{"id":49224,"date":"2020-08-26T16:21:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T16:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=49224"},"modified":"2021-12-22T14:12:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:12:23","slug":"hello-darkness-my-old-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/hello-darkness-my-old-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #f7111d;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">College roommate who went blind reveals untold\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">true\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">story<\/span><\/strong><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">.<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN-US\"><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Art Garfunkel and Sandy Greenberg were college roommates at Columbia University.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The lyrics to the song were written by Paul Simon \u2013 another friend from high school days of Art Garfunkel.<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qYS0EeaAUMw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">It is one of the best-loved songs of all time. Simon &amp; Garfunkel&#8217;s hit\u00a0<strong>The Sound Of Silence<\/strong>\u00a0topped the US charts and went platinum in the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">It was named among the 20 most performed songs of the 20th century, included in Rolling Stone&#8217;s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and provided the unforgettable soundtrack to 1967 film classic The Graduate. But to one man The Sound Of Silence means much more than just a No 1 song on the radio with its poignant opening lines: &#8220;Hello Darkness my old friend, I&#8217;ve come to talk with you again.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Sanford &#8220;Sandy&#8221; Greenberg is Art Garfunkel&#8217;s best friend, and reveals in a moving new memoir, named after that lyric, that the song was a touching tribute to their undying bond, and the singer&#8217;s sacrifice that saved Sandy&#8217;s life when he unexpectedly lost his sight.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">&#8220;He lifted me out of the grave,&#8221; says Sandy, aged 79, who recounts his plunge into sudden blindness, and how Art Garfunkel&#8217;s selfless devotion gave him reason to live again.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Sandy and Arthur, as Art was then known, met during their first week as students at the prestigious Columbia University in New York.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">&#8220;A young man wearing an Argyle sweater and corduroy pants and blond hair with a crew cut came over and said, &#8216;Hi, I&#8217;m Arthur Garfunkel&#8217;,&#8221; Sandy recalls.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">They became roommates, bonding over a shared taste in books, poetry and music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">&#8220;Every night Arthur and I would sing. He would play his guitar and I would be the DJ. The air was always filled with music.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">&#8220;Still teenagers, they made a pact to always be there for each other in times of trouble.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">&#8220;If one was in extremis, the other would come to his rescue,&#8221; says Sandy.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">They had no idea their promise would be tested so soon. Just months later, Sandy recalls: &#8220;I was at a baseball game and suddenly my eyes became cloudy and my vision became unhinged. Shortly after that darkness descended.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Doctors diagnosed conjunctivitis, assuring it would pass. But days later Sandy went blind, and doctors realised that glaucoma had destroyed his optic nerves.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Sandy was the son of a rag-and-bone man. His family, Jewish immigrants in Buffalo, New York, had no money to help him, so he dropped out of college, gave up his dream of becoming a lawyer, and plunged into depression.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t see anyone, I just refused to talk to anybody,&#8221; says Sandy. &#8220;And then unexpectedly Arthur flew in, saying he had to talk to me. He said, &#8216;You&#8217;re gonna come back, aren&#8217;t you?&#8217; &#8220;I said,: &#8216;No.There&#8217;s no conceivable way.&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">&#8220;He was pretty insistent, and finally said, &#8216;Look, I don&#8217;t think you get it. I need you back there.That&#8217;s the pact we made together: we would be there for the other in times of crises. I will help you&#8217;.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Together they returned to Columbia University, where Sandy became dependent on Garfunkel&#8217;s support. Art would walk Sandy to class, bandage his wounds when he fell, and even filled out his graduate school applications.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Garfunkel called himself &#8220;Darkness&#8221; in a show of empathy. The singer explained: &#8220;I was saying, &#8216;I want to be together where you are, in the black&#8217;.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Sandy recalls: &#8220;He would come in and say, &#8216;Darkness is going to read to you now.&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u201cThen he would take me to class and back. He would take me around the city. He altered his entire life so that it would accommodate me.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Garfunkel would talk about Sandy with his high-school friend Paul Simon, from Queens, New York, as the folk rock duo struggled to launch their musical careers, performing at local parties and clubs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Though Simon wrote the song, the lyrics to The Sound of Silence are infused with Garfunkel&#8217;s compassion as Darkness, Sandy&#8217;s old friend.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Guiding Sandy through New York one day, as they stood in the vast forecourt of bustling Grand Central Station, Garfunkel said that he had to leave for an assignment, abandoning his blind friend alone in the rush-hour crowd, terrified, stumbling and falling. &#8220;I cut my forehead&#8221; says Sandy.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">&#8220;I cut my shins. My socks were bloodied. I had my hands out and bumped into a woman&#8217;s breasts. It was a horrendous feeling of shame and humiliation.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">&#8220;I started running forward, knocking over coffee cups and briefcases, and finally I got to the local train to Columbia University. It was the worst couple of hours in my life.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Back on campus, he bumped into a man, who apologised.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">&#8220;I knew that it was Arthur&#8217;s voice,&#8221; says Sandy. &#8220;For a moment I was enraged, and then I understood what happened: that his colossally insightful, brilliant yet wildly risky strategy had worked.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Garfunkel had not abandoned Sandy at the station, but had followed him the entire way home, watching over him.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">&#8220;Arthur knew it was only when I could prove to myself I could do it that I would have real independence,&#8221; says Sandy. &#8220;And it worked, because after that I felt that I could do anything.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">&#8220;That moment was the spark that caused me to live a completely different life, without fear, without doubt. For that I am tremendously grateful to my friend&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Sandy not only graduated, but went on to study for a master&#8217;s degree at Harvard and Oxford.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">While in Britain he received a phone call from his friend &#8211; and with it the chance to keep his side of their pact.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Garfunkel wanted to drop out of architecture school and record his first album with Paul Simon, but explained: &#8220;I need $400 to get started.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Sandy, by then married to his high school sweetheart, says: &#8220;We had $404 in our current account. I said, &#8216;Arthur, you will have your cheque.&#8217; &#8220;It was an instant reaction, because he had helped me restart my life, and his request was the first time that I had been able to live up to my half of our solemn covenant.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">The 1964 album, Wednesday Morning, 3 AM, was a critical and commercial flop, but one of the tracks was The Sound Of Silence, which was released as a single the following year and went to No 1 across the world<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">&#8220;The Sound Of Silence meant a lot, because it started out with the words &#8216;Hello darkness&#8217; and this was Darkness singing, the guy who read to me after I returned to Columbia blind,&#8221; says Sandy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Simon &amp; Garfunkel went on to have four smash albums, with hits including Mrs Robinson, The Boxer, and Bridge Over Troubled Waters.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Amazingly, Sandy went on to extraordinary success as an inventor, entrepreneur, investor, presidential adviser and philanthropist. The father of three, who launched a $3million prize to find a cure for blindness, has always refused to use a white cane or guide dog.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be &#8216;the blind guy&#8217;,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I wanted to be Sandy Greenberg, the human being.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Six decades later the two men remain best friends, and Garfunkel credits Sandy with transforming his life.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">With Sandy, &#8220;my real life emerged,&#8221; says the singer. &#8220;I became a better guy in my own eyes, and began to see who I was &#8211; somebody who gives to a friend.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">&#8220;I blush to find myself within his dimension. My friend is the gold standard of decency.&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000080;\">Says Sandy: &#8220;I am the luckiest man in the world.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND\u00a0 College roommate who went blind reveals untold\u00a0true\u00a0story. \u00a0 Art Garfunkel and Sandy Greenberg were college roommates at Columbia University. \u00a0 The lyrics to the song were written by Paul Simon \u2013 another friend from high school days of Art Garfunkel. &nbsp; It is one of the best-loved songs of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[29196,1635],"class_list":{"0":"post-49224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-aside","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-articles","8":"tag-columbia-university","9":"tag-paul-simon","10":"post_format-post-format-aside"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>HELLO DARKNESS MY OLD FRIEND<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It is one of the best-loved songs of all time. 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