Carly Simon lets slip name of man who thought Youre So Vain was about him

By Heidi Blake Published: 7:22AM GMT twenty-six February 2010

Carly Simon in New York Photo: AP

The temperament of the singers self-regarding former lover, that coincides with the recover of the 64-year-olds biggest hits album, is disclosed during an instrumental pause in a new acoustic recording of the hit.

The name "David" is whispered retrograde around two-and-a-half mins in to the track. Simon has reliable that it is a anxiety to the man who, according to the song, "walked in to a celebration similar to he was on foot onto a yacht."

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"Im only going to discuss it you this," she pronounced when asked about cocktail musics good poser in an talk with Uncut magazine. "The answer is on the new version of Youre So Vain. Theres a small wheeze and the the answer to the puzzle."

The admission manners out majority of the men thought majority expected to have "flown their jets to Nova Scotia to see the sum obscure of the sun."

Warren Beatty, who quickly went out with Simon in the early 1970s, was deliberate by many, together with himself, to be the theme of the song.

Simon pronounced in 1983 that the actress suited the description. "He positively thought it was about him He called me and said: interjection for the song".

Other distinguished suspects have enclosed Mick Jagger, who available subsidy vocals on the strange track, and James Taylor, to whom Simon was tied together in between 1972 and 1983, nonetheless she regularly denied that it was about him.

The new avowal leaves dual possibilities in the running. David Cassidy, who rose to celebrity with the TV show The Partridge Family, was twenty-two when the strain was written, but had already launched a successful piece for one person career. David Bowie, the British stone star, has additionally been discussed as a possibility.

Simon pronounced in 2003 and 2004 that the theme had the letters A, E and R in his name, that leaves a subject symbol over both men. Bowie was innate Duncan Robert Jones and Cassidys center name is Bruce.

David Crosby, of the folk-rock rope Crosby Stills and Nash, lived in Los Angeles at the same time as Simon. She has referred to the strain was formed on a combination of 3 men she knew whilst vital in the Californian city.

In a 1989 interview, the thespian said: "It regularly strikes me as droll that people should be that in to what I was meditative about. Thats the biggest ego outing anybody could have. And for that reason of course, I can never give it away."

A orator for her jot down association said: "After 38 years, we will never get a approach answer from Carly."