Posted on 02/26/2010 2:35:34 PM PST by pissant
SINGER CARLY SIMON has finally ended a 38-year guessing game - by naming the subject of hit You're So Vain.
The catty lyrics were believed to be aimed at an ex-boyfriend such as MICK JAGGER, CAT STEVENS, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON or WARREN BEATTY.
But now the target has been revealed as gay producer DAVID GEFFEN, at the time head of Carly's Elektra record label.
And rather than being angry about a failed relationship, Carly is thought to have resented the effort he put into promoting rival JONI MITCHELL.
Carly, 64, had always claimed in public that the song was a "composite" of people she knew.
But she solved the riddle by whispering David's name BACKWARDS in a reworked version of the 1972 song for her new album Never Been Gone, out next week.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
What a relief! I’ll finally get my first good night’s sheep after 39-years.
She’s so vain...I’ll bet she thinks we all give a sh*t...don’t she?
Geffen is openly gay now. I don’t know if he was then.
I thought it was Bad to the Bone
He should have stayed stuffed in the closet
Pretty God-awful song that was.
Unfortunately it’s her best one.
Was listening to the song just yesterday,hey ,you remember that album cover;)
Yeah, musta been a bit chilly out
Nova Scotia' airport must've been pretty busy with celebrity Lear Jets up there to watch the total eclipse of the sun.
Album was called “No Secrets”.
Indeed Carley, No Secrets about your TaTas....
Joni Mitchell has loads more talent. Good call on Geffen’s part.
Don’t people take secrets to their graves anymore?
The lyrics certainly never led me to think the song was about a male homosexual. I don’t buy her story, not that it matters much one way or the other.
“And all the girls dreamed that they’d be your partner
They’d be your partner, and...
“You had me several years ago when I was still quite naive
......
“Well you’re where you should be all the time
And when you’re not you’re with
Some underworld spy or the wife of a close friend
Wife of a close friend, and...”
First it was Sweet Caroline being about Neal Diamond’s infatuation about a 5 year old girl and now this...
She wrote Free Man In Paris about him. Who would have thought he rated two songs, much less one?
Did Geffen actually go to Saratoga? I mean, hardly anyone except us horse nuts go to Saratoga, so that for me pins it right there.
Never mind that Geffen wasn’t a famous guy then.
Snip: Her friendships with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Bill and Hillary Clinton, William and Rose Styron, and Mike Nichols and Diane Sawyer—all members of her natural social milieu—thrust her well beyond the rock world she’d once conquered and continued to inhabit.
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