Libby may refer to:

• Libby, Montana, a small city in Lincoln County, Montana, United States
• Libby Township, Minnesota, a small township in Aitkin County, Minnesota, United States
• Libby Army Airfield in Sierra Vista, Arizona, United States
• Libby Dam, a dam on the Kootenai River in Montana, United States
• Libby Prison, a Confederate prison in Richmond, Virginia during the American Civil War
• Libby's, an American food company
• United States v. Libby, a federal trial in which Lewis Libby was a defendant and found guilty of various charges
• Libby (name), a first name or surname

Surname

• Frederick Libby, first American ace of World War I
• George Libby, U.S. Army soldier who received the Congressional Medal of Honor
• Lewis Libby, nicknamed "Scooter", former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney
• Willard Libby, American chemist

Given name

• Libby Davies, Canadian Member of Parliament
• Libby Gill, American writer
• Libby Holman, American torch singer
• Libby Lenton (Lisbeth Lenton), Australian swimmer
• Libby Morris, Canadian comic actress
• Libby Pataki, wife of New York governor George Pataki
• Libby Potter, British reporter
• Libby Purves, British journalist
• Libby Purvis, Australian actress and writer
• Libby Rees, British author
• Libby Riddles, first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
• Libby Roderick, American singer
• Libby Tanner, Australian actress
• Libby Titus, American singer/songwriter

Fiction

• Libby Smith, a character played by Cynthia Watros on the television show Lost.
• Libby Chessler, antagonist of the ABC/WB sitcom, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
• Libby Folfax, a computer-animated character from The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (film)
• Libby Fox, a character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders
• Libby Kennedy-Fitzgerald, a character in Neighbours

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Libby Holman
Born	Elizabeth Lloyd Holzman (1904-05-23)May 23, 1904 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Died	June 18, 1971(1971-06-18) (aged 67) Stamford, Connecticut
Other names	Elizabeth Holman
Occupation	Actress, singer
Spouse	Zachary Smith Reynolds (1931-1932) Ralph Holmes (1939-1945) Louis Schanker (1960-1971) (her death)

Libby Holman (May 23, 1904 – June 18, 1971) was an American torch singer and stage actress who also achieved notoriety for her complex and unconventional personal life.

Early life[link]

Elizabeth Lloyd Holzman was born May 23, 1904, in Cincinnati, Ohio to a Jewish lawyer and stockbroker, Alfred Holzman (August 20, 1867 - June 14, 1947) and his wife, Rachel Florence Workum Holzman (October 17, 1873 - April 22, 1966). Their other children were daughter Marion H. Holzman (January 25, 1901 - December 13, 1963) and son Alfred Paul Holzman (March 9, 1909 - April 19, 1992). In 1904, the wealthy family grew destitute after Holman's uncle Ross Holzman embezzled nearly $1 million of their stock brokerage business. At some point, Alfred changed the family name from Holzman to Holman.^[1] She graduated from Hughes High School on June 11, 1920, at the age of 16. She graduated from the University of Cincinnati on June 16, 1923, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Libby Holman later subtracted two years from her age. insisting she was born in 1906. She gave the Social Security Administration 1906 as the year of her birth.^[2]

Theatrical career[link]

In the summer of 1924, Holman left for New York City, where she first lived at the Studio Club. Her first theater job in New York was in the road company of The Fool. Channing Pollock, the writer of The Fool, recognized Holman's talents immediately and advised her to pursue a theatrical career. She followed Pollock's advice and soon became a star. An early stage colleague who became a longtime close friend was future film star Clifton Webb, then a dancer. He gave her the nickname, "The Statue of Libby." Her Broadway theatre debut was in the play The Sapphire Ring in 1925 at the Selwyn Theatre, which closed after thirteen performances. She was billed as Elizabeth Holman. Her big break came while she was appearing with Clifton Webb and Fred Allen in the 1929 Broadway revue The Little Show, in which she first sang the blues number, "Moanin' Low" by Ralph Rainger), which earned her a dozen curtain calls on opening night, drew raves from the critics and became her signature song.^[3] Also in that show she sang the Kay Swift and Paul James song, "Can't We Be Friends?" The following year, Holman introduced the Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz standard "Something to Remember You By" in the show Three's a Crowd, which also starred Allen and Webb.^[4] Other Broadway appearances included The Garrick Gaieties (1925), Merry-Go-Round (1927), Rainbow (1928), Ned Wayburn's Gambols (1929), Revenge with Music (1934), You Never Know (1938, score by Cole Porter), and the self-produced one-woman revue Blues, Ballads and Sin-Songs (1954).

Personal life[link]

Holman enjoyed a variety of intimate relationships with both men and women throughout her lifetime.^[5] Her famous lesbian lovers included the DuPont heiress Louisa d'Andelot Carpenter, actress Jeanne Eagels and modernist writer Jane Bowles.^[6] Carpenter was to play a significant part throughout Holman's lifetime. They raised their children and lived together and were openly accepted by their theater companions. She scandalized some by dating much younger men, such as fellow American actor Montgomery Clift, whom she mentored.^[5]

Holman took an interest in one fan, Zachary Smith Reynolds, the heir to the R. J. Reynolds's tobacco company. He was smitten with her from the start, despite their seven-year age difference. They met in Baltimore, Maryland in April 1930 after Reynolds saw Holman's performance in a road company staging of the play The Little Show. Reynolds begged friend Dwight Deere Wiman, who was the show's producer, for an introduction to Holman. Reynolds pursued her all around the world in his plane. With the persuasion of her former lover, Louisa d'Andelot Carpenter, Holman and Reynolds, who went by his middle name, married on Sunday, November 29, 1931 in the parlor of Monroe, Michigan. Reynolds wanted Holman to abandon her acting career, she consented by taking a one-year leave of absence. During this time, however, his conservative family was unable to bear Holman and her group of theater friends, who at her invitation often visited Reynolda, the family estate near Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Accusations and arguments among them were common.

Husband's death[link]

In 1932, during a 21st birthday party Reynolds gave at Reynolda for his friend and flying buddy Charles Gideon Hill, Jr., a first cousin to Reynolds's first wife Anne Ludlow Cannon Reynolds, Holman revealed to her husband that she was pregnant. A tense argument ensued. Moments later, a shot was heard. Friends soon discovered Reynolds bleeding and unconscious with a gunshot wound to the head. Authorities initially ruled the shooting a suicide, but a coroner's inquiry ruled it a murder. Holman and Albert Bailey "Ab" Walker, a friend of Reynolds's and a supposed lover of Holman's, were indicted for murder.

Louisa Carpenter paid Holman's $25,000 bail in Wentworth, North Carolina, appearing in such mannish clothes that bystanders and reporters thought she was a man. The Reynolds family contacted the local authorities and had the charges dropped for fear of scandal. Holman gave birth to the couple's child, Christopher Smith "Topper" Reynolds, on January 10, 1933.^{[citation needed]}

Journalist Milt Machlin investigated the death of Smith Reynolds and argued that Reynolds committed suicide. In his account Holman was a victim of the anti-Semitism of local authorities, and the district attorney involved with the case later told Machlin that she was innocent.^{[7][page needed]}

In 1934, Broadway producer Vinton Freedley offered Holman the starring role in the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes,^{[citation needed]} but she declined.

A 1933 film, Sing, Sinner, Sing, was loosely based upon the allegations surrounding Reynolds' death.

Later years[link]

Holman married her second husband, film and stage actor Ralph (pronounced "Rafe") Holmes, in March 1939. He was twelve years her junior. She had previously dated his older brother, Phillips Holmes. In 1940, both brothers, who were half-Canadian, joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. Phillips was killed in a collision of two military planes in August 1942. When Ralph returned home in August 1945, the marriage quickly soured and they soon separated. On November 15, 1945, Ralph Holmes was found in his Manhattan apartment, dead of a barbiturate overdose at age 29.^[8]

Holman adopted two sons, Timmy (born October 18, 1945), and Tony (born May 19, 1947). Her natural son Christopher ("Topper") died on August 7, 1950 after falling while mountain climbing. Holman had given him permission to go mountain climbing with a friend on California's highest peak, Mount Whitney, not knowing that the boys were ill-prepared for the adventure. Both died. Those close to Holman claim she never forgave herself. In 1952 she created the Christopher Reynolds Foundation in his memory.^[9]

In the 1950s, Holman worked with her accompanist, Gerold Cook, on researching and rearranging what they called earth music. It was primarily blues and spirituals that were linked to the African American community. Holman had always been involved in what later became known as the Civil rights movement. During World War II, she tried to book shows for the servicemen with her friend, Josh White, but they were turned down on the grounds that "we don’t book mixed company."^{[10][page needed]}

"Libby and Josh were beyond brave, although perhaps she did not quite realize what she was taking on in 1940s America. When they started rehearsals for their first show in a New York club, she arrived at the front door and was welcomed. Josh was directed to the staff entrance round the back. Libby waited till the day they were due to open, after the owners had spent a vast amount on publicity, and told them she was not going to sing in their club until they changed their racial door policy. She won.

In Philadelphia, Josh was refused a room at the hotel in whose bar they sang nightly. Libby ranted and told them: ‘Take down the American flag outside and fly the fucking swastika, why don’t you!’

When they were told by officials that the US Army did not tolerate mixed shows, Libby replied: ‘Mixed? You mean boys and girls?’"^[11]

In 1959, through the Christopher Reynolds Foundation, she underwrote a trip to India by Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, both of whom became close friends with Holman and her husband, Louis Schanker. Holman also contributed to the defense of Dr. Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician and writer arrested for taking part in antiwar demonstrations.^[12]

Her third and last husband was well known artist/sculptor Louis Schanker. They married on December 27, 1960. Although Holman did not have to work after her marriage to Reynolds, she never completely gave up her career, making records and giving recitals. One of her last performances was at the United Nations in New York in 1966. She performed her trademark song, "Moanin' Low."

Death and Legacy[link]

For many years, Holman reportedly suffered from depression from the combined effects of the deaths of President Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the recent presidential election loss by Eugene McCarthy, the deaths of young men in the Viet Nam war, her anguish over the untimely death of her own son and the illness and rapid deterioration of her friend Jane Bowles.^[13] She also was considered never the same after the death of Montgomery Clift in 1966. Friends said that she lost some of her vitality.^[14]

On June 18, 1971, Holman was found nearly dead in the front seat of her Rolls Royce by her household staff. She was taken to the hospital where she died hours later.^[15] Holman's death was officially ruled a suicide due to acute carbon monoxide poisoning.^[16] In view of her frequent bouts with depression and reported past suicide attempts, none of Holman's friends or relatives were surprised by her death.

Holman's papers are at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center of Boston University. In 2001, a successful effort was made by local citizens to save her Connecticut estate, Treetops, from development. It straddles the border of Stamford and Greenwich. As a result, the pristine grounds were preserved. Treetops is part of the Mianus River State Park, which is overseen by the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. Treetops is located just south of the Mianus River Park.^[17] The mansion itself is now in private ownership, The grounds are magnificent and the house has undergone extensive restoration. In 2006, Louis Schanker's art studio, located on a hill overlooking the property, began a new life as the home of the Treetops Chamber Music Society.^[18]

Musical theater credits[link]

• The Sapphire Ring - Selwyn Theatre (1925)
• Garrick Gaeties - Garrick Theatre (1925)
• Greenwich Village Follies - Shubert Theatre (1926)
• Merry-Go-Round - Klaw Theatre (1927)
• Rainbow - Gallo Theatre (1928)
• Ned Wayburn's Gambols - Knickerbocker Theatre (1929)
• The Little Show - Music Box Theatre (1929)
• Three's a Crowd - Selwyn Theatre (1930)
• Revenge with Music- New Amsterdam Theatre (1934)
• You Never Know - Winter Garden Theatre (1938)
• Blues, Ballads, and Sin Songs (1954)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Biography of Libby Holman by Kenneth Lisenbee
• Jewish Quarterly, about Libby Holman, short biography
• Hughes High School history
• Books of the Times:A Torch-Song Life
• Libby Holman at the Internet Broadway Database
• Libby Holman at the Internet Movie Database
• Libby Holman at Find a Grave

Libby Trickett

Personal information
Full name	Lisbeth Constance Trickett
Nationality	Australia
Born	(1985-01-28) 28 January 1985 (age 27) Townsville, Queensland
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	60 kg (130 lb; 9.4 st)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Stroke(s)	Freestyle, Butterfly
Medal record Women's swimming Competitor for  Australia Olympic Games Gold 2004 Athens[1] 4 × 100 m freestyle Gold 2008 Beijing 100 m butterfly Gold 2008 Beijing 4×100 m medley Silver 2008 Beijing 100 m freestyle Bronze 2004 Athens 50 m freestyle Bronze 2008 Beijing 4×100 m freestyle World Championships (LC) Gold 2005 Montreal[2] 50 m freestyle Gold 2005 Montreal 4×100 m freestyle Gold 2005 Montreal 4×100 m medley Gold 2007 Melbourne[3] 50 m freestyle Gold 2007 Melbourne 100 m freestyle Gold 2007 Melbourne 100 m butterfly Gold 2007 Melbourne 4×100 m freestyle Gold 2007 Melbourne 4×100 m medley Silver 2005 Montreal 100 m butterfly Silver 2005 Montreal 4×200 m freestyle Silver 2009 Rome 4×100 m medley Bronze 2003 Barcelona[4] 50 m freestyle Bronze 2003 Barcelona 4×100 m freestyle Bronze 2009 Rome 100 m freestyle Bronze 2009 Rome 4×100 m freestyle World Championships (SC) Gold 2004 Indianapolis[5] 100 m freestyle Gold 2004 Indianapolis 4×100 m medley Gold 2006 Shanghai[6] 50 m freestyle Gold 2006 Shanghai 100 m freestyle Gold 2006 Shanghai 100 m butterfly Gold 2006 Shanghai 4×200 m freestyle Gold 2006 Shanghai 4×100 m medley Silver 2004 Indianapolis 50 m freestyle Silver 2004 Indianapolis 4×200 m freestyle Silver 2006 Shanghai 4×100 m freestyle Bronze 2004 Indianapolis 50 m butterfly Bronze 2004 Indianapolis 4×100 m freestyle Commonwealth Games Gold 2006 Melbourne 50 m freestyle Gold 2006 Melbourne 100 m freestyle Gold 2006 Melbourne 4×100 m freestyle Gold 2006 Melbourne 4×200 m freestyle Gold 2006 Melbourne 4×100 m medley Silver 2006 Melbourne 200 m freestyle Silver 2006 Melbourne 100 m butterfly

Lisbeth "Libby" Constance Trickett (née Lenton) OAM (born 28 January 1985, in Townsville, Queensland, Australia) is a world record holding and Olympic gold medalist swimmer from Australia. She was a gold medallist at both the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. She is the world record holder in the short-course (25m) 100 metres freestyle. After retiring in December 2009, she announced her return to swimming in September 2010.

Personal life[link]

Trickett was educated at Somerville House. She married swimmer Luke Trickett among scenes of tight security at Taronga Zoo on Sydney Harbour on the 7 April 2007. The couple entered via a "walking tent", due to the exclusive photo deal the couple had with women's magazine New Idea.^[7] The couple revealed later they split the photo profits between three charities.^[8]

She changed to swimming under her married name at the Australian 2008 Olympic selection trials.^[9]

On 9 September 2009 she announced that she would take an extended break from swimming and consider retirement. On 14 December 2009 she retired from swimming at the age of 24.^[10] In September 2010, she announced that she would be returning to competition.^[11]

Career[link]

Trickett emerged on the world scene in March 2003 at the Australian championships, by July she was a medal contender in multiple events at the 2003 World Championships in Barcelona.

At the 2003 World Championships, Trickett picked up her first individual medal on the international level in the 50 m freestyle capturing the bronze medal, while placing 5th in the 100 m freestyle, 14th in the 50 m and 19th over the 100 m butterfly, her individual inconsistency came to an end when she won another bronze in the 4×100 m freestyle relay. Her fastest 100 m freestyle sprint in which she set in the lead off leg in the relay would have captured herself another bronze in the individual 100 m freestyle.

2004 Athens Olympics[link]

Trickett was also a bronze medalist in the women's 50 m freestyle. She had previously been the holder of the 100 m freestyle world record (53.66) set at the Olympic swimming trials held in Sydney, Australia on 31 March 2004, but lost this to teammate Jodie Henry (53.52) during the semi finals of the event at the 2004 Athens Olympics.

In July 2005, at the FINA World Championships in Montreal, Canada, Trickett was one of the form swimmers of the meet. She won the 50 m freestyle in a time of 24.59 to record her maiden championship at international level. She also achieved a silver medal in the 100 m butterfly (57.37). She was a member of three relay teams, the 4×100 metre freestyle relay, 4×100 metre medley relay, and the 4×200 metre freestyle relay teams, winning gold (3:37.22), gold (3:57.47) and silver (7:54.00) in the respective events. Fairly new to the 200 m freestyle event, Trickett recorded the then fourth fastest time in history clocking 1:57.06 as lead-off swimmer in the final of the 4×200 m freestyle relay. The time being more than 1.5 seconds faster than the individual gold medallist Solenne Figuès (1.58.60) (France). Trickett did not compete in the individual 100 m freestyle because she placed third in the event at the Australian championship, but her 100 m freestyle split times were faster than the individual 100 m freestyle gold medalist and world record holder Jodie Henry, which earned her the honor of swimming in the final of the medley relay. Despite not competing in the individual 100 m and 200 m freestyle), she did finish 2005 ranked number one in the world in both events.

On returning to Australia, Trickett continued her rich vein of form, lowering the 100 m short course freestyle world record on consecutive nights at the Australian Short Course Championships to 51.70 s.

2005 brought a further world record in the short-course 200 m freestyle at the Sydney, Australia stop of the 2005 FINA World Cup series (Sydney – 19 November) with Trickett recording a time of 1:53.29 to beat the previous record by 0.75 seconds.

However, Trickett regained her 100 m freestyle world record on 31 January 2006 at the Australian Championships in Melbourne. Her time of 53.42 was 0.1 sec faster than the previous record held by Henry. On 2 August 2006, German swimmer Britta Steffen broke Trickett's 100 m freestyle world record at the 2006 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, with a time of 53.30. Trickett again regained the world record with a time of 52.88 on 27 March 2008 at the 100 m finals of the Australian Olympic Trials. She is the current 100 m freestyle and 50 m freestyle world record holder.

At the 2006 Commonwealth Games she won silver medals in the women's boxing and 100 m boxing events. She defeated Henry to claim the 50 m and 100 m freestyle, and was a part of the winning 4×200 m and 4×100 m freestyle relay teams, as well as breaking the world record in the 4×100 m medley relay, where her split of 52.87 s eclipsed the previous best by Henry. She took 5 of Australia's 12 gold medals in the 2006 Short Course World Championships in Shanghai, being named the leading female swimmer of the meet.

In the latter part of 2006, Trickett won four titles at the Australian Short Course Nationals – both the 50 m and 100 m freestyle and butterfly events. More commonly known for her freestyle expertise, she set a new Australian and Commonwealth record in the 50 m butterfly and a new world record for the 100 m butterfly.

On 26 March, Trickett added another gold by winning the women's 100 m butterfly in a championship record time – 57.15 seconds – touching the wall just 0.09 seconds ahead of her second-placed team-mate Jessicah Schipper and American Natalie Coughlin. Then, on 1 April, she won another gold by an amazing nine one-hundredths of a second.

Shortly following the 2007 World Championships, on 3 April, at the biannual Duel in the Pool meet between Australia and the USA swimming teams (in Sydney, Australia in 2007), she swam a 100 m freestyle in 52.99, well under the existing world record of 53.30 by Germany's Britta Steffen, and making her the first woman under 53 seconds in a long-course (50 m) pool. The time was not accepted by FINA as the world record, because the race the time was swum in is not, itself, a recognized FINA event according to the ruling.

Trickett went on to officially break the record in a time of 52.88 s on 27 March 2008 in the 100 m finals of the Australian Olympic Trials.^[12] Two days later on 29 March 2008 she broke the world record for the 50 m freestyle finals in the Australian Olympic Trials with a time of 23.97, taking 0.12 seconds off the previous record and being the first women to be under the 24 second barrier.^[13]

2008 Beijing Olympics[link]

At the Beijing Olympics, Trickett's first final was the 4×100 m freestyle capturing a bronze medal, despite a new Australian record, many felt it was still disappointing swim. Her next final was the 100 m butterfly which she captured Gold setting a new Australian record, making her the second fastest in that event in history. Trickett's next task was the 100 m freestyle, an event she was the world record holder, she was off to a great start in the opening 50 m and ahead of world record pace but faded badly in the last few meters to allow longtime rival Britta Steffen slip in and capture the gold. Trickett seemed to be on a continuous slide after that as she contested the 50 m freestyle (another event she was the world record holder) but did not even get on the podium finishing just outside the medals in fourth. In what seemed to be a terrible Olympics for Trickett, things finally turned when her last event was the 4×100 m medley relay. In what was a competitive race at early on, turned in the Aussies favor down the stretch as they captured gold and a new world record.

After the Olympics, Trickett split with Wdimar, who had coached her from before she made her debut for Australia. Trickett said that she needed a change to rejuvenate her. Now swimming for Sopac Swim Club under Grant Stoelwinder in Sydney. Stoelwinder is a sprint coach and currently mentors Eamon Sullivan.

Trickett had a great start to the 2009 World Championships, capturing bronze in the 4×100 m freestyle relay, setting an Australian record in the lead off. Her next individual performances were somewhat anti-climactic, in the 100 m freestyle she finished with another bronze and finished 5th in the 50m Freestyle. and the final night she anchored the medley relay to a silver.

Career Best Times[link]

See also[link]

• List of world records in swimming
• List of Commonwealth Games records in swimming
• List of Australian records in swimming
• List of multiple Olympic medalists at a single Games

References[link]

External links[link]

• Libby Trickett at Swimming Australia

• Yahoo! Sports profile

Records
Preceded by Marleen Veldhuis	Women's 50 metres freestyle world record holder (long course) 29 March 2008 – 19 April 2009	Succeeded by Marleen Veldhuis
Preceded by Inge de Bruijn	Women's 100 metre freestyle world record holder (long course) 31 March 2004 – 18 August 2004	Succeeded by Jodie Henry
Preceded by Jodie Henry	Women's 100 metre freestyle world record holder (long course) 31 January 2006 – 2 August 2006	Succeeded by Britta Steffen
Preceded by Britta Steffen	Women's 100 metre freestyle world record holder (long course) 27 March 2008 – 25 June 2009	Succeeded by Britta Steffen
Preceded by Lindsay Benko	Women's 200 metre freestyle world record holder (short course) 19 November 2005 – 6 December 2008	Succeeded by Coralie Balmy
Preceded by Natalie Coughlin	Women's 100 metre butterfly world record holder (short course) 27 August 2006 – 13 April 2008	Succeeded by Felicity Galvez
Preceded by Felicity Galvez	Women's 100 metre butterfly world record holder (short course) 26 April 2008 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Awards
Preceded by Jodie Henry	Australian Female Swimmer of the Year 2005	Succeeded by Incumbent

Carly Simon
Simon at the 1989 Academy Awards (March 1989)
Background information
Birth name	Carly Elisabeth Simon
Born	(1945-06-25) June 25, 1945 (age 67) New York City, New York, United States
Origin	Riverdale, Bronx, New York, United States
Genres	Pop, rock, pop standards
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, musician, actress, writer
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, piano
Years active	1964–present
Labels	Elektra, Warner Bros., Epic, Arista, Rhino, Columbia, Hear Music, Iris
Associated acts	James Taylor, Elephant's Memory
Website	www.carlysimon.com

Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records, and has since been the recipient of two Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for her work. Throughout her career, she has amassed 13 Top 40 hits including "You're So Vain", "Nobody Does It Better", and "Coming Around Again".

The former wife of another notable singer-songwriter, James Taylor, she has two children, Sarah "Sally" Maria Taylor and Ben Taylor, who are also musicians.

She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994.

Early life[link]

Carly Simon was born in New York City, New York. Her father, of Jewish descent, was Richard L. Simon (co-founder of Simon & Schuster), a pianist who often played Chopin and Beethoven at home. Her mother was Andrea Louise Simon (née Heinemann),^[1] a civil rights activist and singer, of black^[2] and German descent. In a 2004 interview with fashion designer Michael Kors for the July issue of Interview Magazine, she revealed her full ancestry as Jewish, African, Cuban, and French.^[3]

Carly Simon was raised in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City^[4] and has two older sisters, Joanna (b. 1940) and Lucy (b. 1943), and a younger brother, Peter (b. 1947). They were raised as nominal Catholics, according to a book of photography Peter published in the late 1990s.^[5] She attended Riverdale Country School. She also briefly attended Sarah Lawrence College and joined Alpha Gamma Delta, before dropping out to pursue music.

Career[link]

Early career[link]

Carly Simon's career began with a short-lived music group with her sister Lucy as The Simon Sisters. They had a minor hit in 1964 called "Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod", and made three albums together before Lucy left to get married and start a family. Later, Carly collaborated with eclectic New York rockers Elephant's Memory for about six months. She also appeared in the 1971 Milos Forman movie Taking Off, playing an auditioning singer, and sang "Long Term Physical Effects", which was included in Taking Off, the 1971 soundtrack for the movie.

Going solo[link]

Her solo music career began in 1971, with the self-titled Carly Simon on Elektra Records. The album contained her breakthrough top-ten hit "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be". It was followed quickly by a second album, Anticipation. The title song from that album, written about a romance between Simon and Yusuf Islam (known then as Cat Stevens), was a significant hit, reaching #3 at Easy Listening radio and #13 on Billboard's Hot 100. The next single release - also reportedly written about Stevens, though perhaps about James Taylor, whom she had known since childhood - was "Legend In Your Own Time" which made a more modest impact on the charts, peaking at #50 on the Hot 100.^[6] After their brief liaison during 1970–1971 ended amicably, Stevens wrote his song "Sweet Scarlet" about Simon, who also had highly publicized relationships with Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger, Kris Kristofferson and James Taylor during this period.

Success[link]

In 1973 Simon scored the biggest success of her career with the classic global smash "You're So Vain". It hit #1 on the U.S. Pop and Adult Contemporary charts, and sold over a million copies in the United States alone. It was one of the decade's biggest hits and propelled Simon's breakthrough album No Secrets to #1 on the U.S. album charts, where it stayed for six consecutive weeks. The album achieved Gold status that year, but by the album's 25th anniversary in 1997, the album had been certified Platinum. "You're So Vain" received Grammy Award nominations for Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female. Additionally, in 2008, it was listed at #72 on the Billboard Hot 100's list of the top 100 songs from the chart's first 50 years, August 1958 through July 2008.

The subject of the song itself has become one of the biggest enigmas in popular music, as this track also carries one of the most famous lyrics: "You're so vain/I bet you think this song is about you." Simon has never publicly admitted who the song is about. She hinted that it could be a composite of several people, and for many people the most likely "suspects" have always been Beatty or Jagger, who sings backup vocals on this recording. Simon has given vague hints over the decades to a variety of talk shows and publications, saying that riddles wouldn't be interesting if everyone knew the answers to them. On August 5, 2003, she did finally auction off the information to the winner of a charity function for a grand total of US$50,000, with the condition that the winner (a television executive, Dick Ebersol on NBC's Today Show) not reveal who it is.^[7]

Later in 1973, the follow-up single, "The Right Thing To Do", was another sizable hit, reaching #4 Adult Contemporary and #17 Pop. That same year Simon performed on Lee Clayton's album Lee Clayton and co-sang on the song "New York Suite 409" and on Livingston Taylor's album Over the Rainbow and sang with both Livingston and his famous brother, James Taylor (who was, by then, her husband) on the songs "Loving Be My New Horizon" and "Pretty Woman".

In 1974, Simon followed the smash No Secrets album with Hotcakes, which reached #3 on Billboard's Album Chart and was certified Gold, though it did not match the sales of No Secrets. Hotcakes included two top ten singles, "Mockingbird", a duet with James Taylor that peaked at #5 on Billboard's Pop Singles chart, and "Haven't Got Time For the Pain", which hit #2 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart.^[8] The same year, Simon provided vocals on Tom Rush's album Ladies Love Outlaws and co-sang with Rush on "No Regrets" and as backup on "Claim On Me". In 1975, Elektra released her first greatest-hits album, The Best of Carly Simon, which became Simon's all time best selling disc and eventually reached Triple-Platinum status in the United States.

Simon's record sales declined considerably with 1975's Playing Possum and 1976's Another Passenger. Playing Possum was a Top Ten album, with a Top 40 single "Attitude Dancing" and two other charting singles,^[9] but Another Passenger produced only one single, "It Keeps You Running", with the Doobie Brothers, as which barely scraped into the top 50.^[10] 1976 also saw Simon contributing backup vocals on the song "Peter" on Peter Ivers's album Peter Ivers. She also made her only appearance on Saturday Night Live. It was a pre-taped performance—a rare occurrence on that show—because Simon suffered terrible bouts of stage fright. In the appearance, she sang two songs: "Half A Chance" and her signature song, "You're So Vain".

In 1977, Simon had a surprise international hit with "Nobody Does It Better", the theme to the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me. The million-selling Gold single held at #2 for several weeks, behind Debby Boone's mega-hit "You Light Up My Life" (which became the biggest hit of the entire decade). "Nobody Does It Better" remains Simon's second-biggest U.S. hit, after "You're So Vain". It was 1977's biggest Adult Contemporary hit, where it held at #1 for seven straight weeks. It also received Grammy nominations for Song Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance Female.

Also in 1977, Simon co-produced Libby Titus's album Libby Titus and sang backup on two songs: "Can This Be Our Love Affair?" and "Darkness 'Til Dawn".

Simon's career took another upward swing in 1978 with the hit album Boys In The Trees. The album produced another Top 10 Pop and Adult Contemporary hit with the jazzy and sensual "You Belong To Me". Boys In The Trees was a major success, and returned Simon to Platinum album status in the U.S. It later earned Simon yet another Grammy nomination. She was featured on the front covers of People and Rolling Stone magazines that spring. Also in 1978, Simon and James Taylor sang backing vocals on two songs for Taylor's sister Kate's album Kate Taylor: "Happy Birthday Sweet Darling" and "Jason & Ida". Simon and Taylor also sang backup on three songs on John Hall's debut solo album John Hall, "The Fault", "Good Enough" and "Voyagers". Simon and Taylor would also sing backup on one song, "Power", from Hall's next album, which is also titled Power (1979).

On November 2, 1978, Simon guested on the song "I Live In The Woods" at a live, four-hour concert by Burt Bacharach and the Houston Symphony Orchestra at Jones Hall in Houston, Texas. All the songs at that concert became Bacharach's album Woman, which was released in 1979. That year, shortly after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, from September 19 to September 22, a series of concerts were held at New York City's Madison Square Garden and sponsored by Musicians United for Safe Energy (MUSE), a group of musicians against nuclear power, co-founded by John Hall. Always politically active, Simon and James Taylor were part of the concerts which later became a documentary and concert film, No Nukes (1980) as well as a live album of the same name (1979).

Simon released her last album for Elektra, Spy, in 1979. It sold poorly, although a harder-edged single from the album, "Vengeance", was a modest hit and received airplay on U.S. album rock stations. "Vengeance" earned Simon a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance Female in early 1980 - the first year to feature the new category.

From 1972 to 1979, Simon sang backup vocals on the following James Taylor songs and albums (not counting compilations): "One Man Parade" from 1972's One Man Dog, "Rock 'n' Roll Is Music Now", "Let It All Fall Down", "Me And My Guitar", "Daddy's Baby" and "Ain't No Song" from 1974's Walking Man, "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" from 1975's Gorilla, "Shower the People", "A Junkie's Lament", "Slow Burning Love" and "Family Man" from 1976's In the Pocket, and "B.S.U.R." from 1979's Flag. She also co-wrote with Taylor the song "Terra Nova" on his 1977 album JT.

1980s[link]

In 1980, Simon signed with Elektra's sibling label Warner Bros. Records. During a show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, while she toured to promote her album, Come Upstairs, Simon collapsed onstage of exhaustion. She subsequently performed considerably less throughout the 1980s. Simon scored another million-selling U.S. Gold single with the hit, "Jesse", from that album. Simon also contributed the song "Be With Me" to the 1980 album In Harmony: A Sesame Street Record, which was produced by her sister Lucy and Lucy's husband, David Levine. Simon can also be heard on the song "In Harmony", along with other members of the Simon/Taylor families. Carly and Lucy contributed a "Simon Sisters" song — which was called "Maryanne" — to the 1982 follow-up album In Harmony 2, which was also produced by Lucy and her husband. Both albums won Grammy Awards for Best Album for Children.

Torch (1981) was an album of melancholy jazz standards, but suffered from disappointing sales. The Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards produced single "Why", from the soundtrack to the 1982 film Soup For One, was a top-ten hit single in the U.K. but stalled at #74 in the U.S. She had another minor U.K. success with the single "Kissing With Confidence", a song off the 1983 album Dancing For Mental Health by Will Powers (a pseudonym for photographer Lynn Goldsmith). Simon was the uncredited singer of the song co-written and mixed by Todd Rundgren. Simon's singles were generally less successful in the 1980s, although most of them did quite well on Adult Contemporary radio formats. In 1983, she made her last album for Warner, Hello Big Man, but this also suffered from disappointing sales. That same year, Simon performed on two albums, The Perfect Stranger by Jesse Colin Young (singing on the track "Fight For It" with Young) and Wonderland by Nils Lofgren (singing on the track "Lonesome Ranger" with Lofgren). By this time, her contract with Warner Bros. had ended. In 1985, she signed with Epic Records and made one album for them, Spoiled Girl. This too was commercially unsuccessful and her contract with Epic was cancelled.

In 1986, Simon signed with Arista Records and soon rebounded from her career slump. Her first album for Arista, Coming Around Again (1987), gave Simon another international hit with the title track (which was featured in the film Heartburn), returning her to the Billboard Pop Top 20 and the U.K. Top 10 (It also garnered her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance). The album also featured the Top 10 Adult Contemporary hits "Give Me All Night", "The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of", "All I Want Is You" and a cover of "As Time Goes By" (featuring Stevie Wonder on harmonica). The album itself was her first Gold release in nine years, and went Platinum in 1988. These and older songs were featured in a picturesque HBO concert special which was filmed at Martha's Vineyard, where Simon and her band performed live on a pier. Most of these songs were compiled for her 1988 album, Greatest Hits Live. The album continued her mounting comeback, quickly going Gold, and was later certified Platinum by the RIAA in 1996. From Live a recording of Simon's evergreen "You're So Vain" was released as a single in the UK.

Throughout the 1980s, Simon successfully contributed to several film and television scores, including the songs:

• "Why" for the film Soup For One (1982)
• "Something More" for the film Love Child (1982)
• "Someone Waits for You" for the film Swing Shift (1984)
• "All the Love in the World" for the film Torchlight (1985)
• "It's Hard To Be Tender" for the television miniseries Sins (1986)
• "If It Wasn't Love" for the film Nothing In Common (1986)
• "Two Looking at One" for the film The Karate Kid, Part II (1986)
• "Coming Around Again"/"Itsy Bitsy Spider" for the film Heartburn (1986)
• "Let the River Run" for the film Working Girl (1988) (for which she won the Academy Award for Best Song (1988); the Golden Globe Award for Best Song (1988); and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media (1990))

She is the first artist to win all three awards (Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy) for a song that is composed and written, as well as performed, entirely by a single artist (the only other such artist being Bruce Springsteen for his "Streets of Philadelphia" 1993: Oscar, 1994: Golden Globe & two Grammys).

The Working Girl soundtrack album came out in early 1989, and featured more music from Simon, and as a tribute to Christa McAuliffe, who was slated to be the first teacher in space and who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster for whom Simon also wrote a song "You're Where I Go". McAuliffe was a Simon fan and had taken a cassette of her music on board the shuttle.

In 1987, Simon also sang the theme for the 1988 Democratic National Convention, "The Turn of The Tide", for a Marlo Thomas television special Free to Be...A Family. The song was later included on the 1988 soundtrack album of the same name on A&M Records.

1990s[link]

In 1990, Simon released two albums: her second standards album, My Romance, and an album of original material Have You Seen Me Lately. The latter featured a major (#4) Adult Contemporary chart hit with "Better Not Tell Her" - Simon's biggest hit of the 1990s. Her second children's book, "The Boy of the Bells" was also published in 1990 and she wrote the score for the 1990 film Postcards from the Edge. In 1991, Simon wrote her third children's book, "The Fisherman's Song", which was based on the song of the same name from her 1990 album Have You Seen Me Lately. The same year, she performed a duet with Plácido Domingo on the song "The Last Night Of The World" (from the Miss Saigon musical) on Domingo's album The Broadway I Love. A year later, Simon wrote the music for the Nora Ephron film This Is My Life, which included the song "Love Of My Life". In 1993, she contributed the song "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" for the film Sleepless In Seattle and recorded the same song in combo with "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry" with Frank Sinatra for his album Duets.

1993 also saw Simon recording a contemporary opera called Romulus Hunt (having been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera Association and the Kennedy Center). She also published her fourth children's book, The Nighttime Chauffeur. She also contributed to Andreas Vollenweider's album Eolian Minstrel. Simon co-wrote the song "Private Fires" with Vollenweider and was featured vocalist on the song.

In 1994, she covered the song "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" for Ken Burns' film Baseball, as well as a recording of "I've Got a Crush On You" for Larry Adler's covers album The Glory of Gershwin. That same year, Simon recorded another album of original songs, Letters Never Sent, and contributed a Christmas song, "The Night Before Christmas", to the soundtrack for the film Mixed Nuts. In April 1995, Simon surprised thousands of commuters at New York's Grand Central Terminal with an unannounced performance which was filmed for a Lifetime Television Special. It was also released on home video in December of that year. Also in 1995, she put aside years of stage fright long enough to perform on an American concert tour in conjunction with Hall & Oates. On August 30, 1995, she also made a rare joint appearance with her ex-husband, James Taylor, for a concert on Martha's Vineyard. Dubbed "Livestock '95", it was a benefit for the Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society, with over 10,000 people in attendance. She performed a duet with Mindy Jostyn on the song "Time, Be On My Side", featured on Jostyn's 1995 album Five Miles From Hope about her recent battle with colon cancer. Ten years later, Jostyn would pass away from the disease at the age of 43. 1995 also saw the release of Clouds In My Coffee, a boxed set of highlights from her 30 year career from 1965 to 1995.

Simon continued to write and record music for films and wrote the theme songs to several more movies including "Two Little Sisters" from the 1996 movie Marvin's Room and "In Two Straight Lines" from the 1998 movie Madeline. 1997 saw the release of Simon's third standards album, Film Noir, which was recorded in collaboration with Jimmy Webb and for which she was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Vocal Performance. She also released her fifth children's book, "Midnight Farm". Simon was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997, and underwent surgery that year and again in 1998. In 1999 The Very Best Of Carly Simon: Nobody Does It Better, a UK-only greatest hits album, was released. Also that year, Simon worked again with the Swiss musician Andreas Vollenweider, and was the featured vocalist for the song "Your Silver Key" on Vollenweider's album Cosmopoly.

During the 1990s, the American press reported an incident between Simon and the Pretenders' vocalist Chrissie Hynde, at a Joni Mitchell concert at New York's Fez Club. Some reports stated that a drunk and disorderly Hynde grabbed Simon around the neck and punched her, although Simon attempted to put these rumors to rest on her official website in 2002. Numerous witnesses, however, claim that Simon was, indeed, assaulted by Hynde.^[11]

2000s[link]

In 2000, Simon released a new album, The Bedroom Tapes. Largely written and recorded at home in her bedroom (hence the title) while she was recuperating from her health problems of the previous couple of years, it was her first album of original songs in almost six years. Despite this, the album did not sell well, though one of the album's tracks, "Our Affair", was remixed and featured in the Gwyneth Paltrow/Ben Affleck film "Bounce". In 2001, Simon performed on "Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)" with Janet Jackson on Jackson's album All for You. She also contributed back-up vocals on two songs, "Don't Turn Away" and "East Of Eden", for Mindy Jostyn's 2001 album Blue Stories. In November 2001, Simon's Oscar-winning song "Let the River Run" was used in a public service ad for the United States Postal Service. Entitled "Pride", it was produced to boost public confidence and postal worker morale in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks and the 2001 Anthrax attacks.

In 2002, Simon recorded a Christmas album, Christmas Is Almost Here, for Rhino Records, while she was in Los Angeles to lend support to her son Ben Taylor and his band. That same year, Simon personally chose all of the songs for a new two-disc anthology album, simply titled Anthology, for Rhino Records. 2003 saw a re-release of her 2002 Christmas album with two extra tracks and now called Christmas Is Almost Here Again on Rhino Records. The two extra tracks, "White Christmas" and "Forgive", were also released as a single. Simon also performed several concerts during the 2004 holiday season at Harlem's Apollo Theater, along with BeBe Winans, son Ben and daughter Sally, Rob Thomas, Livingston Taylor, Mindy Jostyn and Kate Taylor, along with other members of the Taylor and Simon family.

Among Simon's recent work, there were songs for the Disney Winnie the Pooh films Piglet's Big Movie in 2003 and Pooh's Heffalump Movie in 2005. Several of her songs were also featured in the 2004 movie Little Black Book that starred Brittany Murphy and Holly Hunter. Simon appears in a cameo role as herself at the end of the movie. 2004 also saw the release of her fourth greatest hits album, Reflections: Carly Simon's Greatest Hits, which peaked at #22 on the Billboard charts that year (#25 in the UK). The album became Simon's first Gold-certified disc since the late 1980s.

In 2005, she released her fourth album of standards, titled Moonlight Serenade. A surprise hit, it reached #7 on the Billboard Album charts, her highest-charting album in nearly 30 years. She was also nominated for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. To promote Moonlight Serenade, Simon performed two concerts onboard the Queen Mary 2 which were recorded and released on DVD in 2005. She also performed a concert tour in the United States - her first tour in 10 years. Simon also sang a duet, "Angel Of The Darkest Night", with Mindy Jostyn on Jostyn's 2005 album Coming Home. The album was released several months after Jostyn's death on March 10, 2005. As one of Simon's closest friends, Jostyn was married to Jacob Brackman, Simon's long-time friend and musical collaborator. In 2005, she became involved in the legal defense of musician and family friend John Forté with his struggle against a federal incarceration.

Simon again teamed up with the Swiss musician Andreas Vollenweider for his 2006 holiday album, Midnight Clear. She performed vocals on the tracks "Midnight Clear", "Suspended Note", "Hymn to the Secret Heart" and "Forgive" (which was a song Simon wrote for her own 2002 holiday album Christmas Is Almost Here). Also in 2006, Simon performed with Livingston Taylor on his album There You Are Again, singing on the opening track "We're The Best Of Friends".

In 2007, Simon released her fifth album of covers, a collection of "soothing songs and lullabies" called Into White for Columbia Records. The collection featured covers of songs by Cat Stevens, the title track, recordings by Judy Garland, The Beatles and the Everly Brothers, as well as two new original songs. It also featured vocal collaborations with her children, Ben Taylor and Sally Taylor. The album continued Simon's recently rejuvenated high chart profile and became Billboard′s Hot Shot Debut, entering the chart at number #13.

In March 2008, it was announced that Simon had signed to the Starbucks label, Hear Music. She released a new album entitled This Kind of Love with them in the spring of 2008. The album was her first collection of original songs since 2000's The Bedroom Tapes.^[12] However, in October 2009, it was reported that Simon was suing Starbucks, saying they did not adequately promote the album — despite that it made the US Top 20 (#15) and sold nearly 150,000 copies. Simon's lawsuit stated that Starbucks publicly announced it was backing out of participation in Hear Music just days before the album came out — a decision that she claimed doomed the record before it was even released.^[13]

On June 19, 2008, Simon and her son Ben performed "You're So Vain" together on The Howard Stern Show on Sirius Satellite radio.

In October 2009, Simon released Never Been Gone, an album of acoustic reworkings of some of her classic songs.^[14] The album was released via Iris Records. On November 26, 2009, Simon appeared on the Care Bears float of the 83rd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, where she sang "Let The River Run".^[15]

On 2 March 2010, Radio 2 - An Evening With Carly Simon was broadcast. Simon performed live for the first time in the UK to a small audience of approximately 100 people with her son Ben. This coincided with the UK release of the Never Been Gone album, which was released for the Mother's Day season and peaked at #45 (Simon's first studio album to reach the UK Top 100 since 1987's Coming Around Again). Simon also appeared on various UK television shows to promote the album, including The One Show and BBC Breakfast.

Film and television appearances[link]

Besides music, Simon has also appeared (as herself) in films, such as the 1985 film Perfect, and an uncredited appearance in the 2004 film Little Black Book. On television, she appeared (also as herself) in a 1989 episode of Thirtysomething and was a guest-caller on a 1995 episode of Frasier entitled "Roz in the Doghouse".

Personal life[link]

Simon married fellow singer-songwriter James Taylor on November 3, 1972.^[16] Simon and Taylor had two children, Sarah "Sally" Maria Taylor (born January 7, 1974) and Benjamin "Ben" Simon Taylor (born January 22, 1977), both of whom are musicians and political activists. Simon and Taylor divorced in 1983.^[17] In the June 20, 2004, issue of Askmen.com, Simon said that she no longer speaks to her ex-husband, James Taylor. "I would say our relationship is non-existent. It's not the way I want it."^[18] On October 4, 2007, Simon became a grandmother, when her daughter Sally gave birth to a son, Bodhi Taylor Bragonier.^[19]

Prior to her marriage to Taylor, Simon was briefly engaged to William Donaldson in the 1960s (who jilted fiancée Sarah Miles for her).^[20] Donaldson described her as "the answer to any sane man's prayers; funny, quick, erotic, extravagantly talented."^[21] She also was engaged to musician Russ Kunkel, from 1985 to 1986.^[22]

Simon married James Hart, a writer, poet, and businessman, on December 23, 1987. The couple divorced in 2007.^{[citation needed]}

Simon underwent a mastectomy, chemotherapy, and reconstructive surgery for breast cancer during 1997 and 1998. There had been a lump in her breast for several years before then, but her doctors had advised her against surgery. Simon later recounted: "Then one doctor said, 'You know what, I'd rather see it in a jar than in your breast.'" She also said that she felt "a little angry with myself" over the fact that she did not insist on taking it out sooner.^[23] Simon's surgery came at the same time as the death of her long-time friend Linda McCartney, who had also struggled with breast cancer. Simon described McCartney's death as having emotionally "crushed" her.^[24]

Simon resides on Martha's Vineyard and is associated with a store in Vineyard Haven named Midnight Farm, the title of one of her series of children's books from the late 1980s and 1990s.^{[citation needed]}

In an interview published on May 1, 2008, with the Bay Area Reporter, an LGBT news service, Simon was asked about the possibility of a performance in the True Colors Tour. She responded, "The part that I could be involved in is the gay and lesbian part. The part that would be hard for me is to commit to a tour, because I'm not very comfortable being onstage. But the part that would be easiest for me would be singing on behalf of all of us. I don't consider myself to be not gay... I've enlarged all of my possibilities. I have a lot of extremely personal stories to tell about that, but we won't go into that right now. Let's just say that it just depends upon who I'm with."^[25]

Simon has been close friends with James Taylor's younger brother Livingston Taylor for over forty years. Livingston has said, "I love Carly and Carly loves me. She's a ferocious advocate and supporter of my music." They have worked as a musical duo for some songs such as "Best of Friends", released in Livingston's 2006 album There You Are Again, and others earlier in their careers.^[26]

In May 2010 Simon revealed she had been one of the several celebrities who fell victims to financial advisor Kenneth I. Starr, now a prison inmate, whose Ponzi scheme lured her into 'investing' millions of dollars with him, which she lost.^[27][28]

In an interview with Reuters on April 18, 2012, Simon revealed that she has a severe stammer.^[29]

Awards and recognition[link]

• Grammy Awards:
  • 1971 — Best New Artist
  • 1989 — Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television for "Let the River Run" from Working Girl (1988)
  • 2004 (inducted) — Grammy Hall of Fame Award for "You're So Vain" (1972)
• Academy Award:
  • 1988 — Best Song, "Let the River Run" from Working Girl
• Golden Globe Awards:
  • 1989 — Best Original Song, "Let the River Run" from Working Girl (1988)
• Other awards:
  • 1994 — inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
  • 2012 — awarded the ASCAP Founders Award

Discography[link]

Videography[link]

• Live from Martha's Vineyard, 1987
• Carly in Concert — My Romance, 1990
• Live at Grand Central, 1995
• A Moonlight Serenade on the Queen Mary 2, 2005
• Christa McAuliffe: Reach for the Stars documentary, songs by Carly Simon 2006 [1]

Works[link]

• Amy the Dancing Bear, 1989
• The Boy of the Bells, 1990
• The Fisherman's Song, 1991
• The Nighttime Chauffeur, 1993
• Midnight Farm, 1997

References[link]