{"product_id":"2940169469653","title":"What Is It All but Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the golden-haired, curly-headed half of Simon amp; Garfunkel--a memoir (of sorts): artful, moving, lyrical; the making of a musician; the evolution of a man, a portrait of a life-long friendship and collaboration that became one of the most successful singing duos of their time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArt Garfunkel writes about his life before, during, and after Simon amp; Garfunkel . . . about their folk-rock music in the roiling age that embraced and was defined by their pathbreaking sound. He writes about growing up in the 1940s and '50s (son of a traveling salesman), a middle class Jewish boy, living in a red brick semi-attached house in Kew Gardens, Queens, a kid who was different--from the age of five feeling his vocal cords \"vibrating with the love of sound\" . . . meeting Paul Simon in school, the funny guy who made Art laugh; their going on to junior high school together, of being twelve at the birth of rock'n'roll, both of them \"captured\" by it;  going to a recording studio in Manhattan to make a demo of their song, \"Hey Schoolgirl\" (for $7!) and the actual record (with Paul's father on bass) going to #40 on the national charts, selling 150,000 copies . . .\u003cbr\u003e         He writes about their becoming Simon amp; Garfunkel, taking the world by storm, ruling the pop charts from the time he was sixteen, about not being a natural performer, but more a thinker . . . touring; sex-for-thrills on the road, reading or walking to calm down (walking across two continents--the USA and Europe). He writes of being an actor working with directors Nicolas Roeg (\u003ci\u003eBad Timing\u003c\/i\u003e) and Mike Nichols (\"the greatest of them all\") . . . getting his masters in mathematics at Columbia; choosing music over a PhD; his slow unfolding split with Paul and its aftermath; learning to perform on his own, giving a thousand concerts worldwide, his voice going south (a stiffening of one vocal cord) and working to get it back . . . about being a husband, a father and much more.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178375758064,"sku":"2940169469653","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169469653_p0.jpg?v=1763683462","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169469653","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}