Film Graduation For Simon, Garfunkel
Keith Altham, NME, 1969
"THE Graduate, the film which features Mrs. Robinson, has given Simon and Garfunkel the kind of status in America that the Beatles have now," their music publisher, Alan Paramour, explained to me, following a recent visit to see the duo in New York. "They really became enormous after the release of Giant Green Pleasure Machine, but now have no idea how gigantic they are.
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