Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel as Tom and Jerry pose for a ... which started after the 1979 suicide of his partner Laurie Bird, whom he began dating after his 1975 divorce from his first wife ...

PRINCETON -- Art Garfunkel sang, conversed and delighted ... "we went back to the Dakota--Yoko and John and me and Laurie Bird. David Bowie was there with his girlfriend Coco," he continued.

But now, says Michael Shelden, Art Garfunkel has a chance to put things ... in 1979 after the suicide of his longtime girlfriend Laurie Bird. She died of a drugs overdose, and the event was ...