Diary of a Madman [LP] [VINYL]

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes digital download. Bookends is the fourth studio album by Simon & Garfunkel. Produced by Paul Simon, Roy Halee and Art Garfunkel, the album was released on April 3, 1968, in the United States by Columbia Records. The duo had risen to fame two years prior with the albums Sounds of Silence and Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme and the soundtrack album for the 1967 film The Graduate. Bookends is a concept album that explores a life journey from childhood to old age. Side one of the album marks successive stages in life, the theme serving as bookends to the life cycle. Side two largely consists of unused material for The Graduate soundtrack. Simon's lyrics concern youth, disillusionment, relationships, old age, and mortality. Much of the material was crafted alongside producer John Simon, who joined the recording when Paul Simon suffered from writer's block. The album was recorded gradually over the period of a year, with production speeding up around the later months of 1967. Album Tracks 1. Bookends Theme 0 32 2. Save the Life of My Child 2 49 3. America 3 36 4. Overs 2 15 5. Voices of Old People 2 07 6. Old Friends 2 36 7. Bookends Theme (Reprise) 1 20 1. Fakin' It 3 17 2. Punky's Dilemma 2 13 3. Mrs. Robinson 4 04 4. A Hazy Shade of Winter 2 17 5. At the Zoo 2 23

Double 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Previously unreleased live show, recorded at The Fabulous Forum in Los Angeles on the Rumours Tour on August 29, 1977. The concert's setlist draws almost exclusively from Fleetwood Mac and Rumours, the first two albums recorded by the band's latest incarnation Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and Christine McVie, and the newest members, Stevie Nicks, and Lindsey Buckingham. The lone nod to Fleetwood Mac's other nine studio albums is a performance of "Oh Well, " a rock-guitar masterpiece originally released in 1969 and written by the band's founder, guitarist Peter Green. Album Tracks 1. Say You Love Me (Live at the Fabulous Forum, Inglewood, Ca, 08/29/77) 2. Monday Morning (Live at the Fabulous Forum, Inglewood, Ca, 08/29/77) 3. Dreams (Live at the Fabulous Forum, Inglewood, Ca, 08/29/77) 4. Oh Well (Pt. 1) [Live at the Fabulous Forum, Inglewood, Ca, 08/29/77] 5. Rhiannon (Live at the Fabulous Forum, Inglewood, Ca, 08/29/77) 1. Oh Daddy (Live at the Fabulous Forum, Inglewood, Ca 08/29/77) 2. Never Going Back Again (Live at the Fabulous Forum, Inglewood, Ca, 08/29/77) 3. Landslide (Live at the Fabulous Forum, Inglewood, Ca, 08/29/77) 4. Over My Head (Live at the Fabulous Forum, Inglewood, Ca, 08/29/77) 5. Gold Dust Woman (Live at the Fabulous Forum, Inglewood, Ca, 08/29/77) 1. You Make Loving Fun (Live at the Fabulous Forum, Inglewood, Ca, 08/29/77) 2. I'm So Afraid (Live at the Fabulous Forum, Inglewood, Ca, 08/29/77) 3. Go Your Own Way (Live at the Fabulous Forum, Inglewood, Ca, 08/29/77) 4. World Turning (Live at the Fabulous Forum, Inglewood, Ca, 08/29/77) 1. Blue Letter (Live at the Fabulous Forum, Inglewood, Ca, 08/29/77) 2. The Chain (Live at the Fabulous Forum, Inglewood, Ca, 08/29/77) 3. Second Hand News (Live at the Fabulous Forum, Inglewood, Ca, 08/29/77) 4. Songbird (Live at the Fabulous Fo