Art Garfunkel's relationship with former singing partner Paul Simon has been famously tense. That situation is not likely to improve any time soon following Garfunkel's new remarks that Simon is a "monster" with a Napoleon complex.
"How can you walk away from this lucky place on top of the world, Paul?," Garfunkel, speaking about the duo's 1971 split, said in an interview with The Telegraph. "What's going on with you, you idiot? How could you let that go, jerk?"
And when Garfunkel was asked if the diminutive Simon might have a Napoleon complex, Garfunkel replied, "I think you're on to something. I would say so, yes."
Garfunkel went on to blame himself - kind of - for Simon's shortcomings.
According to The Telegraph:
He adds that at school he felt sorry for Paul because of his height, and he offered him love and friendship as a compensation. "And that compensation gesture has created a monster. End of interview."
Simon and Garfunkel grew up together in Queens, New York, and went on to become the most successful folk-rock duo of the 1960s, according to Billboard. Their last album of new material together was 1970's "Bridge Over Troubled Water." The two have since occasionally played live together, most notably at a 1981 reunion concert in New York's Central Park that drew more than half a million fans, Billboard reported.
