A. from Columbia University, where he roomed with singer Art Garfunkel.

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In a career spanning more than 40 years, he's written songs for artists from The Supremes to Art Garfunkel, and he's stepped behind the microphone, too.

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Later, the 1966 album "Sounds of Silence" by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel was a hit in its day but not before the duo struggled and split early on.

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