Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water: 40th Anniversary Edition

This deluxe DVD+CD set includes the original 11-song album plus the duo's never-before-commercially-available "Songs Of America" CBS television special from 1969 on DVD.

The DVD will also include The Harmony Game: The Making of Bridge Over Troubled Water, a newly-created documentary on Bridge Over Troubled Water featuring new interviews with Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.

Bridge Over Troubled Water: 40th Anniversary Edition's full-color, 24-page booklet will include rare photography, memorabilia, and separate liner note essays that will provide overviews of the album production (written by former A&R executive and current TV music supervisor Michael Hill) and the "Songs Of America" TV special.

"Songs Of America" (running time approximately 70 minutes) is a beautiful documentary that had its first and only broadcast November 30, 1969, on the CBS television network. The special features footage of Simon & Garfunkel on stage, in the recording studio, and traveling on tour. Interviews and performances are intertwined with news footage from the period, some of it deemed too controversial by original sponsor Bell Atlantic (a subsidiary of AT&T), who in the end refused to air it. Included is footage from the period of Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, activist Cesar Chavez, and the Poor People's March on Washington. The film is a fascinating depiction of two artists struggling to define their role within a society that is splintering apart.