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 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 !

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 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 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.

Great concert

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

The video of this 1981 concert is great. Unfortunately, the audio is NOT synced up with the video, making it VERY DISTRACTING to watch. The audio lags, bummer.So, if you want to see Art and Paul in this concert, a few months before they turned 40, 11 years after they split, still singing lovely 2 part harmony, and don’t mind audio lag, then go for it.I’m keeping this DVD for the visuals, excitement of the crowd, Art’s body moves, and Art’s moving performance of Bridge Over Troubled Water., song solo as Paul had originally wanted him to.