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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Here’s her live version from Martha’s Vineyard ( where she currently lives and is associated with a store in Vineyard Haven named Midnight Farm, ) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQZmCJUSC6g
She sang “Nobody Does it Better” for me. Although I was 11 at the time song came out.
Geffen didn’t come out until later, he dated his share of “beards” back then.
Ah, apparently not then, huh?
"You had one eye on the mirror as you watched yourself "GO BY".
Reminds me of the time my young daughter was listening to, "Sloopy" and after the line, "Cause Sloopy girl, you know I'm in love with you," she said, "He can't love her very much, he keeps calling her "stupid".
Onward to the spy who loved me...
Ah. But wouldn’t Carly know the truth?
Well she was still quite naive back then.
Wow, she’s been around. Like a cheerleader who’s been with the whole football team.
Oh, nevermind. I just got it. Duh.
Oh great, now this song is going to be an earworm for the rest of the day.
W. Mark Felt?
Thus making it a self-fulfilling proclamation.
Hahaha. I guess ‘the wife of a close friend’ would be a good beard and the close friend wouldn’t mind either.
So, how does a gay guy fit this?:
“You had me several years ago
When I was still quite naive
Well, you said that we made such a pretty pair
And that you would never leave”
I recall years ago a guy paid 10,000 at auction for Carly to tell him. He was made to sign a confidentiality form.
You probably thought that song was about you.
Didn’t you?
Didn’t you?
Didn’t you?
Former “lovers” list makes her sound like a special kind of slut
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