Carly Simon

Carly Joins Lilith Fair

elizabeth — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:54:55 +0000

It has just been announced that Carly Simon will be joining the line up for the 2010 Lilith Fair for three dates. Lilith Fair is the annual festival that celebrates women in music.

Carly will be performing:

July 30th: Boston, MA
July 31st: New York,NY
August 1st: Hartford, CT

Recently Carly contributed her voice on Arif Mardin ’s “All My Friends Are Here (Calls A Soft Voice)” and Trashcan Sinatras’ “In The Music (Should I pray).” Last year, Carly released her 24th studio album, “Never Been Gone.”

This year she re-released the DVD “Live From Martha’s Vineyard,” which features her 1987 performance that originally aired as an HBO special.

The DVD features:

Exclusive Interview with Carly Simon
Bonus Performance
Photo Scrapbook
Discography
On Screen Lyrics
Region All Encoding (NTCS)

Don’t forget to wish the songstress a very Happy Birthday on June 25th!

Keep checking back for the latest Carly Simon news.

Carly Simon drops another clue

michelle — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 20:56:11 +0000

Thirty-eight years ago, Carly Simon sang her hit “You’re So Vain,” in which she crooned over a mystery man who, “walked into the party… like he was walking onto a yacht.” Ever since, there has been three decades of speculation about who “he” is?

Some of the suspects: James Taylor (Simon’s new husband at the time), Warren Beatty and Mick Jagger, both former boyfriends. Now, there is a new dark horse in the running… David Geffen?

Apparently, Simon did a recent re-recording of the song in which she whispers a man’s first name during an instrumental portion of the song. That one word: “David.” It can be heard when the recording is played backwards. Very Beatlesque.

Geffen owned Asylum Records, Simon’s label back when the song was originally recorded, thus spawning the suspicious with this new clue and dispelling other theories that the name refers to David Bowie or David Cassidy.

Carly’s still not sayin’ for sure.

Carly Simon suing Starbucks

michelle — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:56:10 +0000

Carly Simon filed suit against the coffee giant alledging that its business decisions with respect to a joint venture with her 2008 release, This Kind of Love, adversely affected greater retail sales of the CD.

Starbucks made the CD available in stores in limited number, then slashed prices when it became readily available, negatively implying, says the Simon legal camp, that the CD could not be sold at full price.

The New York Times reported that her CD sold only 124,000 copies, and Simon blames the sluggishness on Starbucks’ decisions to shorten their in-store music program, which was a joint venture with Concord Music.

Starbucks issued a statement refuting her claims, arguing, “Unfortunately, sales continued to lag as the title received tepid response from music consumers. Other retailers faced the same fate with this CD.”

Simon has a new CD coming out late October entitled Never Been Gone, with will be followed by a European tour in early 2010. This release will have nothing to do with Starbucks.