The mystery behind Carly Simon’s biggest hit continues to fascinate decades after it reached No. 1.

Some classic rock songs sent shock waves through the industry that are still being felt today. Carly Simon’s 1972 hit “You’re So Vain” is often credited with revolutionizing feminism in pop music. The ...

Marilyn Manson and Johnny Depp teamed up for a strange and unexpected cover of Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” in 2012. The pairing of these two iconic figures made headlines, but the cover was unlike ...

At some point in 1971, Carly Simon attended a party in Los Angeles that would change the trajectory of her career. That evening, a man she knew walked in with a palpable air of pompousness. Simon ...

One of music's most long-standing mysteries has finally been solved -- sort of. Carly Simon's been notoriously tight-lipped about the inspiration behind her mammoth hit "You're So Vain," often ...

Carly Simon's hit 1972 single You're So Vain starts with one of the best opening lines in pop music: "You walked into the party, like you were walking onto a yacht". This killer lyric helps set up the ...

Contact Daniel Kreps on X Contact Daniel Kreps by Email Simon had long claimed that the person in “You’re So Vain” represented a “composite” of different men she encountered in the early 1970s, and ...

For more than 40 years, the identity of the egomaniac who inspired Carly Simon to write and record her 1972 hit single “You’re So Vain” has remained one of the most enigmatic mysteries in pop music.

Taylor Swift welcomed guest Carly Simon on stage to sing the latter’s 1973 hit “You’re So Vain” to a stadium of concertgoers in Massachusetts. So does this count as her giving Generation Y a healthy ...

The singer-songwriter and performer known simply as Desure taps into his glammy side in the video for his cover of Carly Simon‘s “You’re So Vain,” which officially arrives today. Desure, whose given ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “I can’t possibly tell who it’s about because it wouldn’t be fair,” Carly Simon told Rolling Stone magazine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We can harken a guess about the identities of the men referenced in the other verses. Simon has had public relationships with the ...