Carly & Chrissie

During the 1990s the New York press reported on a supposed incident between Simon and the Pretenders' lead singer, Chrissie Hynde, at a Joni Mitchell concert at New York's Fez Club. The verbal confrontation between the two led to Simon's exit from the concert after a noisy Hynde insulted Simon. Some reports have Hynde grabbing Simon around the neck and punching her although a publicist for Hynde has said that Hynde was just hugging Simon.

Nobody Does It Better (1977)

BIG DUMB GUY "The Bedroom Tapes" (2000)

Big Dumb Guy
After a long songwriting layoff, Simon has returned with the brilliant, confident THE BEDROOM TAPES, which she wrote, recorded, and produced in -- you guessed it -- a bedroom in her home. Musically, it's her most upbeat album in years, full of anthems and bluesy funk, as well as the now-classic folk rock that was her trademark in the early 1970s. Lyrically, she juxtaposes vulnerability with a ferocity of spirit. "In a way, I'm a very private person," Simon admitted to bn.com's Douglas Clegg, "but I don't think there's very much that I couldn't disclose about myself or that I'd be ashamed of."

The Simon Sisters

Carly Simon's musical career began with a short-lived attempt with her sister Lucy as The Simon Sisters. They had a minor hit in 1964 called "Winkin', Blinkin' and Nod" and made three albums together before Lucy left to get married and start a family. After that Simon hooked up with eclectic New York rockers Elephant's Memory for about six months. She also appeared in the 1971 Milos Forman movie Taking Off where she played an auditioning singer and sang the song "Long Term Physical Effects" which was included in Taking Off, the 1971 soundtrack for the movie.

CARLY ( SO MANY STARS )

Carly singing live, "So Many Stars"
Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four. Carly Simon

Oscar Winner Best Song "Let The River Run" (1990)

Carly Simon Window Shopping At Yates Drug Store

Carly "Do The Wall's Come Down"

"Do The Wall's Come Down"

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say. Carly Simon.

Carly Simon & Cat Stevens

Cat Stevens and Carly Simon in London during the recording of Anticipation. (1970)

Photograph by Peter Simon (Carlys' brother)

Carly Simon & President Clinton (1998)

President Bill Clinton hugs singer Carly Simon, as his daughter Chelsea hugs family friend Vernon Jordan while first lady Hillary Clinton walks off Air Force One shortly after arriving at the Martha's Vineyard airport in West Tisbury.

Carly "Never Been Gone" (SPY-1979)

"NEVER BEEN GONE'

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything. Carly Simon.

(V E N G E A N C E ) A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

V E N G E A N C E (SPY 1979)

Carly & Lucy Simon

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters. Carly Simon

ANTICIPATION

You know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude. Carly Simon.

Carly Simon & Sally Taylor

CARLY & SALLY
You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new. Carly Simon

"I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack." - Carly Simon

"I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17." - Carly Simon

It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black. Carly Simon

One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it in an objective way, so that it doesn't cause me any serious pain by staying inside. Carly Simon

Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't. Carly Simon

Carly Simon "I GoT It Bad And That Ain't Good"

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars...Carly Simon.

Carly Rolling Stone

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me. Carly Simon

Rolling Stone

Carly Simon "Spoiled Girl"

CARLY "I Only Have Eyes For You"

Carly Simon, David Crosby, Jimmy Webb "In My Room"