The best No 1 records: Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water

1970: In the wake of the traumas of the late 60s, no wonder this record felt like balm for a generationBridge Over Troubled Water may not have been the first No 1 of the 70s - it was preceded in the UK by Edison Lighthouse's Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) and Lee Marvin's Wan'drin' Star – but it felt like it. Released in the wake of the Charles Manson murders, the death of Brian Jones and the slaying of a black man at Altamont, it had the quality of an elegy. And the piano work – which ...

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