Editing Simon & Garfunkel (section)

==Musical style==
Over the course of their career, Simon & Garfunkel's music gradually moved from a basic folk rock sound to incorporate more experimental elements for the time, including [[Latin music|Latin]] and [[gospel music]].<ref name="AM">{{cite web |author=Richie Unterberger |author-link=Richie Unterberger |title=Simon & Garfunkel – All Music Guide |website=[[AllMusic]] |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/simon-garfunkel-mn0000038936/biography |access-date=September 22, 2014}}</ref> According to ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', their music struck a chord among lonely, alienated young adults near the end of the 1960s.<ref name="RollingStone1990">{{cite magazine| date =August 23, 1990| title =The Top 25 Rock & Roll Albums of the '60s| magazine =[[Rolling Stone]]| issue =585 | page =76 | location =New York City | issn =0035-791X }}</ref> According to ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]'', though Simon & Garfunkel were a highly regarded folk act "distinguished by their intuitive harmonies and Paul Simon's articulate songwriting", they were more conservative than the [[American folk-music revival|folk music revivalists]] of [[Greenwich Village]].<ref name=":0" /> By the late 1960s, they had become the "folk establishment ... primarily unthreatening and accessible, which forty years later makes them an ideal gateway act to the weirder, harsher, more complex folkies of the [[1960s Counterculture|60s counterculture]]".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/11325-live-1969/|title=Simon & Garfunkel: Live 1969|website=Pitchfork|language=en|access-date=June 5, 2019}}</ref> Their later albums explored more ambitious production techniques and incorporated elements of gospel, rock, R&B, and classical, revealing a "voracious musical vocabulary".<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Deusner |first=Stephen |author-link=Stephen Deusner |date=March 18, 2011 |title=Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water Album Review |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15197-bridge-over-troubled-water |access-date=June 5, 2019 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]}}</ref>