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Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945 in New York City) is an American musician who emerged as one of the leading lights of the early 1970s singer-songwriter boom.

Simon’s major breakthrough was 1972’s “No Secrets”. The album spawned several successful singles, including Simon’s biggest hit, “You’re So Vain”. Simon continued to produce successful albums though the 70s and early 80s, moving into film scores after she was dropped by her record label in 1985.

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You’re So Vain” is a sarcastic profile of a self-absorbed lover. The song was a number-one hit (it topped the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks in early 1973, and also spent two weeks at the top of the Adult Contemporary chart, her first #1 song on either chart), and spawned what many fans consider to be the biggest musical mystery of the era. There has been much debate over who exactly the song is about. Popular guesses on the subject include Mick Jagger (who sang backing vocals on the song), Cat Stevens, Warren Beatty, Kris Kristofferson, unfaithful fiancé William Donaldson, and Simon’s ex-husband, James Taylor. Later “clues” given by Carly Simon herself have all but excluded Stevens, Kristofferson and Donaldson from that list.

Carly Simon is also a member of the elite group of artists who have performed the main title song for a James Bond film. “

Nobody Does It Better” was a worldwide hit in 1977, it being the theme song of “The Spy Who Loved Me”.

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1	You're So Vain full track	1,754
2	Nobody Does It Better full track	1,106
3	Coming Around Again full track	509
4	You Belong To Me full track	247
5	Why	240
6	Let the River Run	229
7	The Right Thing To Do full track	166
8	Anticipation full track	144
9	That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be full track	129
10	You're So Vain - LP Version	113
11	All I Want Is You full track	88
12	Haven't Got Time for the Pain	86
13	The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of full track	76
14	Give Me All Night full track	75
15	In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning full track	65

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senor_velasco wrote:
Sunday morning

Does anyone know when the European tour dates for 2010 will be announced? I'd like to get my parents tickets for Christmas.... Thanks

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wowugotit wrote:
17 days ago

Carly is my all time favorite singer!

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Crustclock wrote:
August 2009

Carly King

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trackaghost wrote:
August 2009

Carly's voice always seems to soothe me

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musiclikeabomb wrote:
June 2009

This Kind of Love <333

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rafcosford wrote:
April 2009

Anyone notice M. Jagger join in the chorus at the end of You're So Vain?

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EmmaKSpence wrote:
March 2009

Your So Vain and nobody does it better is just genius songwriting She's so great! FOR SENSUAL PIANO, SOULFUL VOICE CHECK OUT:www.last.fm/music/Emma+K+Spence/The+Piano+Sessions

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aprilasinapril wrote:
March 2009

Carly makes me cry even when I don't know I have tears to shed. She gets in my soul like a beautiful sunset.

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Mebyon wrote:
March 2009

This is such a great sound that everyone in their lifetime should have the chance to listen to Carly Simon song ...........the lyrics say it all .... great

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tessala_86 wrote:
March 2009

One of the best james bond songs ever :)

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sutashi wrote:
March 2009

vote for http://www.last.fm/music/Carly+Simon/+images/13538223 !!

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htomharvey wrote:
February 2009

what avoice

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LondonLouis wrote:
February 2009

Nobody Does It Better - still an excellent song.

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crazykaz02 wrote:
February 2009

wonderfull song

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emmaforman wrote:
January 2009

great

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ibeenthere wrote:
January 2009

A perfect tune.

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LarkCGN wrote:
December 2008

The Stuff that Dreams are Made of: One of her absolutely best ... powerful moving inspirational... wonderful!!!

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kepler789-982 wrote:
December 2008

THE BEST THE BEST THEME OF JAMES BOND

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jdamron714 wrote:
November 2008

This song is wonderful, love it!! I can dance several times to it, with the feeling that she unfolds in the song, feel it, dance it!!

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MC-Escher wrote:
November 2008

c'est formidable. elle me donne des comforts.

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