In 1966, the folk-rock duo Simon and Garfunkel recorded a track called “7 O’Clock News/Silent Night” for their third album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. The track is a sound collage–Simon and Garfunkel’s version of the Christmas carol “Silent Night” overlaid with a newscaster reading actual events that took place in 1966. “Silent Night” is mixed on the left channel, and the news broadcast is mixed on the right channel, so if you listen to the track on headphones, you hear beautiful, peaceful music in your left ear and a disturbing, jarring news report in your right ear.

As the track........

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