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Feb 26, 2010 · Published Feb. 25, 2010, 10:19 p.m. ET. Carly Simon Dave Allocca/Startraksphoto.com. The identity of the man who walked into the party like he was walking on to a yacht in Carly...
This is the title track to Taylor's fifth album, released in 1974. Walking Man didn't contain any hits, but Taylor still made the charts that year with a cover of " Mockingbird ," his duet with wife Carly Simon that hit #5 US. More songs from James Taylor. More songs about a mother or father.
Nov 18, 2015 · In an interview with USA TODAY, Carly Simon finally revealed the answer to the biggest mystery in music: Who is the subject of her 1972 ultimate musical-burn, You’re So Vain, a man who was so...
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New York-born Simon, who is being inducted into the Rock & Rock Hall of Fame this weekend, had been a professional musician for almost a decade and enjoyed a couple of minor hits prior to releasing You're So Vain on November 8, 1972. By early January it was #1 in the US and on its way to going to #1 around the world. The song, which Rolling Stone i...
The puzzle of who the song is about has been both deflected and fed by Simon from day one. According to Vanity Fair, Simon told an interviewer prior to the song coming out that You're So Vain was about "men" as opposed to "a man", and later admitted that certain aspects of the lyrics were based on certain men, but not the whole. But she has also pl...
Before we dive into some of these names one by one, here is an incomplete list of men who have been named as possible subjects for You're So Vain: record label head and producer David Geffen, musician James Taylor, actor Warren Beatty, guitar-maker Dan Armstrong, Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, actor Jack Nicholson, film director Bob Rafelson,...
So will we ever know the truth? It's hard to say. Simon seems to enjoy the game, hence the auction and the letters and the back-masked whispering, but she appears acutely aware that the mystique is a massive part of the song's allure. If she takes that away, will it take some of the shine off the song? For Simon, who's now in her late 70s, maybe it...
Nov 8, 2022 · Allison Rapp Published: November 8, 2022. Elektra. At some point in 1971, Carly Simon attended a party in Los Angeles that would change the trajectory of her career. That evening, a man she...
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Check out our album review of Artist's Walking Man on Rolling Stone.com. ... And “Daddy’s Baby,” on which Carly Simon sings backup, is a touching acoustic lullaby to their infant daughter ...
Nov 8, 2022 · Though the “walking onto a yacht” line originated from an adult party, the first man Simon sings about comes across as more of an adolescent – the unconcealed vanity, the references to “girls”, the dress-up quality of the hat and scarf.
