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 ...
I still wonder who Phil Collins is talking about in his song, “In The Air Tonight.”
A mystery from the sixties era second only to “Deep Throat”.
Hate crime!
“I still wonder who Phil Collins is talking about in his song, “In The Air Tonight.””
Not too long ago a radio station here aired a show on Collins and apparently he had revealed that the song was about his former wife who had done him wrong.
I use to raise goats but never had a good night's sheep..just one ewe for the wool...:O)
Whew! Now I can focus all my concentration on “Paul is dead”.
I think very few people were experiencing any anticipation about this. /rimshot
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