Simon and Garfunkel: The Concert in Central Park [DVD]

My whole family watched this within days of my husband receiving it as a gift for his birthday. It is a high quality recording of this epic concert in Central Park, years ago. I highly recommend it! And the vocals and instrumentation of the concert are, of course, spot-on. Phenomenal musicians, singers, and songwriters!

I am a boomer who has an appreciation for music of all kinds. I have watched more than my share of concerts but aside from the excitement of the live Beatles in 1965, this is at the top of perfect performances. I never tired of viewing it. The harmony, honesty, simplicity, perfectionism, and sense of collective Americana of a time and place has never been rematched. My heart opens, breaks, and rejoices but never is distracted. You can't help but be transformed.

I was in elementary school when this concert occurred. They were one of the top groups of their generation. I still love to listen to their music !

This video provided a wonderful journey down memory lane. I owned the vinyl record of Simon and Garfunkel the concert in Central Park when I was in high school. Was so pleased to be able to get this at a reasonable price because I bought it used. I am more than satisfied with my purchase. In my opinion Simon and Garfunkel is the greatest duet of all time. A music fan cannot go wrong listening to songs written by a master wordsmith in Paul Simon while Art Garfunkel offers the listener a classic beautiful tenor voice. The harmony between them is so perfect I like to call them singing together the Simon/Garfunkel voice because it sounds like a voice of its own. This is definitely a five star purchase.

I listened to Simon & Garfunkel's music growing up in the seventies, but saw this concert on PBS, and bought both their Greatest Hits and Concert CDs afterwards. The DVD is enjoyable to watch, although I notice they took out the song where some nut charges Paul Simon during one of his solo songs, which wasn't a loss anyway (I speak of that song in the DVD). The song list is excellent, the performance as a whole is enjoyable to watch, and both of their voices are spectacular, to say the least. The only really jarring note is their lack of maturity as demonstrated by their on stage behavior. I am not one of those who seem to feel that the artistic temperament or the pop psychology self justification argument justifies such childish and unprofessional behavior, and it was a relief to see that they behaved in a much more mature fashion on their Old Friends tour and DVD. Which DVD/show is better is a subjective judgement, but this is an excellent show and this DVD is worth the price.

We saw this on tv and wanted to watch it again.This dvd is amazing, everyone who is a fan ofSimon & Garfunkel should have it.

I have been looking for this and found it. Wonderful concert!

Great concert