Art Garfunkel has announced further European and US tour dates.
The smooth-voiced singer, whose biggest solo hits were Bright Eyes and I Only have Eyes for You, has added thirteen dates to his ongoing US tour. An eight-show tour of Finland, Denmark, Germany and Holland will be undertaken in November and December. No Irish dates have as yet been announced.
Garfunkel began singing at the age of four, and seven years later he was singing Everly Brothers songs at school talent shows with a partner, Paul Simon, who came from his Forest Hills neighborhood in Queens, New York. The pair ended up working at the famed Brill Building, a hit factory for songwriting.
"We practiced in the basement so much that we got professional sounding, " recalls Garfunkel on his website. "We made demos in Manhattan and knocked on all the doors of the record companies with our hearts in our throats."
The duo first went under the name Tom and Jerry and landed a recording contract in 1957 but famously parted company in the 1970s, at the height of their shared fame.
They have occasionally reunited in the decades since. Bridge Over Troubled Waters has sold 14 million copies in total, and is the biggest-selling album of all time for a duo.
In 1990, Paul and Art were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2003, they were were proud recipients of the Grammy's Lifetime Achievement Award. The duo performed one of their best-known songs, Sound of Silence to open the live broadcast. Simon & Garfunkel duly announced a world tour which continued into 2004.
Garfunkel has also garnered a modest degree of fame as an actor, with roles in director Mike Nichols' movies Catch-22, released in 1969, and Carnal Knowledge (1971) in which his co-stars were Ann-Margret, Candice Bergen and Jack Nicholson.
He also starred in Nicholas Roeg's Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession, released in 1980, which also featured Theresa Russell and Harvey Keitel.
