In 1964, the American music duo Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel released a song titled The Sound of Silence. Garfunkel, one half of the duo and co-writer of the famous song, summed up the meaning of this song by stating, “this is a song about the inability of people to communicate with each other” (Patton, 2023).

The song's origin and basis are unclear, with some thinking that the song commented on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, as the song was recorded three months after the assassination, although Simon & Garfunkel had performed the song live as Kane & Garr two months before the assassination.

«The Sound of Silence» was originally recorded in 1964 by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel and was included on their debut album: «Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M» titled as «The Sounds of Silence» Released in October 1964 the album was a commercial failure at first, but in spring 1965 the song began to attract growing airplay at ...

"We were really best friends up until Bridge over Troubled Water,” Simon says about his former bandmate and friend since elementary school Art Garfunkel, 82. “[Afterwards], it didn't have the harmony of the friendship… that was broken.”