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In his final days Lyndon B. Johnson would listen to "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkel repeatedly while agonizing over his legacy; worrying that he would only be remembered for the Vietnam War and not as the architect of equal rights and Medicare.
After Elvis performed Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water", Paul Simon, who attended the show, said "That's it, we might as well all give up now."
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The 2001 University of Leicester study reported that songs like ‘Everybody Hurts’ by REM and Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water‘ soothed cows enough to produce the most milk
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The line 'sail on silver girl' from Bridge Over Troubled Water refers to Paul Simon's then-wife Peggy's grey hair.
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Senator Sam Ervin, chair of the Senate Watergate Committee, recorded an album in 1973, which included this cover of "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
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I learned that Tony Lane designed 100's of record covers (incl. Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel, Bad by Michael Jackson, Turn Back by Toto), the entire Hollywood Babylon book, and the Kia logo.
