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(More customer reviews)Like Mr. Fornatale's style on radio, the book is written in a light, breezy, uncomplicated manner, that informs, broadens and enlightens. While needing some time to get to the album itself, Mr. Fornatale brings us back to the 60's, where and when other signature albums of that historic period were introducing themselves, such as Sgt Pepper's and Pet Sounds. In fact, any fan of music is surely going to move from the book to the turntable or cd player, and experience Bookends, and the other albums.
Clearly, Mr. Fornatale is not merely a historian of the rock era, nor just a radio personality, but rather, an avid fan of the music and that makes the essence of the book fairly simple; read it, learn from it, and appreciate the genius of S and G, the Beatles and the Beach Boys......Mr. Fornatale, bring us more.
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Released just 24 hours before the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination in April 1968 and inseparable from the tumultuous events of that time, Bookends is essential Simon and Garfunkel, featuring "A Hazy Shade of Winter" and the finished version of "Mrs. Robinson," the classic #1 hit that had its beginnings on the soundtrack of the milestone motion picture The Graduate. Writing from on-hand experience and exclusive interviews with the duo, Pete Fornatale reveals never-before-disclosed details of the love-hate relationship between the two musicians and offers a unique perspective on each of them. Bookends captured the duo at the peak of their personal, professional, and artistic partnership in the '60s. The dark clouds and troubled waters that broke them up were still a year and a half away.
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