![]() But the façade of a sparkling, creative family papered over tumultuous dynamics at play. ![]() Simon, co-founder of Simon & Schuster, and his wife Andrea, she grew up in comfortable homes in New York City, Connecticut and on Martha’s Vineyard, where her parents’ dinner guests often included the likes of George Gershwin, Benny Goodman and Jackie Robinson. Such piercing poetry, candor and vulnerability have long been the trademarks of Simon’s music, and she brings these qualities to the page in her latest venture, the New York Times bestselling memoir "Boys in the Trees," published last month by Flatiron Books, along with an audiobook read by Simon (with an original score she wrote with composer Teese Gohl) and a companion album titled "Songs from the Trees." A riveting work that stands alongside Patti Smith’s "Just Kids" and Rosanne Cash’s "Composed" as one of the finest music memoirs of the past few years, "Boys in the Trees" chronicles the ghosts that have often acted as both muses and torments for Simon in her creative and personal lives.Īs the third daughter of four children born to the self-made publishing magnate Richard L. Throughout her storied, nearly five-decades-long career as one of our finest singer-songwriters, she has often grappled with the specters of memory, family and relationships in songs like “That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be,” You’re So Vain,” “It Happens Everyday,” and even a more obscure tune titled “Haunting.” Backed by a rising cascade of piano, oboe, harps, drums and a gothic choir, Simon sings-both as gently and as fiercely as a ghost itself-“There’s always someone haunting someone haunting someone.” ![]() Like most artists, Carly Simon is haunted. ![]()
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