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The haunting of Carly Simon: "I don’t feel that I’m living in James’s house. But there are constant memories"
Like most artists, Carly Simon is haunted. Throughout her storied, nearly five-decades-long career as one of our finest singer-songwriters, she has often grappled with the specters of memory, family and relationships in songs like “That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be,” You’re So Vain,” “It Happens Everyday,” and even a more obscure tune titled “Haunting.” Backed by a rising cascade of piano, oboe, harps, drums and a gothic choir, Simon sings—both as gently and as fiercely as a ghost itself—“There’s always someone haunting someone haunting someone.”
Such piercing poetry, candor and vulnerability have long been the trademarks of Simon’s music, and she brings these qualities to the page in her latest venture, the New York Times bestselling memoir "Boys in the Trees," published last month by Flatiron Books, along with an audiobook read by Simon (with an original scor
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The Worst of Times and Best of Times for Carly Simon
On November 19th, all of America will see on HBO a jubilant but ridiculously overdue act: Carly Simon inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll entré of Fame. She had been declared eligible a full 25 years ago; so when young singer Olivia Rodrigo belts out “You’re So Vain” the inclusion of the singer-songwriter who gave us that iconic, feminist, good-natured chiding of a conceited guy (self-proclaimed to be Warren Beatty) will cause many to think, “What? Hasn’t she been in the Hall of Fame for years already?”
But, however over-ripe, the honor is an honor. She’ll share it with two other midlife-plus singers: Pat Benatar and Dolly Parton, both of whom will be performing, while Carly will not be.
What? Hasn’t she been in the Hall of Fame for years already?
One reason she’ll be absent—aside from her long-held scen fright and aversion to flying—is the tragedy that befell her precisely a month before the televised induction. On October
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Jackie Onassis Explained to Carly Simon Why She Married Aristotle Onassis After JFK Assassination: “I had to make such a grand left turn so as not to be reminded of my former life”
Like Elton John’s new “Me,” Carly Simon’s “Touched by the Sun,” is a surprisingly fresh and candid memoir. It’s a great read I’d always wanted from the confessional singer-songwriter whose life has included a pageant of famous names. It’s almost like a coda to her autobiography, “Boys in the Trees,” which was pretty juicy and insightful. (And I hope she follows this volume with a couple more.) She’ll make a rare appearance Tuesday night at Barnes & Noble in Union Square to sign books.
Way back in the mid 1980s Carly showed me some prose writing she had done that was exceptional, and told me Jackie Onassis wanted to publish it at Doubleday. They’d become great friends on Martha’s Vineyard. That book didn&#