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Double vinyl LP pressing including digital download. Digitally re-mastered edition of this 1981 live album from the Folk/Rock duo. The Concert in Central Park was the first live album by Simon & Garfunkel, released in February 1982. It was recorded in September 1981 at a free benefit concert in Central Park, New York City, where the pair performed in front of more than 500,000 people. 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 worked with Delsener to decide on Simon and Garfunkel as the appropriate act for this event. Besides hit songs from their years as a duo, their set-list included material from their solo and duo careers, and covers. Among the songs performed were the classics InchThe Sound of SilenceInch, InchMrs. RobinsonInch, and InchThe BoxerInch; the event concluded with a reprise of Simon's song, InchLate in the EveningInch. Album Tracks 1. Mrs. Robinson (Live) 2. Homeward Bound (Live) 3. America (Live) 4. Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard (Live) 5. Scarborough Fair (Live) 6. April Come She Will (Live) 7. Wake Up Little Susie (Live) 8. Still Crazy After All These Years (Live) 9. American Tune (Live) 10. Late in the Evening (Live) 1. Slip Slidin' Away (Live) 2. A Heart in New York (Live) 3. Kodachrome / Mabellene; Kodachrome\ Mabellene (Live) 4. Bridge Over Troubled Water (Live) 5. Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover (Live) 6. The Boxer (Live) 7. Old Friends (Live) 8. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy) (Live) 9. The Sounds of Silence (Live)
