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I Am a Rock

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288:"This L.P. contains twelve of the songs that I have written over the past two years. There are some here that I would not write today. I don't believe in them as I once did. I have included them because they played an important role in the transition. It is discomforting, almost painful, to look back over something someone else created and realize that someone else was you. I am not ashamed of where I've been and what I've thought. It's just not me anymore. It is perfectly clear to me that the songs I write today will not be mine tomorrow. I don't regret the loss." 3010: 2632: 271:, which was released on October 19, 1964. Some sources say that it was performed by Simon on January 27, 1965, on a promo show for the BBC. Simon likely began writing the song before the end of January 1964, and had it completed by May 1965, when he first recorded it. It was included on his solo-acoustic 627:
This single had two incarnations. First, as a promotion, it was released on red vinyl to radio stations, with a mono mix on one side and a stereo version on the other. These copies are somewhat difficult to locate for collectors. The standard version sold in stores, however, was the black vinyl 45
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The album quickly capitalized on the success of the new album's title track as a #1 single, and itself rose to #21 on the Billboard charts. The duo cashed in quickly on their new-found success. They released "I Am a Rock" as a single in the late spring of 1966, and the song reached #3 on the
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Simon immediately returned to the United States, and with Garfunkel in December 1965 began a series of hasty recording sessions to match the electric "mold" created by Wilson with many of the other songs that Simon had recorded on the
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onto the original track. He then released the song as a single, whereupon it entered the United States pop charts. When Simon heard about the success of this song, he was still touring in Europe as a solo folk singer.
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label. The B-side was a version of "Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall," which was later released on Simon & Garfunkel's even-more-successful (and critically acclaimed) album
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they were regular visitors to the pop charts with some of the best folk-rock of the era, including 'Homeward Bound,' 'I Am a Rock,' and 'A Hazy Shade of Winter.'
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remained unavailable in North America. This was partly because Simon himself was dissatisfied with the album, saying on the album's liner notes:
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In 1965, the solo-acoustic version "I Am a Rock" was also released as a rare A-side of a single in the UK, backed with "Leaves That are Green".
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charts, the third single (chronologically) by Simon & Garfunkel to reach the top 5 (after "The Sound of Silence" and "
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album was only made available in North America when it was released as part of the boxed set of albums
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described the song as a "hard-driving, pulsating ode about rather isolated young man."
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Paul Simon and Friends: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
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A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara'd into Submission)
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claim this is a promo show for the release of the Simon & Garfunkel EP
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which he originally recorded and released in August 1965, only in the
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said that the duo "sing about loneliness in usual poetic terms."
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Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 24, 1966
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using some of the same session players that had appeared on
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It was sung with parody lyrics in Narf Over Troubled Water.
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Offiziellecharts.de – Simon & Garfunkel – I Am a Rock"
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Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog after the War
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While Simon was in Denmark during the summer of 1965,
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Until 1981, the initial recording of "I Am a Rock" on
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Thematically, "I Am a Rock" deals with isolation and
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Paul Simon's Graceland Journey: Under African Skies
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Revolver: How the Beatles Re-Imagined Rock 'n' Roll
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Index


Single
Paul Simon
The Paul Simon Songbook
B-side
Leaves That Are Green
Genre
Folk rock
Label
CBS
Songwriter(s)
Paul Simon
Producer(s)
Paul Simon
Mother and Child Reunion
Paul Simon
The Paul Simon Songbook
United Kingdom
Art Garfunkel
folk rock
Simon & Garfunkel
Sounds of Silence
B-side
A-side
The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
emotional detachment
Simon & Garfunkel
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
The Paul Simon Songbook

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