Nick Carter is gearing up to release a song about his late brother, Aaron Carter.
Music industry sources told TMZ Monday (January 9th) that the Backstreet Boy got to work on the song shortly after Aaron passed in November and it's a "very emotional track."
According to Nick's social media account, his new single will drop on Wednesday (January 11th).
Olivia Rodrigo is teaming up with Sour producer Dan Nigro to create new music.
The "drivers license" singer posted a clip of the two rocking out at a piano on her Instagram Story Sunday (January 8th) night.
She captioned the video with, "Working on so many new songs I'm excited to show u! thank you for everything."
Ozzy Osbourne admitted he's nervous for his family's big to return to TV. Following the massive success 20 years ago of the MTV hit The Osbournes, the clan will be featured once again in the upcoming ten-part 30-minute BBC reality series, Home To Roost, which focuses on the family's move back to Britain. The new series will also air on BBC One and iPlayer.
During a chat with The Mirror, Ozzy said, "I don't know how The Kardashians have done it for so long -- it sent us crazy at the end.I am not sorry I did it, but after three or four years I said, 'Do you know what, we're going to lose somebody because it is getting too crazy.' There is rock n' roll fame, which is pretty intense, but that Osbourne level was just unbelievable. The kids paid for it. They all ended up doing drugs. Jack got clean and sober on that show, Kelly messed up on that show, I was messed up and Sharon got cancer."
On his SiriusXM show Ozzy went on to say, "I always wanted to know what it would have been like when Beatlemania was around. I had that with The Osbournes, let me tell you. I remember going into McDonald's for a pee. When I came out of the bathroom the whole restaurant was outside screaming at me."
Ozzy told us a while back that he has never felt comfortable seeing himself on television: "I gotta be honest, I'm not really keen on TV. I mean, I must have watched, like, two episodes of The Osbournes. I just don't like watching myself on TV, I feel geeky."
Harry Styles revealed Monday (January 9th) that Wet Leg will open for his rescheduled Love on Tour dates in Los Angeles.
The Grammy winner was forced to cancel several dates at the Kia Forum in November because he became sick with the flu.
He will make up for the lost shows by performing on January 26th through 29th.
Bruce Springsteen fans were surprised to hear that "The Boss's" ongoing archival series is being put on hold due to his upcoming E Street Band tour dates. Backstreets magazine -- the unofficial source for all Springsteen news -- shared the official message stating: "With opening night of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's 2023 tour less than a month away, the Live Archive series will pause regular monthly releases and turn its attention to new shows."
The series, which has provided high-end, professionally mixed soundboard recordings from Springsteen's shows from 1975 through to the present, will be put on ice, while fans will have the opportunity to purchase concerts from the E Street Band's current dates via nugs.net.
The new live sets will be mixed by fan favorite Jon Altschiller, who's long been in charge of the series' monthly releases. The upcoming recordings will include Springsteen's upcoming 31-show U.S. tour that launches in February, and the 31-show European leg that starts in April.
During a recent chat with The Bellissimo Files, Bruce Springsteen explained the feelings behind what it takes to be a performing entertainer: "The stage is a unique place; it's pretend, first of all. So, you're making believe -- though, you're trying to experience and communicate authentic emotion. And you present a picture of a world and a life that your audience enters with you, where you communicate and experience a set of common values and dreams and interests with the people that you've been in conversation with for 40, or 45 years -- or with some of them, only five years, or for the first time that night."
Lady Gaga and Sully Erna were once an item.
Godsmack drummer Shannon Larkin told the 2020'd podcast, "Yea, that's true. And that's not, I don't think, a secret. I don't think Sully would bum out if people knew he dated Lady Gaga. I mean, she's hot, and she's mega talented."
According to Larkin, "It was a brief thing," and Erna only told his friends and the band because he's not "flashy" like Tommy Lee or Travis Barker. He's an "and East Coast guy."
It was 54 years ago today (January 10th, 1969) that George Harrison temporarily quit the Beatles. The group, who was filming their Let It Be movie in London's cavernous Twickenham Film Studios, had been rife with tension as they prepared to work up a set of new material for their proposed return to the concert stage. Harrison wasn't the first Beatle to quit the band, with Ringo Starr walking out the previous August during the group's sessions for The Beatles, commonly referred to as the "White Album."
Although it's been thought that Harrison's was annoyed with Paul McCartney's domination during the rehearsals -- dubbed by fans as the "Get Back" sessions -- Harrison was equally peeved at John Lennon, who at this point was barely communicating to the band and letting his soon-to-be wife Yoko Ono speak for him in group matters. Harrison later went on record stating he was frustrated because he had a growing backlog of new material, but constantly had to work on Lennon and McCartney's songs before the group could begin rehearsing his.
After running through a few songs that day, including a brief rendition of the group's "All Together Now" and "Get Back," Harrison nonchalantly announced that he was leaving the band immediately and sarcastically told them as he walked out, "See you around the clubs."
George Harrison explained that the Beatles regrouping in January 1969 before the cameras was a "worst case scenario" situation for him: "I just spent, like the last six months producing an album of this fella named Jackie Lomax and hanging out with Bob Dylan and the Band in Woodstock -- and having a great time. And for me to come back into the winter of discontent with the Beatles in Twickenham (Film Studios) was, it was very unhealthy and unhappy."
After the announcement, filming was halted. According to authors Doug Sulpy and Ray Schweighard, who documented existing tapes of the sessions for their book Drugs, Divorce And A Slipping Image: The Unauthorized Story Of The Beatles' "Get Back" Sessions, once the tapes began running again, Lennon ironically led the group through a run-through of the Who's "A Quick One While He's Away."
Before departing for the weekend, Lennon half-joked that the group should replace Harrison with either Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix, and that the Beatles' publicists should announce Harrison's departure to the British trades. Interestingly, it was Harrison who broke the news of the rift to the British press, yet refused to do so in any great detail.
Author Ritchie Unterberger chronicled the dozens of hours of Let It Be tapes for his book The Unreleased Beatles. He says that many of Harrison's songs didn't fit stylistically with the group's other material: "They tried 'All Things Must Pass' a lot. I mean, they almost tried to record it as much, in terms of total versions as they did something like 'Don't Let Me Down.' George at this point, he was reaching a high as a songwriter. A lot of the material he was writing (and) they were even trying out, ended up on (his solo album) All Things Must Pass. And somehow the feel of his compositions, they weren't as natural for a Beatles arrangement as 'Here Comes The Sun' or 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps.'"
After Harrison failed to show up for the sessions on January 13th, 14th or 15th, a band meeting was held at Ringo's house, where they urged Harrison to come back and complete the project. Harrison agreed to re-join the band under the condition they give up on the idea of a live concert, and move the filming to the Beatles' new studio in their Apple headquarters.
The band re-grouped in front of the cameras again -- with the addition of old friend, keyboardist Billy Preston -- on January 22nd.
It was 66 years ago today (January 10th, 1956), that Elvis Presley recorded his first Number One hit, "Heartbreak Hotel." The song, its B-side "I Was The One," and several other tunes were recorded in Nashville at Elvis' first RCA recording session, just two days after his 21st birthday. The previous November, RCA Records had bought his existing Sun Records contract for a whopping $40,000 -- $5,000 of which went straight to Elvis as a signing bonus.
The music to "Heartbreak Hotel" was written by Mae Boren Axton -- mother of country songwriter Hoyt Axton -- with lyrics by Tommy Durden. Durden was inspired to write the lyrics after reading a newspaper account of a man who left behind a suicide note containing the phrase: "I walk a lonely street." As was the case with many hits of the 1950's, Elvis' name was added as both a courtesy and incentive for recording the song -- which also ensured that he received a third of the song's royalties.
"Heartbreak Hotel" featured Elvis' usual band at the time, with Bill Black on double bass, Scotty Moore on lead guitar, and D.J. Fontana on drums, along with country legends Floyd Cramer on piano and Chet Atkins on guitar. The single was rush-released on January 27th, 1956 and went on to become Elvis Presley's first million-seller.
We asked the late, great D.J. Fontana, who ultimately decided on the rhythm of Elvis' classic '50s singles: "Well, sometimes I would -- sometimes Elvis would count it off the way he felt it. So it was a mixture of different guys and sometimes (guitarist) Scotty (Moore) would do it, just according to what kind of mood we was (laughs) all in, y'know? But it seemed like it all, it all turned out good for some reason. Who knows? Y'know what, those things happen."
During his 2012 keynote address at Austin's South By Southwest music festival, Bruce Springsteen recalled seeing Elvis Presley debut on The Ed Sullivan Show on September 9th, 1956: "It was the evening that I realized that a white man could create magic. That you did not have to be constrained by your upbringing, by the way you looked, or by the social context that oppressed you. You could call upon your own powers of imagination, and you could create a transformative self. A certain type of transformative self that perhaps at any other moment in American history might've seemed difficult, if not impossible."
When Elvis returned to live performances in 1969, "Heartbreak Hotel" was one of the few '50s numbers included in his act. He continued performing the song sporadically through 1974.
Peter Gabriel has dropped "Panopticom," the first single from his upcoming album, titled i/o. Gabriel said in the press release, "The first song is based on an idea I have been working on to initiate the creation of an infinitely expandable accessible data globe: The Panopticom. We are beginning to connect a like-minded group of people who might be able to bring this to life, to allow the world to see itself better and understand more of what's really going on."
According to the announcement: "The lyric is, in part, inspired by the extraordinary work of three groups, Forensic Architecture, Bellingcat and the Gabriel co-founded pioneering human rights organization WITNESS." The legendary Brian Eno contributed the "haunting electronics" to "Panopticom."
"Panopticom" is Gabriel's first new track since offering up "The Veil" for Oliver Stone's 2016 film, Snowden. i/o marks Gabriel's first mainstream, all-original new album since 2002's Up collection. No release date has been announced for i/o, but Gabriel plans to issue a new track off the set to coincide with every upcoming full moon.
Peter Gabriel, told us that over the course of his career, it keeps both him and his work fresh to constantly dip his toe into new, creative waters: "I love to have both unfamiliar and familiar elements in my work, so that you hopefully feel you've got some reference points, but it's different, and strange, and mysterious, if I'm lucky."
The completed inner-workings of Journey continue to make headlines as former-frontman Steve Perry has dropped his legal claim against the band's corporate entity for trademarking the titles to 20 of its songs. Guitarist Neal Schon posted on a social media the letter he'd received from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, which states, quote, "Petitioner, without the written consent of Respondent, filed a withdrawal of the petition for cancellation on January 4, 2023. . . In view thereof. . . the petition for cancellation is denied with prejudice." This means that Perry cannot file that same suit again against the corporation.
Ultimate Classic Rock reported that Schon not only teased that the end of the legal skirmish might signal some type of reconnection between the estranged former-bandmates, but took the opportunity to slam keyboardist Jonathan Cain, posting: "So much for (Cain) trying to throw me under the bus as he claimed I was blatantly trying to rip off (Perry) while collecting the checks for the very diligent work my wife and I did to protect our Merch. Time for coffee."
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According to a December 12th cease and desist letter uncovered by The New York Post, in addition to recently filing suit against Jonathan Cain -- Neal Schon has issues with Cain's wife.
According to Schon's complaint, Paula White-Cain -- Cain's minister wife and Donald Trump's personal spiritual advisor -- has been accused of "allegedly giving herself access to the band's bank accounts without Schon's knowledge or consent."
The complaint, which claims that White-Cain's signatures appear "as an authorized signatory" on the band's account, goes on to state: "We further demand that you immediately cease and desist and refrain in the future from inserting yourself in any business of the band and any legal entities used by the band as this contradicts the existing agreement between Mr. Schon and Mr. Cain." (The New York Post)
Rihanna's musical director Adam Blackstone has opened up about the singer's upcoming halftime show. He told Rolling Stone, "It's been cool. . . . The thing about Rihanna is that she's so creative. She is boundary-pushing at all times, so it's going to be unlike anything you've ever seen before, and we always try to push the envelope with her."
He added, "This is her first time coming back as Rihanna, the artist. She knows that her career has expanded different sonic palletes, from EDM to pop to hip-hop to ballads, so we want to try to give a little bit to everybody."
It was 60 years ago today (January 9th, 1963) that the late, great Charlie Watts joined the Rolling Stones replacing drummer Tony Chapman. Watts -- who was strictly a jazz drummer -- held a day job as a graphic designer for the ad company Charles, Hobson and Gray when he took the gig drumming for British blues icon Alexis Korner's group Blues Incorporated. Through Korner, he met Mick Jagger who often sat in with the band.
Watts' first show with the Stones took place just three days later on January 12th, 1963 at London's Ealing Blues Club, featuring Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman -- and co-founding keyboardist -- and later road manager, Ian Stewart. Watts remained the Rolling Stones' drummer until his death from cancer on August 24th, 2021 at the age of 80.
Charlie Watts said that it never crossed his mind that the Stones would ever make it -- let along become rock's longest lasting rock bands: "No, every band I'd ever been in lasted a week. I mean, you only lasted as long as the guy in the club, or whatever, would book you for. So, y'know, if they didn't like you, y'know, it was two gigs and that was it. So I always thought it's gonna last a week, then a fortnight, and suddenly it's 30 years."
Charlie Watts believed that had it never been for the Stones, he would've remained safe and sound in his jazz-based world: "Keith Richards taught me rock n' roll. We had nothing to do all day, but we'd just play these records over and over again, and I learned to love people like Muddy Waters and people like that, through an intensive three-year crash course, you might say. And Keith turned me on to how good Elvis Presley was. I use to hate him until then. Elvis was, like, the least sort of person I'd ever want. . . I mean, Miles Davis was more what I would -- that's what I consider someone. Not Elvis, y'know?"
Metallica has brought back its archival online streaming service. The band has begun running rare performances from its "Black Album" era via nugs.net. Metallica sent an email to fans announcing the revamped series, writing, "With help from the archivists at The Metallica Black Box, our friends at nugs.net are bringing back the 'Wherever We May Roam' livestream series from a year ago."
Loudwire reported, "The series will feature 10 concerts that span 1991-1993; a 'new' concert will debut every Monday and Sunday for five weeks."
According to the announcement: "If you remember these shows, you know they aren't the polished productions you'll find today. This standard definition footage comes from Betacam tapes with the occasional camera dropout, and the audio is straight from the soundboard. But these shows aren't just a time capsule from the '90s anymore; they've gotten some modern upgrades, including a new, extended edit and mastered audio by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering."
"The Black Album" was Metallica's biggest commercial breakthrough, producing five singles and making them one of the most popular rock bands in the world. Former-bassist Jason Newsted told us that at the time, Metallica was eager to make a big leap forward: "Everybody was ready. We pulled in somebody that could control us for a second and harness us for a second. That transpired. Everybody put their nose to the stone and worked hard, like Metallica always did, and then we got the fruits from it. Years later, it's still, well, maybe is the biggest selling album in America for, I don't know, for a long time."
Lizzo wants to play the flute for Adele one day.
The Yitty founder told the Sunday Mirror that the "Hello" singer offered her support early in her career.
Lizzo told the outlet, "When she first came out the culture was so different, and especially with social media. Adele called me and was like, ‘Lizzo, how do you f***ing do it? Are you okay? Do you want to come over and drink some wine? Do you want to talk?' And I was like, ‘Yeah…'"
When asked if they'd ever collaborate, the "About Damn Time" singer said, "We've never talked about that. You know, what I'd do with Adele is play the flute. I'd play flute as she is that kind of artist."
LEWIS CAPALDI HAS SECRET PSEUDONYMS FOR SONG WRITING: Lewis Capaldi has secret pseudonyms he uses for songwriting credits on songs he considers to be "duds." He said in an appearance on The Graham Norton Show Friday (January 6th) that he uses the names Anita Jobby and Sooka Phatwan because most of the songs he writes for others are "tragic failures."
SHAWN MENDES DEBUTS BUZZCUT: Shawn Mendes has a new look. Page Six reports that the "Treat You Better" singer recently traded in his signature curls for a buzzcut. Photographers managed to get photos of the 24-year-old's new haircut when he stepped out to a café in Los Angeles.
Sam Smith will drop the third single from their fourth studio album, Gloria, on January 11th.
According to an Instagram post from the singer, "Gimme" will feature Jessie Reyes and Koffee.
Gloria will be released on January 27th.
There's no bad blood between SZA and Taylor Swift.
Rumors of a rivalry flooded the internet when the two both released albums in 2022, but the "Nobody Gets Me" singer set things straight on Twitter Friday (January 6th).
She wrote, "Uhh I feel silly that I even have to say this but i see supporters arguing and I hate that . I don't have beef w ANYONE especially not Taylor lmao I genuinely loved her album and the writing! Everyone's jus tryna do their BEST as we all should . LOVE TO EVERYONE. Gn"
Sunday -- January 8th -- marks what would've been David Bowie's 76th birthday. Bowie died on January 10th, 2016 -- just two days after his 69th birthday. His death followed a private 18-month battle with cancer, and according to reports from insiders in the Bowie camp, the music legend died from liver cancer, after suffering from a handful heart attacks in recent years. Bowie was survived by his wife of 23 years, supermodel Iman, his son, movie director Duncan Jones, and his daughter with Iman, Alexandria.
Out now is the critically acclaimed Brett Morgen-directed Bowie documentary, Moonage Daydream. Morgen, who's best known for such films of The Kid Stays In The Picture, Cobain: Montage Of Heck, and Jane, was quoted by Rolling Stone as saying, "You know, there might be a few things in Moonage Daydream that the estate isn't happy to have in there. But they gave me final cut, and never told me I had to include this song or that, or make any changes. Right from the start, it was: This isn't David's film. He's not going to see it. This is David Bowie by Brett Morgen. Make it yours."
Recently released is the new book, Bowie 75, which examines the rock legend's life and career through 75 distinct images. The 208-page book is priced at $75. According to the announcement, "Author Martin Popoff guides your through all of Bowie's 27 studio albums, various singles, working with artists like Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Tina Turner, and Queen; collaborations with legendary guitarists, Mick Ronson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Nile Rodgers and Earl Slick. Plus, film and television roles, live performances and more."
Long-time fan, and Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott told us David Bowie's 1980 Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) album inspired most of the music that came out of Britain throughout the remainder of the decade: "When you take the Scary Monsters period, which was probably Bowie's' last big artistic statement, because with Let's Dance, I think it just became a commercial -- I wouldn't say 'sell out' -- but it was a commercial success he never achieved in the past. But it was more based on 'normal'; all of a sudden, Bowie's wearing a tie and a suit and bleachin' his hair blonde and having it short. But Scary Monsters, with things like 'Ashes To Ashes' -- you can see where Duran Duran got a lot of their stuff from, and even Spandau Ballet, who would come later on."
In 1983, David Bowie shed light on how and why the character of "Ziggy Stardust" came to exist: "I think I was quite happy to buy into the idea of reinvention, up until the beginning of the '80s, really. When I was a teenager, I had it in my mind that I would be a creator of musicals -- I sincerely wanted to write musicals for the West End and for Broadway, whatever. I didn't see much further than that -- as a writer. And I really had the idea in my head that people would do my songs. And I was not a natural performer; I didn't feel at ease onstage -- ever. And I had created this one character -- 'Ziggy Stardust' -- that it seemed that I would be the one who played him, because nobody else was doing my songs and the chance of my getting a musical mounted were very slim, and so, I became 'Ziggy Stardust' for that period." (40 OC: . . . for that period)
David Bowie explained that his late-1970's work with producer Brian Eno forever shaped the way he thought about songs and music: "The whole idea of using a recording studio as an instrument, of not necessarily thinking that you have to be prepared totally before you go in; that accidents will happen and sometimes planned accidents work our really well. If there's a bad note, you can layer that note several times with other instruments and suddenly that bad note sounds like an extraordinary piece of arrangement."
Although David Bowie will always be best remembered for pushing the creative envelope, until the end he tried to bear witness and give a voice to the plight of the world he saw around him: "Some kind of statement or indictment of an uncaring society, or particularly the response to what's happening in terms of the homeless, people who are totally uncared for in terms of education or being fed properly, or housed properly. There's such a diversity of political stance, where the high powered authority seem to be far more concerned with their relations with Russia or the Middle East and the whole idea of what's happening at home, on the streets with the indigenous people seems to be swept under the carpet."
Only days before his death in 1980, John Lennon looked back fondly on his brief -- but powerful -- 1975 collaboration with David Bowie, which resulted in Bowie's first U.S. chart-topper, "Fame" "Bowie was around and we were talkin' and that -- he'd say, 'Come down,' and I found myself doin' that. So, he's fiddlin' round, he writes 'em in the studio. Y'know, he goes in with about four words and a few guys and stars layin' down this stuff. And he has virtually nothing -- he's makin' it up in the studio. So, I just contributed whatever I contributed, y'know? Like, backwards piano and (sings) 'oooh,' and a couple of things -- repeat of 'Fame.' And then we needed a middle-eight, so we took some Stevie Wonder middle-eight and did it backwards (laughs), y'know -- we made a record out of it, right? So, he got his first Number One -- so I felt that was, like, a karmic thing, y'know, with me and Elton (John) I got my first Number One (with 'Whatever Gets You Through The Night') and I passed it on to Bowie and he got his first Number One -- and I like that track, y'know?"
In 2003, Bowie spoke about mortality during a rare TV appearance on Britain's Parkinson talk show: (David Bowie): "I had this poetic, romantic, kind of juvenile idea that I would be dead by 30. 'Cause that's -- all artists think: 'I'll be dead by 30! Y'know, I'm going to get TB and die.' (Laughs) But you don't, y'know, you get past it and then suddenly, you're 30 and you're 40 and then you're 50 and 57, and then all that. And it's a new land, y'know?" (Parkinson): 'Sure." (Bowie): "I'm a pioneer -- me and my kind are just sort of scraping the edge of what this think is about, being a rock and roller at the age of 57. But my revenge is all these bands that are below us, they've got to do this -- so, they kind of say: 'Yeah, they're like, really old' -- but secretly they're thinking, 'I better watch how he does it, 'cause I'm gonna get there soon (laughter).'"
On Wednesday (1-5) Sam Smith announced, GLORIA The Tour. This marks the artists' first North American run since 2018.
The 27-city headline arena tour will kick off on July 25 at in Miami, Florida and include shows at New York City's Madison Square Garden as well as The Forum in Inglewood, California.
Jessie Reyez, who guests on Smith's forthcoming album, also titled Gloria, will be the special guest on all dates except one.
Tickets go on sale to the general public on January 13.
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Bruce Springsteen has just issued East Rutherford, NJ - July 18th, 1999 -- a special holiday / year-end official bootleg in his ongoing monthly archive series. The concert, which was culled his 1999/2000 reunion tour with the E Street Band, marks the seventh pick from the historic tour, with the previous shows being Philadelphia - September 25th, 1999; Chicago - September 30th, 1999; Los Angeles - October 23, 1999; Anaheim - May 22nd, 2000, New York City - June 27th, 2000; and New York City - July 1st, 2000.
Highlights include the then-recently released Tracks tunes as the opener "I Wanna Be With You" and "Loose Ends" -- with the then-new "Land Of Hope And Dreams" dedicated to the Kennedy and Bessette families follwoing John F. Kennedy Jr.'s fatal plane crash. Also included is a take on Jimmy Cliff's "Trapped," the rarely-performed autobiograpical "In Freehold" and the legendary "Glory Days" B-side, "Stand On It."
Bruce Springsteen looked back on the reunion tour after a decade apart from the band as being one of the most meaningful of his career: "The nicest thing about it was that we were able to reconstitute the band as an ongoing, sort of creative unit, y'know? And I think that it was a great time for all of us -- that was a big, big, part of our own lives, y'know? And of our audience's lives -- and we wanted to live up to that thing, and we wanted to continue to serve in the fashion that we served before."
Miley Cyrus promised a big announcement this week and she did not disappoint. She posted that her eighth studio album Endless Summer Vacation will be released on March 10.
She even shared about a minute of new music through a video clip made up mostly of faded, vintage-looking shots of pool water, blue skies and palm trees. Throughout it, you hear her speaking about meeting someone special for the first time. in the recitation she says, "We danced until there was nothing else cause that's all we knew."
The cover was also revealed, which features Cyrus in a black unitard, sunglasses and heels, swinging from a trapeze bar against a deep blue background.
According to a press release, the album was recorded in Los Angeles.
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It was 50 years ago today (January 6th, 1973) that Carly Simon scored her sole chart-topper to date, when "You're So Vain" hit Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first of three weeks.
The song, which was produced by Richard Perry and included on Simon's 1972 third album No Secrets, featured solo Beatles sideman Klaus Voormann playing the distinctive bass part, Jim Gordon from Derek & The Dominos on drums, and Jimmy Ryan on guitars. Mick Jagger sang the instantly identifiable backing vocal.
Throughout the years Simon has refused to say publicly who exactly "You're So Vain" was written about and has sometimes said that it was a composite of several different men. She has confirmed that the second verse was indeed about actor Warren Beatty -- but not the entire song.
At the 2003 Possible Dreams charity auction in Martha's Vineyard, Simon auctioned off the identity of the person who "You're So Vain" was about. NBC's Dick Ebersol had the winning bid of $50,000 and learned the secret -- but was sworn to secrecy by Simon, as part of the deal. Simon has also reportedly revealed to both Taylor Swift and Howard Stern who the song is about.
Carly Simon recalled recording the backing vocals to "You're So Vain" with Mick Jagger and Harry Nilsson: "Y'know, Harry and I were in there, we were doing it, it didn't quite have the right character, because it wasn't tough. I didn't ask Mick to come over because I needed a tough voice. Mick just showed up, and so we invited him to join us. And so the three of us were singing it together. And it sounded too sweet. The three-part harmony didn't work, but Harry was the first to notice it, and Harry said, 'Well, why don't the two of you try it together?' Y'know that's how it happened -- but more than anything Harry wanted to go out and have a drink (laughs)."
Billie Eilish posted her stripped down version of Ben Folds' song, "Still."
The intimate, self-shot video shows her sitting at a piano in a room lit only by the white lights of a Christmas tree in the background.
She delivered a very delicate version of the 2006 song. It was part of the soundtrack for the animated film Over The Hedge.
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