Fate for Breakfast by Art Garfunkel

Fate for Breakfast, Art Garfunkel's fourth solo album, came out on Columbia in March 1979, and the man's choirboy-pure voice is draped in so much soft-rock silk it practically floats off the turntable. Stateside it stalled: it became the first Garfunkel record to miss the Billboard Top 40, stopping at 67, and the first with no US Top 40 single.

Europe had other ideas. It went top ten in parts of the continent, and the European pressing carried "Bright Eyes", the ache-drenched ballad from the film of Watership Down, which went to number one in the UK and became the country's biggest-selling single of 1979. There's also a cover of Cliff Richard's 1976 hit "Miss You Nights". It was issued in six different sleeves, each catching Garfunkel at the breakfast table from a new angle, and David Sanborn later reworked "And I Know" as "Love Will Come Someday" on his 1982 album As We Speak.

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