✅ Sandy Greenberg and Art Garfunkel were college roommates. ✅ Garfunkel referred to himself as “darkness” after Greenberg went blind ✅ Greenberg provided some money to help Garfunkel record an album. But there are two facts that a post didn't include.
A viral post accurately retells the story behind Simon & Garfunkel’s opening lyric of “Hello darkness, my old friend” to the song, “The Sound of Silence.”A viral social media post about Art Garfunkel’s lifelong friendship with Sandy Greenberg was a generally accurate retelling of their history.
As [Greenberg] despaired in darkness at his parents’ house in Buffalo, N.Y., convinced he’d never make it through Columbia without sight, Garfunkel ‘flew in, turned me around and said, ‘I will help you.’’As Garfunkel devoted himself to being his friend’s eyes, he would sometimes call himself Darkness. ‘He divorced himself from the life he’d been living, altering his own ways to conform better to mine,’ says Greenberg.
‘It was one of the most brilliant strategies,’ Greenberg says. ‘Arthur, of course, had been with me the whole way.’