Reuters - Nov 2, 2009
Carly Simon rarely performs concerts, due to a toxic combination of stage fright and fear of flying. Fans who really want to hear the singer/songwriter dust off You're So Vain or Anticipation might...
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Carly Simon recorded her new album, Never Been Gone, at her Martha's Vineyard compound, and she delivers intriguing twists on her hits ( You're So Vain, Anticipation ) and other songs from past...
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SEATTLE – Singer Carly Simon is suing Starbucks Corp., saying the coffee company s now-defunct music venture didn t adequately promote her 2008 album, dooming the record before it was even released....
More »AP - May 12, 2008
Carly Simon didn t find it easy reading Girls Like Us, the nonfiction best-seller which interweaves her life story with those of fellow singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell and Carole King. Simon was the...
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NEW YORK (AP) Carly Simon was worried about preserving her voice as she rehearsed for her first public performance of tunes from her new CD, but she couldn t restrain herself as she got swept away...
More »AP - May 2, 2008
Surely Carly Simon wasn t talking about anybody in this room. A Rachael Ray fundraiser attended by Bill Clinton, Bobby Flay, Mario Batali, Joy Behar and Katie Lee among others turned into a private concert...
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Now that the identity of Deep Throat, the secret source in the Watergate case, has been revealed, there is really only one lingering mystery from the 1970s. Who was songwriter Carly Simon singing about...
More »Reuters - Feb 29, 2008
Carly Simon has joined former husband James Taylor, Paul McCartney and Joni Mitchell on the roster of Starbucks' Hear Music label. Her first release for the company, This Kind of Love, will be available...
More »AP - Jan 22, 2007
The photojournalist who produced the critically acclaimed Reggae Bloodlines some 30 years ago returned to Jamaica recently to work on another collection. Peter Simon, younger brother of singer/songwriter...
More »Reuters - Jan 12, 2007
As the founder of Elektra Records -- started with $300 of his own money in 1950 -- Jac Holzman set a label standard for artistic vision and commercial imagination. Since leaving in 1973, his career...
More »E! Online - Jan 10, 2007
Girl Power is alive and well. With the film doing record business at the box office and picking up plenty of awards mojo going into the Oscar season, the Dreamgirls soundtrack has climbed to the top...
More »Reuters - Aug 28, 2006
You may have seen the recent photos of Bob Dylan looking uncannily like Charlie Chaplin, and his 44th album, Modern Times, shares a title with Chaplin s 1936 classic about automation, big business and...
More »AP - Jan 20, 2006
Livingston Taylor, There You Are Again (Coconut Bay) As anyone attending a contemporary Christian service can testify, there s a lot of bad praise music. The genre has an enormous market for new songs...
More »AP - Aug 26, 2005
The nearly weeklong search for a Grammy-nominated producer ended Friday after a resident spotted the man sitting naked in a backyard creek, washing his jeans. The Topanga Canyon resident found a distraught...
More »AP - Aug 25, 2005
A Grammy-nominated music producer who has been missing since Sunday called a friend that day on his cell phone to say he was being chased by people with dogs, authorities said. Christian Julian Irwin...
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Carly Simon s upcoming two performances on board Cunard s Queen Mary 2 will be recorded for a PBS special and DVD release. The singer-songwriter is scheduled to entertain passengers sailing September...
More »E! Online - Jul 27, 2005
Leave it to a teen to knock R. Kelly for a loop. Now That s What I Call Music! 19, the latest edition in the world s most popular hits compilation series, used its star power to erase the competition...
More »Reuters - Jul 2, 2005
Grammy-winning soul singer and songwriter Luther Vandross, who suffered a serious stroke two years ago as he was about to relaunch his career, died on Friday in a New Jersey hospital, officials said....
More »Reuters - Mar 26, 2005
When Blue Note Records recently signed pianist Robert Glasper, it marked the label s first enlistment of a young, up-and-coming instrumentalist since pianist Bill Charlap five years ago. In between,...
More »AP - Mar 18, 2005
Thirty years after the British comedy troupe Monty Python began tickling funny bones on both sides of the Atlantic, the Broadway debut of Monty Python s Spamalot Thursday night proved fans are still chuckling...
More »Reuters - Dec 18, 2004
The third chart entry proves to be the charm for Mario, who rises to a new career peak on the Billboard Hot 100 with Let Me Love You (3rd Street/J). The single moves 3-2, eclipsing the No. 4 peak of his...
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