Carly Simon finally reveals the subject of her hit You’re So Vain: it’s David Geffen

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Carly Simon finally reveals the subject of her hit You’re So Vain: it’s David Geffen

David Geffen not Warren Beatty is the swine at the center of the lyrics to You’re SoVain, Carly Simon has revealedon a new version of the song. But Geffen is openly gay. What is going on?

Simon, 64, ended the 38 year guessing game by whispering the name backwards on a reworked version of the song for her new album Never Been Gone, out next week.

Previously Simon had always claimed the song was a ‘composite’ of people she knew.

In 1972 when she wrote the song billionaire Geffen was the head of her Elektra record label.

It is thought she was inspired to write the damning lyrics after Geffen put all his time and energy into promoting her rival, Joni Mitchell, over her.

n the hit Simon sings that the man walked into the party like he was walking on to a yacht.

The subject of her wrath jilted her before going to Saratoga to watch his horse naturally win.

Beatty is said to have been convinced he was the inspiration behind the song.

Other suspects included Jagger, who sang backing vocals for the original song, and James Taylor, the American songwriter to whom Simon was married between 1972 and 1983.

Musictoob says: we don’t believe you Carly, we thinbk it’s about Warren Beatty and nothing you say is going to change that. (Sticks fingers in ears) Na Na Na. What do you think?