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Garfunkel, meanwhile, was Tom until the pair got good enough that he could stop being Tom. He also joined various bands (The Mystics, Tico and the Triumphs), usually under the Jerry Landis name. Variously, he was Jerry Landis, True Taylor, and Paul Kane. Simon quickly decided he liked hiding his cheesy, unsophisticated music behind a pretend name, and crafted several more over his pre-S&G career.
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(It was a different time.) So Art became Tom Graph and Paul became Jerry Landis, or "Tom and Jerry." Sadly, Art didn't chase Paul around the house only to take a mousetrap to the tail. According to Rolling Stone, the label feared their actual names were "too ethnic" and would alienate the Middle America crowd. "Schoolgirl" scored them a record deal, but not as Simon and Garfunkel. Emulating their idols, the Everly Brothers, Simon and Garfunkel would perform corny bubblegum songs like "Hey Schoolgirl," their first hit. When the pair started writing and playing together, they weren't crafting folk songs, but rather '50s sock-hop teen pop. Perhaps his eyes are simply getting old, or perhaps he started A Song of Ice and Fire and can't make heads or tails of it. He hasn't posted any new books since then. In fact, as of November 2016, he's read 1,246 books. Still though, why not just read an actual book? He seems to be pretty good at that. That's no joke: he literally read all 1,664 pages of the Random House dictionary, which is technically like reading every book ever written, just all scrambled up. Perhaps the most curious entry in his list comes from March 1993, when he read the dictionary. He does offer a separate page listing his favorite books ever, but even then it's just a list of books he really enjoyed. Did you know he read John Reed's Ten Days That Shook The World in December 1979? You do now! You still don't know if he liked it, or if it spoke to him in any way, but he sure spent part of that month poring through it. He just lists the title, author, year of publication, month and year he read it, and the page count. He doesn't review the books, or talk about them in any way. As he grew stronger and more confident, he would play increasingly bigger shows until, after four years of fighting, he could finally sing all his songs, including "Bridge," once again. In 2011, Garfunkel began retraining his voice at a rented concert hall, putting on "real show without the people." The following year, he began performing super-tiny, private shows at a New York art gallery, basically rehearsing in front of 90 or fewer people, still fighting to get the kinks out of his timeless voice. Shortly thereafter, the pair's tour was postponed, then canceled. Onstage with Paul Simon during the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Garfunkel could barely sing a note. He could still hit high and low notes, but couldn't go mid-level, making him - in his words - "crude instead of fine." After all, people listen to "Bridge" for the whole thing, not just "I will ease your MIIIIIIIINNNNNDDDD." Days later, he started having trouble swallowing, and a doctor visit revealed one of his vocal chords was "stiffer and fatter than the other one." This meant, in short, he couldn't sing. As Garfunkel recapped in a 2014 Rolling Stone interview, starting in early 2010, his voice began to fade after he ate lobster and choked on a big piece.