Rock: What a Gas!

As you get older, you think better—up to the age of 22, that is. If you're a jerk at 22, you're always going to be stupid. If you're a genius, somewhere at 22 it's there.

—Paul Simon

If the young were not so cocksure, it would be easier to appreciate them. In the case of Simon & Garfunkel, however, no amount of cockiness can obscure the fact that what was there at 22—when they began—is still there four years later, and in widening dimensions. The latest to discover this are those who have heard S. & G. sing the sound-track themes...

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