Posted on 02/26/2010 9:56:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
For years there has been debate about which of Carly Simon's ex-boyfriends could have inspired the hit song You're So Vain.
But while former lovers Mick Jagger, Kris Kristofferson, Cat Stevens and Warren Beatty were left wondering whether 'this song is about you', they have been proved wrong.
For the Seventies singer has finally revealed the real inspiration behind her hit track wasn't a boyfriend at all - it was openly gay record producer David Geffen.
Simon, 64, ended the 38 year guessing game by whispering the name backwards on a reworked version of the song for her new album Never Been Gone, out next week.
Previously Simon had always claimed the song was a 'composite' of people she knew.
In 1972 when she wrote the song billionaire Geffen was the head of her Elektra record label.
It is thought she was inspired to write the damning lyrics after Geffen put all his time and energy into promoting her rival, Joni Mitchell, over her.
In the hit Simon sings that the man walked into the party like he was walking on to a yacht.
The subject of her wrath jilted her before going to Saratoga to watch his horse naturally win.
Beatty is said to have been convinced he was the inspiration behind the song.
Other suspects included Jagger, who sang backing vocals for the original song, and James Taylor, the American songwriter to whom Simon was married between 1972 and 1983.
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He was her producer. He had her under contract early in her career. Besides he was in the closet back then. Closet gays tend to be quite promiscuous with the “ladies”. No attachments because everyone knows they aren’t going to stick around and no one will question them hanging out with the guys since they are so busy bedding the females.
I always forget Joni wrote that.
It used to be one of my favorites.
Next they’ll tell us who really killed JFK and then the baby boomers can all coast into their golden years with all mysteries solved. (*Except for that birth certifcate thingy and oh yeah, who killed Vince Foster?)
Joni Mitchell wrote “Free Man in Paris” which was about David Geffen.
I think it’s just a marketing ploy. Probably developed by Geffen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrEqIpi6sg
Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now (Live, 1970)
That one was a favorite too.
I have 5 or 6 Joni Mitchell albums, but I’ve been drifting over to country music for the last few years now, so I don’t listen to them anymore. I liked her older stuff the best.
It could well have been a “romance” too. In the 70s gay men frequently had a girl. They preferred men but definitely had experiences with girls too, including marriage, fooling everyone but themselves.
When Joe Jackson’s anthem (”Stepping Out”) hit the airwaves, MANY marriages broke up when Daddy put on his pastel polo shirt, tied the matching sweater around his neck, and headed for Santa Monica Boulevard...
ROFL!!
This Carly Simon - Coming Around Again (Live) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_xqI8NSlkA is terrific.
Ha!
Ugh... I can’t believe I’ve read this thread... very sad. The end is near.
Scary huh?
Yep. Considering ...
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