Simon & Garfunkel Aka: Tom & Jerry Origin: Kew Gardens Hills, Queens New York City, U.S.A. Genres: Folk rock Years active: 1956–1964, 1965–1970 Rolling Stone ranks Simon & Garfunkel number 3 on their 2003 list of 20 Greatest Duos of All Time and number 40 of 100 Greatest Artists. They have three of the 2003 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: number 234 , 'Bookends,' number 202 , 'Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme,' and number 48 , 'Bridge Over Troubled Water.' They have two songs in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and three of the songs in the Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.