“I mean, who wouldn’t? If a woman didn’t flirt with Mick, it could only mean she had a cold sore or she’d been brushed off by him already.” “Naturally I flirted with Mick,” she wrote.
The instant Simon met the Rolling Stones frontman, she “found him sexy.” She felt powerful around him, and wanted to attract his eyes. I extracted it without inflicting damage.” “Marvin lunged at my face, swept my tongue into his mouth, and began sucking on it. “He replied that he wanted to see something, and would I mind sticking out my tongue?” Simon recalled. She arrived to find him bare-chested and asked if she could get him anything. When Marvin Gaye appeared on the program, Simon was sent to his room to see if he needed anything. “He was extremely polite and not remotely aggressive,” Simon wrote.īefore her solo career took off, Simon worked as a secretary to a producer on a television variety show. The sisters declined the suggestion of a “Simon Sisters Sandwich,” which Connery apparently took just fine. “‘Ah, girls, you’re so beautiful,’ he kept saying. One night, after she’d caught him “gazing” at the sisters’ “long legs,” he proposed the three dance together and “make the most of this night.” Over the remaining days on the trip, Simon writes, Connery squired her and her sister about the boat. Would you come over to our very cozy little room and have a cup of tea or a preprandial cocktail?įifteen minutes later, the phone rang. We understand that you are going to New York to do a Broadway production of the play based on that book. We are both educated college girls, and our father was Richard Simon, who founded Simon & Schuster, the firm that published The Ginger Man by J.P. We are not your ordinary “fans.” We are traveling from London, where we were singing at the Rehearsal Room. My name is Carly Simon and my sister’s name is Lucy. Here are some of the suitors she left behind: And when they got married, “there were a couple of bodies strewn in the wake,” she said with a smile. What she really wanted, she writes, was “that Golden Books image I would chase forever - the apple-pie-cooling-on-the-windowsill, married little wife with her devoted husband and perfect children swinging from the swing that was tied to the old oak in the backyard.”Įventually, she did settle down with Taylor. Any time she slept with a man, she said, she felt she was merely a notch in their belt. Simon recalled not feeling “attractive enough” to have sex. “It was such a different time then,” Simon said in an interview at her home in Martha’s Vineyard over the weekend. “Did sex really have to be as formal as an evening at the opera? Couldn’t some encounters be as casual as a midnight swim?” she asks in her book. She was conflicted about the dalliances, writing in her diary at the time that she hated to think of herself as promiscuous and feared she was “giving self away too cheaply.”Īnd yet it was the ‘60s and ‘70s, a time of sexual liberation.
But before Simon wed Taylor in 1972, she had a string of relationships with some of the decade’s most famous actors and musicians. “Boys in the Trees,” Carly Simon’s new memoir, is largely about her passionate, tumultuous marriage to James Taylor.
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