FORBES : Carly Simon Charts Her First Hit On One List With A Decades-Old Tune →

Carly Simon is regarded as one of the most celebrated female voices in pop music history, both for her pioneering work as a songwriter and for her slew of hit singles. While Simon hasn’t released a new album in more than 15 years, she remains a legend and is highly regarded, especially among fellow singer-songwriters. Thanks to an exciting recent re-release of one of her most popular tunes, Simon is back on the charts in the United Kingdom — not with something brand new, but rather with a decades-old cut that has found a second life.

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Opera Wire.com : Nashville Opera Releases First-Ever Recording of Carly Simon’s ‘Romulus Hunt’ (by David Salazar) →

Nashville Opera has joined forces with Lexicon Classics to release the first-ever recording of Carly Simon‘s sole opera, “Romulus Hunt.” Nashville Opera will present the recording as a birthday gift to its creator, who will celebrate her 80th birthday on Sunday, June 25, 2023. The work was originally commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera Guild and the Kennedy Center in 1993 and is a semi-autobiographical work by renowned pop singer Carly Simon.

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Pop matters : CARLY SIMON BECAME A POP ROM-COM QUEEN WITH ‘COMING AROUND AGAIN’ (by ​Peter Piatkowski) →

Like Ephron, Simon looked to her fame-laced life when composing her tales of domestic ennui. When Ephron’s roman à clef, Heartburn, was adapted into a film by Mike Nichols, Simon was tapped to write the film’s theme song, “Coming Around Again”. Both projects – the film and the music – are artifacts of the 1980s. Heartburn and “Coming Around Again” are products of a decade that wrestled with rapidly changing gender roles as well as a generation of Baby Boomers who came of age during the counterculture of the 1960s only to become more conservative and embrace the capitalist, consumerist culture of the ‘Me Decade’ of the 1980s. Simon’s song and album is the standard-bearer of 1980s mainstream, upper-class liberal pop.

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American Songwriter : Carly Simon Shares New, Live Version of 1971 Hit “That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be” (by Tina Benitez-Eves) →

Carly Simon has revealed a new version of her 1971 hit “That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be,” one of 15 tracks off her upcoming CD and Blu-ray release, Live at Grand Central, out Jan. 27. On April 2, 1995, commuters on their way to work were surprised when Carly Simon sat down at the piano in the middle of one of the busiest transportation hubs in New York City, Grand Central Terminal, for an impromptu concert, her first live performance in 14 years.

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Crooked : Nobody Does It Better: Carly Simon’s Film Scores (by Chelsea Spear) →

Throughout the 1970s, Carly Simon was among the leading lights of the Laurel Canyon singer/songwriter movement. She ascended to the top of the charts with singles that yoked epigrammatic lyrics to catchy melodies and smooth production. On songs like her signature hit, “You’re So Vain,” her eye for lyrical detail and the humor in her vocal performance made her an icon for heartbroken fans everywhere, giving them the words they wish they could have said themselves. 

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Cleveland.com : Carly Simon’s tribulations and triumphs gave modern women a voice (by Troy. L. Smith) →

During her July 27 “Red Tour” stop in Foxborough, Mass., megastar Taylor Swift surprised her audience by bringing Simon on stage to duet the latter’s iconic hit “You’re So Vain.” “You had the No. 1 artist in the world invite Carly to come up and sing ‘You’re So Vain’ on stage with her,” says Simon’s longtime friend and guitarist Jimmy Ryan. “It doesn’t get bigger than that when you’re trying to examine Carly’s influence on younger artists. It was right there.”

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Rolling Stone : Carly Simon on Rock Hall Induction: ‘It Must Be the House of Pancakes I Got Into’ (by Angie Martoccio) →

Carly Simon has faced her fear of flying before. In 1971, she forced herself to board a plane to Los Angeles for her first-ever show at the Troubadour, where she opened for Cat Stevens. In 1989, she made another momentous trip there, this time to attend the Academy Awards, where “Let the River Run,” from Working Girl, won her a Best Original Song trophy. And this fall, she’ll return to L.A. for the 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where she’s finally being inducted after being eligible since 1996.

“There’s that first thought of, ‘I don’t believe it. It must be the House of Pancakes I just got into,'” says Simon. Simon spoke to RS about getting into the Hall of Fame, the upcoming film adaptation to her 2015 memoir Boys in the Trees, and the 50th anniversary of No Secrets.

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Pittsburgh Post Gazette : Music in Motion #7: Why the Carly Simon, Bob Marley shows at the Stanley became historic, Millvale Fest, more →

It also appears on abcnews.com describing how the “pop queen” responsible for such hits as “You’re So Vain,” “Anticipation” and “Nobody Does It Better” fell ill during the first of two shows there that night. ''I had two choices,'' Simon told The New York Times. ''I could either leave the stage and say I was sick or tell the audience the truth. I decided to tell them I was having an anxiety attack, and they were incredibly supportive. They said, 'Go with it — we'll be with you.'

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