Question: What came first, the release of the Greatest Hits, Etc. or the formation of Simon & Garfunkel?

Context articles: The Platinum Collection (Queen album)
America (Simon &amp; Garfunkel song)
Greatest Hits (Westlife album)
Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits
So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
Recorded as Jerry Landis
Live 1969
My Little Town
Paul Simon
Greatest Hits, Etc.

The Platinum Collection: Greatest Hits I, II & III is a box set by British rock band Queen which comprises their three greatest hits albums, "Greatest Hits", "Greatest Hits II" and "Greatest Hits III".
 The album was originally released on 13 November 2000 on the Parlophone label.
 A booklet with song facts and images is also included with the three CD set.
 The album's US release was delayed by Hollywood Records until September 2002 and featured the 2001 Japanese release remastered versions of "Greatest Hits Volumes 1" and "2" on the US and Canadian versions of "The Platinum Collection".
"America" is a song performed by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel, which they released from their fourth studio album, "Bookends," in 1968.
 Produced by the duo and Roy Halee, the song was later issued as a single in 1972 to promote the release of "Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits."
Greatest Hits is the second greatest hits album and final release by Irish boy band Westlife.
 It was released on 18 November 2011 by RCA Records and Sony Music.
 "Greatest Hits" is the group's second greatest hits album following "" (2002).
 The album is the group's first album not under Syco Music and not under the tutelage of Simon Cowell, having left Syco and Cowell in March 2011.
 The greatest hits album contains numerous singles that span throughout the band's career, as well as four new songs produced by John Shanks, which includes the lead single "Lighthouse", which was released on 14 November 2011.
 The compilation was released in two different formats, a standard edition containing the album's eighteen tracks, and a deluxe edition featuring numerous other singles of the band's discography, as well as a DVD containing almost all of the band's music videos.
Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits is the first compilation album from Simon & Garfunkel, released on June 14, 1972, two years after the duo had split.
"So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" is a song written by Paul Simon that was originally released on Simon & Garfunkel's 1970 album "Bridge over Troubled Water".
 It has since been released on several Simon & Garfunkel compilation albums.
 It has also been recorded by the London Pops Orchestra and Joe Chindamo trio.
 Art Garfunkel has stated that the origin of the song came from his request that Paul Simon write a song about the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright while Simon has stated that he wrote the song, despite not knowing who Wright was.
 Garfunkel sings lead on the majority of the song while Simon sings on the bridge.
Recorded as Jerry Landis is a compilation album of music by singer, songwriter, and guitarist Paul Simon, released in 2006.
 This album contains 18 songs recorded before Simon & Garfunkel released their first album, "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.".
 All songs are by Paul Simon except the song "Beat Love", which is a contemporary recording by Art Garfunkel, recorded under the name "Artie Garr".
 This album was released six years after an album of Simon & Garfunkel songs, from the same era, that contained a mix of Simon & Garfunkel recordings (under the name "Tom & Jerry"), and Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel songs.
 He recorded many of the songs on these albums under different aliases, such as "Jerry Landis", "True Taylor" and "Paul Kane".
Live 1969 is the fourth live album by Simon & Garfunkel released through Columbia Records.
 It consists of live recordings captured on the duo's final North American tour, prior to the release of their "Bridge over Troubled Water" album.
 Fifteen of the album's seventeen tracks are previously unreleased, with the exceptions being the live versions of "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" and "Kathy's Song", both of which initially appeared on Simon & Garfunkel's 1972 "Greatest Hits" album.
"My Little Town" is a 1975 song by the American duo Simon & Garfunkel.
 It was written by Paul Simon, who produced the track along with Art Garfunkel and Phil Ramone.
 Although the song would not appear on any of the duo's albums until later, it was included on both the solo releases for Simon ("Still Crazy After All These Years") and Garfunkel ("Breakaway") in 1975.
 This song was the first new single for Simon & Garfunkel since 1972's single hit "America".
 It became an all-new Simon & Garfunkel reunion single.
Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and actor.
 Simon's musical career has spanned seven decades, with his fame and commercial success beginning as half of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, which was formed in 1964 with Art Garfunkel.
 Simon was responsible for writing nearly all of the pair's songs, including three that reached No. 1 on the U.S. singles charts: "The Sound of Silence", "Mrs. Robinson", and "Bridge over Troubled Water".
Greatest Hits, Etc. is the first greatest hits compilation album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon, released in November 1977 by Columbia Records.
 It was his first compilation, spanning the first six years of his solo career.
 Its release was prompted by the facts that two years after his last studio album, Simon didn't yet have enough material to release a new full-length album, and his contract with Columbia was finished but a new album was needed to fulfill it.
 Simon later signed with Warner Bros.
 Records.
 The album was initially supposed to be called "Blatant Greatest Hits".