![]() Dolly Parton is in your class in the Hall of Fame. Mick Jagger also told me he thought I was a rock & roll singer. When I first started to work with Richard Perry and made No Secrets, he said, “You’re much more of a rock singer than a folk singer.” When I made the album, I felt that that was kind of a stretch, but it wasn’t difficult to make the stretch. I can’t place you, and therefore, I don’t think the public would have an easy time being able to relate to you.” And that made that made sense to me, even though it upset me. I don’t know if you’re a rock & roll singer or a blues singer or a Broadway singer or a folk singer. I sent my demo to Jerry Ragovoy, who was a record producer and wrote “Piece of My Heart.” He wrote me back saying, “I just don’t know who you are. In my case, I thought, “Well, this is confirmation that I’m not very good.” I realized that when I was first starting out writing songs. People are prone to a lot of feelings about themselves, not all of which are positive. But anyway, that was a theory of mine for a while. Not necessarily putting me in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but somehow just reaching out to me and saying, “I have this new thing called the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. I had known Jann prior to all the years where he was in charge, and I didn’t understand why he was so obviously alien to me, or why he didn’t reach out to me in some way. ![]() It’s a great scene in an otherwise terrible movie. You have a theory you were shut out because Jann Wenner was mad about the scene in Perfect where you threw a drink in John Travolta’s face. But I’ve forgotten about wanting it, or feeling that I deserved it, or feeling anything about it at all. What a surprise, my God! I was mad earlier on, when I was more in the public eye and I thought I would have gotten in. I mean, I’ve been mad for years over this. Simon spoke to RS about getting into the Hall of Fame, the upcoming film adaptation to her 2015 memoir Boys in the Trees, and the 50th anniversary of No Secrets.Ĭongratulations on the Hall of Fame! This is insanely overdue. “It’s a long process of healing,” she says. Simon is calling from her home in Martha’s Vineyard, where she’s just had chiropractic treatment for her second knee replacement, as well as a massage. “Somebody bought me a space on the Walk of Fame, so I got confused with that. It must be the House of Pancakes I just got into,'” says Simon, 76. “There’s that first thought of, ‘I don’t believe it. for the 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, where she’s finally being inducted after being eligible since 1996. In 1989, she made another momentous trip there, this time to attend the Academy Awards, where “Let the River Run,” from Working Girl, won her a Best Original Song trophy. In 1971, she forced herself to board a plane to Los Angeles for her first-ever show at the Troubadour, where she opened for Cat Stevens. ![]() Carly Simon has faced her fear of flying before. ![]()
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