Homeward Bound
| Homeward Bound | |
|---|---|
| Simon & Garfunkel | |
| publication | 1966 |
| length | 2:30 |
| Genre (s) | Folk rock |
| Author (s) | Paul Simon |
| Publisher (s) | Columbia Records |
| album | Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme |
Homeward Bound is a folk-rock - ballad of the American duo Simon & Garfunkel . The piece was written by Paul Simon , released as a single in early 1966 and released in the fall of the same year on Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme , the third studio album by Simon & Garfunkel.
Emergence
The song was written by Paul Simon in England in 1965. Simon, then 23 years old, was on his way from a gig near Liverpool to his girlfriend Kathy in London and had to wait at a train station. This is said to have been Widnes train station . Today a plaque reminds of the origin of the song.
Chart placements
As a single, the song reached number five on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 9 in the UK UK Top 40 . It was represented in both charts for twelve weeks.
Web links
- Lyrics on the website of Simon & Garfunkel
- Homeward Bound at Allmusic (English)
- Homewardbound at Discogs (English)
- Homeward Bound at songfacts.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tony Schwartz: The Playboy Interview . In: Playboy . February 1984 (Interview with Paul Simon, cited from Playboy Interview: Paul Simon Retrieved December 12, 2011.).
- ↑ Roswitha Ebel: Paul Simon: his music, his life . epubli, 2004, ISBN 978-3-937729-00-8 , pp. 21 .
- ^ Marc Eliot: Paul Simon: A Life . John Wiley and Sons, 2010, ISBN 978-0-470-43363-8 , pp. 49 .
- ↑ Simon & Garfunkel. In: Billboard Hot 100.Retrieved September 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Homeward Bound in the Official UK Charts (English)