Art Garfunkel Slams Former Partner Paul Simon: 'I Created a Monster'

In an all-new interview with UK's The Telegraph, Art Garfunkel slams his former singing partner Paul Simon and revealed details of the dissolution of their successful musical partnership in the early 1970's, just after the release of one of their biggest albums, 'Bridge over Troubled Water.'

"It was very strange," shares Garfunkel of the decision to disband the duo. "Nothing I would have done. I want to open up about this. I don't want to say any anti-Paul Simon things, but it seems very perverse to not enjoy the GLORY and walk away from it instead. Crazy."

Garfunkel offers a series of questions he would like to have answered by Simon, including "How can you walk away from this lucky place on top of the world, Paul? What's going on with you, you idiot? How could you let that go, jerk?' "

Garfunkel also speaks about his LIFE AFTER his musical career in which he went on to become a math teacher at a prep school in Connecticut. "I would talk them through a math problem and ask if anyone had any questions and they would say: 'What were the Beatles like?' ", he joked.

The singer even shares a theory that his former short-in-stature partner, "might have a Napoleon complex." He adds that the reason he offered to be Simon's friend back in high school was because he felt sorry for him because of his height. "And that compensation gesture has created a monster," he offers.

Read the interview in full here

"Bridge over Troubled Water" written by Paul Simon is from the album of the same name released January 26, 1970 on Columbia Records, the final studio album by Simon & Garfunkel. The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and adult contemporary charts and won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year in 1971. Listen to the classic below:

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