Jerry Garcia – $40 million
Greatest Hits: Truckin’, Sugaree
Throughout his thirty-year career, Jerry Garcia, born in San Francisco, was part of this influential band. He had a number of other bands and other solo records as well. On Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists” ranking, he was 13th. He was the primary songwriter of the Grateful Dead, better recognized for his form of acid music. Truckin ‘, “Truckin’,” He was famed for his improvisation and guitar solos, which suited him well because it eased tension, he said in an interview.
Jerry Garcia
Paul Simon – $75 million
Greatest Hits: Bridge Over Troubled Water
Almost every single, including “Mrs. Robinson,” “Sound of Silence,” and possibly their most successful success, “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” owned by Columbia Records, was composed by Paul Simon. The couple split up in 1970, and Graceland, inspired by South Africa, where he stayed for a while, was written by Simon. Graceland sold 14 million copies upon its publication, and it is his most popular solo work to date. He had success on Broadway, writing musicals. With the poet Derek Walcott, he wrote The Capeman. He had become a screenwriter.
Paul Simon
