Carly Simon has finally revealed who inspired her hit song “You’re So Vain”.
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She says she had a series of sexual encounters with a family friend when she was just 7 years old.
Still flashing her mile-wide, light-up-the-room, smile, music icon Carly Simon, age 70, sat down with People magazine and USA Today for interviews prior to the release of her new book, a memoir, Boys in the Trees. “It changed my view about sex for a long time”. The singer revealed that at the time, she “was devastated because I thought I was in a romance, which I think happens to a lot of girls”.
“Your libido overpowers everything! ‘” she said. “I don’t know if I’ll do it”. “I wanted to keep it quiet because I wanted to keep it going”, the “You’re So Vain” singer said. He certainly thought it was about him – he called me and said thanks for the song…
Simon was married to singer/songwriter James Taylor from 1972-1983, and has had relationships with the likes of Mick Jagger, Jack Nicholson and Kris Kristofferson. She is now currently involved with Richard Koehler, a surgeon at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. She then married poet Jim Hart, and the couple spent 20 years together before divorcing in 2007.
He kept the inspiration of the second verse of Great Big Sea’s song “Ordinary Day” secret for years.
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Also last week, the iconic singer formally revealed what many of us had already suspected for years. Simon has revealed, again, that the song is about three different people, and that only the second verse is about Warren Beatty. She said the other verses are about men who don’t know they are in the song and she won’t reveal their names.
