts in New York, with half of the show being Paul Simon solo with a band and the other half Simon and Garfunkel. Later the same year, they did some charity concerts, including the Bridge School Benefit concerts and a benefit for United Way of Canada Children's Charities at SkyDome in Toronto. Their next performance as a duo was in December 2003, at New York's Madison Square Garden. This concert was recorded, and released in December 2004 as the album Old Friends: Live on Stage.[49]

Simon & Garfunkel's Concert in Central Park raised around $51,000 for Central Park.[33] Benefit concerts by other musicians followed, and helped to raise awareness of the park's state. With donations from the general public and with the help of wealthy benefactors,[50] the park was restored during the 1980s and gained recognition as a major tourist attraction.[4] As of 2011, donations still make up the majority of its budget.[51] Today concerts and other benefits are regularly held on the Great Lawn.[52]

Chart performance and certification

Album

Weekly charts

Chart (1982–83) Position
Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart[53] 5
Austrian Albums Chart[54] 5
Canadian RPM Albums Chart[55] 9
Dutch Mega Albums Chart[56] 1
French SNEP Albums Chart[57] 1
Italian Albums Chart[58] 5
Japanese Oricon LP Chart[59] 2
New Zealand Albums Chart[60] 1
Norwegian VG-lista Albums Chart[61] 1
Spanish Albums Chart[62] 7
Swedish Albums Chart[63] 5
UK Albums Chart[64] 6
United States Billboard Pop Albums[65] 6
West German Media Control Albums Chart[66] 3
Chart (1988) Position
Dutch Mega Albums Chart[56] 9
Chart (1995) Position
French SNEP Albums Chart[67] 25
Chart (1999) Position
Norwegian VG-lista Albums Chart[61] 10

Year-end charts

Chart (1982) Position
Australian Albums Chart[53] 10
Austrian Albums Chart[68] 5
Canadian Albums Chart[69] 67
Japanese Oricon Chart[70] 15
Italian Albums Chart[58] 17
US Billboard 200[71] 75

Certifications and sales

Album release
Region Certification Certified units/Sales
Austria (IFPI Austria)[72] Platinum 50,000*
Canada (Music Canada)[73] Gold 50,000^
France (SNEP)[74] Diamond 1,270,000[75]
Germany (BVMI)[76] Gold 250,000^
Italy (FIMI)[77] Gold 50,000*
Japan (Oricon Charts) 394,000[59][70]
Netherlands (NVPI)[78] Gold 50,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[79] 2× Platinum 100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI)[80] Gold 100,000[81]
United States (RIAA)[82] 2× Platinum 2,000,000^

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone

Video releases
Region Provider Certification
(sales thresholds)
Date
Australia ARIA 10× Platinum[83] 2013
Germany BVMI Platinum[84] 2004
New Zealand RMNZ 4× Platinum [85] October 11, 2009
United Kingdom BPI Platinum[86] July 22, 2013
United States RIAA Gold[87] February 17, 1988

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