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You Probably Think This Song Is About You: Carly Simon, ‘You’re So Vain,’ and the 50-Year Mystery
You Probably Think This Song Is About You: Carly Simon, “You’re So Vain,” and the 50-Year Mystery The party was at her sister’s apartment, and the man walked in wearing a scarf so long it seemed to trail his own legend behind him. He crossed to the mirror the instant he entered — there is…
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Carly Simon: The Heart Behind the Hits — Love, Loss, and the Long Road Home
For five decades, Carly Simon has been famous for saying the unsayable — about vanity, about marriage, about desire — in songs so elegant you almost missed how blunt they were. But the life behind the songs has been quieter, harder, and in many ways braver than the records suggest. Two marriages. A battle with…
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How Carly Simon Made Her Debut: The Story Behind “That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be”
In the spring of 1971, a twenty-seven-year-old woman with a stutter she had sung her way out of, a terror of the stage, and no particular plan to become a star released a debut album that opened with one of the bleakest hit singles of the decade. It was a song about marriage that made…
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The Untold Story of Carly Simon: The Vain Mystery, the Stage Fright, and the Voice That Outlasted Them All
She was born into publishing royalty, raised on classical music and civil rights marches, and she grew up to write one of the most dissected songs in pop history. Carly Simon spent five decades turning her private life into public art — her romances, her anxieties, her triumphs — and she did it all while…