The 70’s were a period when most of the musicians that marked the rock and roll history emerged on the music scene. Among them was Carly Simon, who wrote the everlasting hit You’re So Vain.
Simon was born as the third daughter of Richard Simon, the co-founder of the Simon & Schuster publishing company, on June 25, 1945, in New York City. Her parents were hoping for a son whom they would name Carl, and when Simon was born, “they simply added a y to the word, like an accusing chromosome: Carly,” the famous musician once said.https://www.instagram.com/p/BvjjB0-nv0G
She and her family lived in their house in Greenwich Village, New York, but young Simon loved spending most of her time at the estate in Stamford, Connecticut. During that time, she became close to baseball player Jackie Robinson who was a very good friend of the family. Jackie would take her to his games and fans even considered her the team’s mascot.
“Jackie even taught me how to bat lefty, though it never took”, Simon wrote in her memoir Boys in the Trees, published in 2015. “He always had the cutest look around the side of his mouth, as if he were thinking about what he was about to say before he said it.”
Simon showed interest in music and soon after, she and her sister Lucy started performing together in Greenwich Village after they learned how to play the guitar by themselves. The duo was named The Simon Sisters and released three albums.
Once she started a solo career, Carly’s songs reached top numbers on the charts. Her single That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be, which is part of her debut album Carly Simon released in 1971, was No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 list. Some of her most famous songs are Anticipation, Haven’t Got Time for the Pain, You Belong to Me, Coming Around Again, Mockingbird, Nobody Does It Better from the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, and Jesse.
