5 STORIES
1964 · 60S
A folk meditation that was almost stillborn, resurrected eighteen months later by a producer's overdub and a country in mourning. What began…
1966 · 60S
SCARBOROUGH, NORTH YORKSHIRE, UK
It sounds like the gentlest love song ever recorded, but it is a centuries-old English riddle ballad about a reunion that can never happen —…
1968 · 60S
The song attached forever to cinema's most famous seduction is not about seduction, and was not even written about Mrs. Robinson. It began a…
1969 · 60S
NEW YORK CITY, USA
A bruised acoustic epic dressed up as folk modesty, "The Boxer" turned Paul Simon's writerly insecurities into one of the most-recorded Amer…
1970 · 70S
The most comforting song in the American songbook was written by a man who was quietly falling out with his best friend, and handed to that …