The song "Black Velvet" is about Elvis

keavdog

What a great song.  Alannah Myles has some great pipes.  I figured that out (EDIT: the Elvis thing) years ago just listening to the lyrics.  Iiiiif you please.

 

wpwar11

However, I don't think Carly ever told us.

Warren apparently gets the second verse; MJ...and perhaps others..probably get equal billing:

https://entertainment.ie/music/carly-simon-finally-confirms-who-inspired-youre-so-vain-or-at-least-part-of-it-260877/

littletimmy

There was a contest several years ago, where the winner got the Initials of the person Carly was singing about ( She personally whispered the initials to the winner) 

Those initials were ...

 M   J  

( not Michale Jackson )

Pretty sure she meant, Mick Jagger.

 

What a great song.  Alannah Myles has some great pipes.  I figured that out (EDIT: the Elvis thing) years ago just listening to the lyrics.  Iiiiif you please.

There was a contest several years ago, where the winner got the Initials of the person Carly was singing about ( She personally whispered the initials to the winner) 

Those initials were ...

 M   J  

( not Michale Jackson )

Pretty sure she meant, Mick Jagger.

You're So Vain.  It's been rumored it's Warren Beatty.   However, I don't think Carly ever told us.

wpwar11

Now if we just knew who that Carly Simon song is about 

 

Or the play on words of that song title by Queens of the Stone Age...You're So Vague.

"You're so vague, that you probably think this song ain't about you."

Knew about the Alannah Myles song...its packed full of Elvis references.

Anticipation?  You're So Vain?  Nobody Does It Better?

That last one is Roger Moore.  Not Sean Connery, Roger Moore.  Mysterious.  Like, I wonder where the whiskey went...  

I thought Black Velvet was just a mood piece, about a woman and a hot sultry night in Memphis.

Now if we just knew who that Carly Simon song is about