{"id":20804,"date":"2015-06-02T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=20804"},"modified":"2015-05-31T13:41:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T11:41:18","slug":"20804","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=20804","title":{"rendered":"Paul Simon is an &#8216;idiot&#8217; with a &#8216;Napoleon complex&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/m-online.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3094957\/I-created-monster-Art-Garfunkel-45-year-battle-Paul-Simon-remains-one-showbiz-s-bitterest-feuds.html\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Simon is an &#8216;idiot&#8217; with a &#8216;Napoleon complex&#8217;: Art Garfunkel doesn&#8217;t hold back as he opens up about their 45-year-old battle &#8211; and even has a dig at Sir Paul McCartney<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">By<strong> Jennifer Smith for MailOnline<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon&#8217;s feud has been well documented for years<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>The pair split in 1970 after enjoying wild success as a 1960s musical duo<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Garfunkel, 73, has now claimed his former partner was an &#8216;idiot&#8217; for &#8216;walking away from this lucky place on top of the world&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><strong>Claimed that former Beatle George Harrison once came up to him at a party and said &#8216;my Paul is to me what your Paul is to you&#8217; in a dig at McCartney<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Their stormy relationship has been well documented for decades.\u00a0But rather than close the book on his feud with former bandmate Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel has thrown another jibe in his direction.\u00a0Describing the other half of his legendary musical duo, the 73-year-old has said his kindness towards Simon &#8216;created a monster&#8217;.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"i-4fe2a46664e4d5c8\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2015\/05\/24\/12\/0142A7AF0000044D-3094957-image-a-61_1432468575506.jpg\" alt=\"Art Garfunkel has further added to his bitter feud with former partner Paul Simon by saying he 'created a monster' by being kind to the musician as children. They are pictured performing together in 1972\" width=\"634\" height=\"509\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Garfunkel has further added to his bitter feud with former partner Paul Simon by saying he &#8216;created a monster&#8217; by being kind to the musician as children. They are pictured performing together in 1972<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 644px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"i-946fd68fa7ae79e4\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2015\/05\/25\/01\/16C72DD9000005DC-3094957-image-m-11_1432515227031.jpg\" alt=\"Paul McCartney (left) performing with George Harrison in the Beatles. Garfunkel claims Harrison once came up to him at a party and said 'my Paul is to me what your Paul is to you'\" width=\"634\" height=\"644\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul McCartney (left) performing with George Harrison in the Beatles. Garfunkel claims Harrison once came up to him at a party and said &#8216;my Paul is to me what your Paul is to you&#8217;<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In an interview with <strong>The Sunday Telegraph<\/strong>, the artist said: \u2018I don\u2019t want to say any anti Paul Simon things, but it seems very perverse to not enjoy the glory and walk away.\u2019<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\">He added: \u2018How can you walk away from this lucky place on top of the world, Paul? What\u2019s going on with you, you idiot?\u2019<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\">When asked whether 5ft 3in Simon had might have a Napoleon complex, Garfunkel replied: &#8216;I think you\u2019re on to something. I would say so, yes.&#8217;<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\">He said he felt &#8216;overshadowed&#8217; by his partner, also 73, likening his experience with that of George Harrison in The Beatles.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8216;George came up to me at a party once and said \u201cmy Paul is to me what your Paul is to you.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8216;He meant that psychologically they had the same effect on us. The Pauls sidelined us. I think George felt suppressed by Paul and I think that\u2019s what he saw with me and my Paul.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8216;Here\u2019s the truth: McCartney was a helluva music man who gave the band its energy, but he also ran away with a lot of the glory.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Read more: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3094957\/I-created-monster-Art-Garfunkel-45-year-battle-Paul-Simon-remains-one-showbiz-s-bitterest-feuds.html\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Simon is an &#8216;idiot&#8217;&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"  content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #808080; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Simon is an &#8216;idiot&#8217; with a &#8216;Napoleon complex&#8217;: Art Garfunkel doesn&#8217;t hold back as he opens up about their 45-year-old battle &#8211; and even has a dig at Sir Paul McCartney By Jennifer Smith for MailOnline Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon&#8217;s feud has been well documented for years The pair split in 1970 after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20804"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20806,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20804\/revisions\/20806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}