{"id":366483,"date":"2010-02-26T13:48:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T18:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=94624"},"modified":"2010-02-26T13:48:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T18:48:36","slug":"carly-simon-%e2%80%9cyou%e2%80%99re-so-vain%e2%80%9d-mystery-man-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/366483","title":{"rendered":"Carly Simon \u201cYou\u2019re So Vain\u201d Mystery Man Revealed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Carly-Simon-Youre-So-Vain-Mystery-Man-500x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Carly Simon You&#039;re So Vain Mystery Man\" width=\"500\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-94647\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sorry Warren Beatty, this song is not about you! <\/p>\n<p>Carly Simon has given the biggest clue yet into one of music&#8217;s great mysteries. Who inspired her hit 1972 song &#8220;You&#8217;re So Vain?&#8221; The identity of the singer&#8217;s former lover is revealed in a new acoustic version of the song, recorded for the 64-year-old&#8217;s greatest hits album.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-94624\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m just going to tell you this,&#8221; <\/em>Carly said, speaking to <em>Uncut Magazine<\/em> this week. <em>&#8220;The answer is on the new version of You&#8217;re So Vain. There&#8217;s a little whisper &#8211; and it&#8217;s the answer to the puzzle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Sun<\/em> claims the music legend is heard whispering &#8220;David&#8221; in an instrumental interlude as a reference to the long unidentified man. In fact, the London tabloid goes one step further and claims that Simon was talking about record exec David Geffen &#8212; who was head of Carly&#8217;s Elektra record label. Rather than being angry about a failed relationship, as long suggested, Carly is thought to have resented the effort Geffen put into promoting her rival Joni Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/showbiz\/bizarre\/2869512\/Carly-Simon-ends-Youre-So-Vain-riddle.html\">CLICK HERE To Listen To The Whisper&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1u7HLQ-jkWBq56e1ZXeR3aSNY6M\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1u7HLQ-jkWBq56e1ZXeR3aSNY6M\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1u7HLQ-jkWBq56e1ZXeR3aSNY6M\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/1u7HLQ-jkWBq56e1ZXeR3aSNY6M\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry Warren Beatty, this song is not about you! Carly Simon has given the biggest clue yet into one of music&#8217;s great mysteries. Who inspired her hit 1972 song &#8220;You&#8217;re So Vain?&#8221; The identity of the singer&#8217;s former lover is revealed in a new acoustic version of the song, recorded for the 64-year-old&#8217;s greatest hits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}