27 1 / 2012

Mon anecdote préférée au sujet de “You’re So Vain” de Carly Simon : “After thirty years of keeping the gavotter’s identity a secret, Simon sold the information in 2003 to the high bidder in a charity auction benefiting Martha’s Vineyard Community Services. The winner: Dick Ebersol, the NBC Sports president (and one of the executives behind the launch of “Saturday Night Live”). For $50,000, Simon invited him and nine of his friends over to her house, performed the song, swore them to secrecy, and told them who it was about. (In the ensuing wave of publicity, she gave the coy clues that the subject’s name contained the letters E, A, and R—which would eliminate Cat Stevens and Kris Kristofferson, but not Jagger, Beatty, or Taylor.)” Citée par Gavin Edwards sur Rule Forty Two.

Mon anecdote préférée au sujet de “You’re So Vain” de Carly Simon : “After thirty years of keeping the gavotter’s identity a secret, Simon sold the information in 2003 to the high bidder in a charity auction benefiting Martha’s Vineyard Community Services. The winner: Dick Ebersol, the NBC Sports president (and one of the executives behind the launch of “Saturday Night Live”). For $50,000, Simon invited him and nine of his friends over to her house, performed the song, swore them to secrecy, and told them who it was about. (In the ensuing wave of publicity, she gave the coy clues that the subject’s name contained the letters E, A, and R—which would eliminate Cat Stevens and Kris Kristofferson, but not Jagger, Beatty, or Taylor.)” Citée par Gavin Edwards sur Rule Forty Two.

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