I wonder who Carly Simon was singing about

I have read repeatedly that it was Warren Beatty.

Carly was very smart in as much as she was ambiguous as to who the song was referring to.
Remember, at one point, Carly said she was singing about a composite of many men she had known, but later claimed that the song was about openly gay record producer David Geffen.

As smart as Bobby Gentry when she left everyone hanging as to the reason Billy Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

Over 5 decades later we are all still debating these great songs.

Why did Carly Simon sing about Warren Beatty?
The 70-year-old singer told People magazine that she's “confirmed that the second verse is Warren,” one of her ex-lovers in the 1970s. She added that Beatty “thinks the whole thing is about him” – though after years of speculation linking him to the song, that is perhaps not much of a surprise.Nov 19, 2015

Funny thing is that she sings, “You probably think this song is about you,” and it actually is about him!

John Olinger?

I heard that it was Warren Beatty.

warren betty fo sho

Bill Clinton

probably to some main character in one of those old erotic novels by Danielle Steele or something....people are always full of shit like that

The fact she says "I bet you think this song is about you," makes anyone feel it may be in reference to themselves. Tricky..

Someone came up with the name David Geffen some years later.

Yes, I remember this one too!

I can't answer you but I remember it in the charts and it was a great hit

Didn’t someone actually pay Simon to find out whom?

I thought it was Warren.

Mick sings on the song.

Thats already been established. Warren Beatty

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Me.

Warren Beatty or Cat Stevens, I believe, were the favourites. James Taylor came quite a bit later

Warren Beatty, maybe David Geffen and one other guy. Definitely not about James Taylor.

Several sources claim Warren Beatty as the answer

I don't know but I know that song was about me.

I'd always heard it was Taylor

Warren Beatty.

Warren Beatty

James Taylor???