Carly Simon recalled life with her famous publisher father, as well as her marriage to James Taylor, at an event for her new autobiography “Boys in the Trees: A Memoir.”
A guest at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Mass., where Simon appeared, told us that she “told many stories about her life. She said her father was Richard Simon, a co-founder of Simon & Schuster, and her parents hosted many interesting people. As a child she remembers Albert Einstein visiting her home, and that baseball great Jackie Robinson lived at her home for around two years and she attended baseball games with him sitting in the dugout.”
The guest added that Simon spoke in an Irish brogue “because she felt like it,” and that Jackie Onassis was the first person to tell her she should write her autobiography.
She added she first saw her first husband, Taylor, on the cover of Time magazine and said to herself, “I am going to marry him.” They were married from 1972 to 1983, and she added she still “has love” for him since he’s the father of her two children.
The guest added: “A woman in the audience was wearing an apricot scarf. Carly was told that and decided to sing a few lines from her song ‘You’re So Vain.’ The entire audience started to sing it with her, and when she was finished she received huge applause.” The song includes the lyrics: “Your scarf, it was apricot.”