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Live album by Simon & Garfunkel
Released February 16, 1982
Recorded September 19, 1981
Venue Great Lawn, Central Park, New York City
Genre Folk rock
Length 75:51
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Roy Halee, Phil Ramone
Simon & Garfunkel chronology
The Simon and Garfunkel Collection: 17 of Their All-Time Greatest Recordings
(1981) The Concert in Central Park
(1982) 20 Greatest Hits
(1991)

The Concert in Central Park is the first live album by American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, released on February 16, 1982, by Warner Bros. Records. It was recorded on September 19, 1981, at a free benefit concert on the Great Lawn in Central Park, New York City, where the pair performed in front of 500,000 people.[1][2] A TV special of the event was shown on TV and released on video. Proceeds went toward the redevelopment and maintenance of the park, which had deteriorated due to lack of municipal funding. The concert and album marked the start of a three-year reunion of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.

The concept of a benefit concert in Central Park had been proposed by Parks Commissioner Gordon Davis and promoter Ron Delsener. Television channel HBO agreed to carry the concert, and they worked with Delsener to decide on Simon and Garfunkel as the appropriate act for this event. Besides hits from their years as a duo, their 21-song set list included material from their solo careers, and covers. Among them were `The Sound of Silence`, `Mrs. Robinson`, `The Boxer` and Simon`s `Late in the Evening`, with the show concluding with a reprise of the latter. Ongoing personal tensions between the duo led them to decide against a permanent reunion, despite the success of the concert and a subsequent world tour.

The album and film were released the year after the concert. Simon and Garfunkel`s performance was praised by music critics and the album was commercially successful, peaking No. 6 on the Billboard 200 album charts and being certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The video recordings were initially broadcast on HBO and were subsequently made available on Laserdisc, CED, VHS and DVD. A single was released of Simon and Garfunkel`s live performance of the Everly Brothers song `Wake Up Little Susie`. It reached No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1982 and is the duo`s last Top 40 hit. In Canada the single was No. 4 for 2 weeks on the AC charts.[3]

Side one
No. Title Length
1. `Mrs. Robinson` 3:52
2. `Homeward Bound` 4:22
3. `America` 4:47
4. `Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard` 3:22
5. `Scarborough Fair` 3:52
Side two
No. Title Length
1. `April Come She Will` 2:37
2. `Wake Up Little Susie` 2:19
3. `Still Crazy After All These Years` 4:04
4. `American Tune` 4:33
5. `Late in the Evening` 4:09
Side three
No. Title Length
1. `Slip Slidin` Away` 4:54
2. `A Heart in New York` 2:49
3. `Kodachrome/Maybellene` 5:51
4. `Bridge over Troubled Water` 4:48
Side four
No. Title Length
1. `Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover` 4:23
2. `The Boxer` 6:02
3. `Old Friends` 2:57
4. `The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin` Groovy)` 2:01
5. `The Sound of Silence` 4:13
Personnel
Paul Simon – vocals, guitar
Art Garfunkel – vocals
Pete Carr, David Brown – guitar
Anthony Jackson – bass guitar
Richard Tee – keyboards (musical director)
Steve Gadd, Grady Tate – drums
Rob Mounsey – synthesizer
John Gatchell, John Eckert – trumpet
Dave Tofani, Gerry Niewood – saxophone