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Jun 16, 2022 · Michael Putland/Getty Images. In her "Boys in the Trees" memoir, which was published in 2016, Carly Simon recalled the time she knew that she would marry James Taylor after seeing him on...
Nov 3, 2022 · Allison Rapp Published: November 3, 2022. Richard E. Aaron, Getty Images. Carly Simon had never even had a proper conversation with James Taylor when she decided that he was the man for...
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Nov 18, 2015 · Published on November 18, 2015 12:15PM EST. Photo: Martin Schoeller. Carly Simon and James Taylor reigned as folk-rock's power couple in the 1970s and early '80s. Now, more than 30 years...
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- “There We Are”
- “Devoted to You”
- “Her Town Too”
- “The Right Thing to Do”
- “Mockingbird”
- “You Make It Easy”
Taylor mentions Simon by name in this 1977 track singing, So though I never say that I love you, I love you / Darling I do / Carly, I do love you. Despite being released just a few years before the pair would divorce, it seems they were living in martial bliss at this time judging by how Taylor waxes poetic about their relationship.
One of their many duets, “Devoted To You” earned Simon and Taylor a spot on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart in 1978 and rose to No. 2 on the publication’s Adult Contemporary chart. Though the most well-known recording of this track was done by The Everly Brothers, Simon and Taylor make the line I’ll be yours through endless timeeven sweeter (or per...
Taylor and J.D. Souther wrote this song together as both of their marriages – to Simon and Linda Ronstadt respectively – were ending. The song tells the story of a woman who is left alone to fight small-town gossip on her own after a breakup. Though the pair have never confirmed who the song is about, lyrics like She gets the house and the garden /...
Simon once said that “The Right Thing To Do” was one of her “absolutely undisputed songs about James.” Written three months into their relationship, Simon is both romantic and realistic about where the pair are heading. And it used to be for a while / That the river flowed right to my door / Making me just a little too free / But now the river does...
Simon and Taylor recorded this Inez and Charlie Foxx duet for Simon’s Hotcakes album. The personal album dictated her feelings while being married to Taylor and pregnant with her first child. Based on the lullaby “Hush Little Baby,” “Mockingbird” turns the familiar refrain on its head, effectively making it a breakup anthem. Simon sings, And if tha...
Featured on Taylor’s album Gorilla, “You Make It Easy” sees Taylor in a bar somewhere escaping the “fuss and fight” he’s getting from his wife. While drowning his sorrows, he weighs the pros and cons of playing away from home. He sings, Now me and my wife / We’ve got the rest of our life / To make this thing right / But you and me will only see ton...
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Feb 14, 2020 · In conversation with her lifelong friend, Carinthia West, Carly Simon discusses her relationships with Warren Beatty, James Taylor, and Richard Koehler.
Feb 23, 2024 · The two singer-songwriters married in 1972, a year after their relationship began, and welcomed two children. They divorced in 1983 and no longer speak. Regardless, if you ask Simon, their love story had a fateful beginning.
