Art Garfunkel speaks out about feud with Paul Simon.

In 1970, after their biggest selling album Bridge over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkel went their separate ways.

And 45 years later, Art Garfunkel has thrown some highly inflammatory fuel to the flames, saying Simon’s 160cm (5’2″) stature could be to blame.

The 73-year-old singer spoke to UK newspaper The Telegraph and opened up about his relationship with Paul Simon, also 73, saying that treating Simon as special in the early years of their friendship “created a monster”.

When pressed about whether Simon might have a Napoleon complex (a colloquial term that suggests people who are short make up for it by being aggressive and attention-seeking), Garfunkel agrees. “I think you’re on to something. I would say so, yes.”

Garfunkel, for the record is 180cm (5'11").

Bridge Over Troubled Water , released in 1970, was the last studio album the pair recorded. It became the best-selling album of 1970, 1971 and 1972, and was the best-selling album of all time until Michael Jackson's Thriller in 1982. After that, things between the duo became complicated.

“It was very strange." Garfunkel told The Telegraph . "I want to open up about this. I don’t want to say any anti-Paul Simon things, but it seems very perverse to not enjoy the glory and walk away from it instead. Crazy. What I would have done is take a rest from Paul, because he was getting on my nerves. The jokes had run dry."

They went their separate ways, but reunited repeatedly to do a string of concerts, including the Concert in Central Park in 1981. But when The Telegraph asked Art Garfunkel now whether he would reunite with his other half, the reaction was mixed.

“Will I do another tour with Paul? Well, that’s quite do-able. When we get together, with his guitar, it's a delight to both of our ears. A little bubble comes over us and it seems effortless. We blend. So, as far as this half is concerned, I would say, 'Why not, while we're still alive?

"But I've been in that same place for decades. This is where I was in 1971."

The pair on their last tour in 2010.

Garfunkel throws a string of hypothetical questions at Simon: “How can you walk away from this lucky place on top of the world, Paul? What’s going on with you, you idiot? How could you let that go, jerk?”

Simon & Garfunkel's 'Concert in the Park', New York, 1981:

In the interview, Garfunkel recalls an anecdote when Beatles guitarist George Harrison compared Paul Simon to Paul McCartney.

"George came up to me at a party once and said 'my Paul is to me what your Paul is to you'. He meant that psychologically they had the same effect on us. The Pauls sidelined us," Garfunkel said. "I think George felt suppressed by Paul and I think that's what he saw with me and my Paul. Here's the truth: McCartney was a helluva music man who gave the band its energy, but he also ran away with a lot of the glory."

Since their break up, Paul Simon has gone on to write music for Broadway, and release 11 album's seperate to Simon & Garfunkel. Art Garfunkel has gone on to star in films, write poetry and release 10 studio album's.

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