Simon & Garfunkel: The Concert in Central Park

Feb 21, 1982

1h 30m

★ 7.9

Overview

The Concert in Central Park is a live album by Simon & Garfunkel. On September 19, 1981 the folk-rock duo reunited for a free concert on the Great Lawn of New York's Central Park attended by more than 500,000 people. They released a live album from the concert the following March (Warner Brothers LP 2BSK 3654; CD 3654). It was arranged by Paul Simon and Dave Grusin, and produced by Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Phil Ramone and Roy Halee. The concert was also shot on videotape, televised by HBO in 1982, and subsequently released on various home video formats. The VHS and DVD contain two songs that were omitted from the live album: "The Late Great Johnny Ace" and "Late in the Evening (Reprise)". "Johnny Ace" was disrupted by a fan rushing the stage who came very close to attacking Paul. This incident was both frightening and coincidental, as the song is an elegy upon the murder of John Lennon just one year earlier.

Genres

Music

TV Movie

Production Companies

Sony Music Entertainment

HBO

Columbia Music Video

Broadway Video

Above Average Productions

Peregrine Productions

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Cast

Self

Paul Simon

Self

Art Garfunkel

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David Brown

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Pete Carr

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John Eckert

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Steve Gadd

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John Gatchell

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Anthony Jackson

Self - Mayor of New York

Ed Koch

Orchestration

David Matthews

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David Tofani

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Richard Tee

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