In a bombshell revelation that has shaken the music world to its core, Paul Simon has peeled back the polished veneer of his legendary partnership with Art Garfunkel, exposing decades of jealousy, heartbreak, bitterness, and emotional warfare buried behind their angelic harmonies. Their music may have defined a generationâbut behind the microphone lived a storm powerful enough to tear their partnership apart.
As millions celebrate Simon & Garfunkel as icons of American folk music, Simon has unveiled a version of their story that the world was never meant to hear.
âI donât know that I ever hated anyone more,â he admittedâan explosive confession that obliterates the long-held myth of two inseparable friends bound by creativity.
Their journey began innocently enough: two kids in the 1950s chasing fame under the name Tom and Jerry. But behind the teenage smiles lurked a rivalry that grew like a shadowâdeep, quiet, and corrosive. And as the spotlight grew brighter, so did the fractures.
Simon poured his soul into songwriting, carving out the emotional backbone of their music, yet it was Garfunkelâs soaring voice that audiences worshipped.
To the world, it looked effortless.
To Simon, it felt like a lifetime of being overshadowed.
âI always felt Art got too much credit for a sound that belonged to both of us,â he confessed, exposing wounds that fame never healed.

The pressure reached its breaking point when Garfunkel drifted into acting, leaving Simon feeling abandonedâbetrayed even. The release of âBridge Over Troubled Waterâ, intended as a testament to their bond, became the song that tore them apart.
âI thought we were a team,â Simon said. âAfter that⊠it felt like it was his song. And I disappeared.â
Their 1970 split wasnât just a breakupâit was the eruption of decades of unspoken resentment. And every reunion since then? Simon claims they collapsed into the same toxic cycle.
âEvery time we tried again, it became the same fight,â he admitted.
No melody could drown out the scars.
Garfunkel, for his part, fired back in his own interviewsâcalling Simon a âmonster of a little man,â a line that still echoes like a wound neither has ever recovered from.
Yet amid the bitterness, Simonâs voice cracks with a reluctant, painful truth:
âNo one could have sung those songs the way Art did.â

It is a confession heavy with both gratitude and griefâa reminder that the person who elevates your genius may also be the one who shatters your heart.
In the end, Paul Simon distills their entire turbulent legacy into one devastating line:
âSometimes the person who inspires your greatest music is also the one who hurts you the most.â
Their harmonies changed the world.
Their discord destroyed them.
And now, the truth behind Simon & Garfunkel is finally outâraw, heartbreaking, and more dramatic than any song they ever recorded.