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" You're So Vain " was Simon's breakthrough hit in the United Kingdom, reaching number three on the UK chart on its original release in 1973.
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Three tracks from Boomerang (" Boomerang ", " More Than Anything ", and " Rain ( Falling Down )") and two of the remaining tracks from MMMBop (" Incredible " and " Baby ( You're So Fine )") were released on the first MOE CD sent to fan club members.
With lyrics like " I sang my balls off for you, baby ", " Roll the world over / And give her a kiss and a feel ", and the notorious " You're breaking my heart / You're tearing it apart / So fuck you "- a reference to his ongoing divorce, Nilsson had traveled far afield from his earlier work.
Similarly, his 1990 track " Vane ", which pitted two different versions of the song " You're So Vain " ( the Carly Simon original and a cover by Faster Pussycat ) against each other, was a blueprint for the contemporary pop subgenre, ' glitch pop ' or ' mashup ( music )'.
In 2004 and 2005, Summer's success on the dance charts continued with the songs " You're So Beautiful " and " I Got Your Love ".
* September: One of the hosts of the So You Think You're Funny comedy gala at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe
She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records ; her 13 Top 40 hits include " You're So Vain ", " Nobody Does It Better ", and " Coming Around Again ".
In 1972-1973 Simon scored the biggest success of her career with the classic global smash " You're So Vain ".
" You're So Vain " received Grammy Award nominations for Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female.
In the appearance, she sang two songs: " Half A Chance " and her signature song, " You're So Vain ".
Simon's second-biggest U. S. hit, after " You're So Vain ", was 1977's biggest Adult Contemporary hit, where it held at # 1 for seven straight weeks.
On June 19, 2008, Simon and her son Ben performed " You're So Vain " together on The Howard Stern Show on Sirius Satellite radio.
Meanwhile, in 1981 Divine had embarked on a disco career, producing Hi-NRG tracks, most of which had been written by Bobby Orlando, and went on to achieve chart success with hits like " You Think You're A Man ", " I'm So Beautiful " and " Walk Like a Man ".
Successfully nullifying their contract, they went on to sign with Barry Evangeli's company, InTune Music Limited, for whom Divine released several new disco records, including " You Think You're A Man " and " I'm So Beautiful ", which were both produced by the then-up-and-coming UK production team of Stock Aitken Waterman.
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* Carly Simon's song " You're So Vain " includes the lyric " You had one eye in the mirror as you watched yourself gavotte ".
Similarly, his 1990 track " Vane ", which pitted two different versions of the song " You're So Vain " ( the Carly Simon original and a cover by Faster Pussycat ) against each other, was a blueprint for the contemporary mashup subgenre, glitch pop.
They go on to sing a poor version of You're So Vain, originally by Carly Simon described as " one of their personal favourites " which they alternatively sang as:
However, in a 1993 book Backstage Passes, Angela Bowie claimed to be the " wife of a close friend " mentioned in " You're So Vain ," and that Jagger, for a time, had been " obsessed " with her.
Simon made another comment about the subject's identity as a guest artist on Janet Jackson's 2001 single, " Son of a Gun ( I Betcha Think This Song Is About You )," which sampled " You're So Vain.
With the top bid of $ 50, 000, Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports and a friend of Simon, won the right to know the name of the person " You're So Vain " was written about.
Weller's detailed account of Simon's love affair with guitarist and luthier, Dan Armstrong, provides overwhelming evidence that he was in fact the inspiration for her classic hit, You're So Vain.
In February 2010, Simon told Uncut that the name of the subject was whispered backwards in a re-recording of " You're So Vain ": " There's a little whisper -- and it's the answer to the puzzle.
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Lovingly, she accepted, and so great was my emotion that all I could think of saying was, `` You're amazing, you know ''??
Eventually it became clear to me, partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point out my condescension to me somewhat more directly, that this man, with his condescending, `` You're welcome '', was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor, over these months, on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note, each time, that the healing Christ would be stooping to dispense this succor to the poor sufferer again on the morrow.
The note was propped against his pill bottles and bore a postscript: `` You're not at all well, are you ''??
One example was recorded in 1948, by Buddy Kaye, Fred Wise, Sidney Lippman, and later Perry Como, called A, You're Adorable:
Their initial studio work was marred by a heated disagreement between Bowie and Cambridge over the latter's drumming style ; matters came to a head when Bowie, enraged, accused, " You're fucking up my album.
However, fame was still eluding him, and partly out of desperation, Coppola bought the rights to the David Benedictus novel You're a Big Boy Now and fused it with a story idea of his own, resulting in You're a Big Boy Now ( 1966 ).
Following the success of You're a Big Boy Now, Coppola was offered the reins of the movie version of the Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow, starring Petula Clark, in her first American film, and veteran Fred Astaire.
In November of the same year, the band's first album with Jeepster, ' If You're Feeling Sinister ' was released to critical acclaim.
In 2007, Alexander was a guest star in the third episode of the improv comedy series Thank God You're Here.
His debut was in You're in the Navy Now ( 1951 ), and in 1952 he appeared in several films, including Don Siegel's Duel at Silver Creek, Hangman's Knot, and the war drama Eight Iron Men.
Their next release in 1966, "( You're My ) Soul and Inspiration " was a Phil Spector sound-alike song, produced by Bill Medley, who was able to fully simulate the Spector style of production.
Elizabeth was one of the celebrities on an episode of NBC's Thank God You're Here along with Tom Green, Chelsea Handler, and George Takei.
In the Cowboys ' locker room after the game, flustered CBS reporter Tom Brookshier asked Duane Thomas a long-winded question, the gist of which was " You're fast, aren't you?
Less than two weeks before the game was aired, NBC had shown a Peanuts special, You're In the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown, in which the character Melody-Melody wins the Punt, Pass & Kick contest wearing a Dallas Cowboys uniform.
He even wrote an acoustic ballad, " You're Getting Married One Night ", but when he played it to the rest of the band, it was met with silence.
Paramount Pictures ' Bob Hope was Caught In The Draft, Warner Brothers told Phil Silvers and Jimmy Durante You're In The Army Now, Columbia Pictures put Fred Astaire in the army declaring You'll Never Get Rich, Hal Roach gave his new comedy team of William Tracy and Joe Sawyer Tanks a Million and 20th Century Fox had the former Hal Roach team of Laurel & Hardy going Great Guns.
When the album, Sing When You're Winning was released in August 2000, it topped the charts in many different countries.
When the album Swing When You're Winning ( in reference to his 2000 studio album Sing When You're Winning ) was released in late 2001, it became an instant hit in the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
" You're at 67, 000 feet, 81 miles out " was heard, followed by " 70 miles out now, 36, 000 ft, above glideslope.
In personal terms, Simon was also inspired by the fact of being over 60 years old, an age that he turned in 2001 and that he humorously referred already on his single " Old " from the You're the One.
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