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...been endlessly analysed since 1972. The narcissistic target of the song is believed to be Warren Beatty, though other culprits might be Mick Jagger, Cat Stevens, Kris Kristofferson or James Taylor. Killer line: "But you gave away the...

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...still quite naive," she sings. The chorus - "You're so vain/ You probably think this song is about you" - is thought to refer to Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger, Kris Kristofferson, James Taylor or a number of others. In 2007 Beatty said, "Let's be...

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Ms. Simon's notorious hit, "You're So Vain," Ms. Weller reports, reflected her "belle of the ball year and a half," during which she "had belt-notched" Cat Stevens, Kris Kristofferson, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty and Mick Jagger. Along...

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...subject include Mick Jagger (who sang uncredited backing vocals on the song), Cat Stevens, Warren Beatty, Kris Kristofferson (with whom she had had brief relationships), the unfaithful fiance William Donaldson and Simon's ex-husband, James...

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...gavotte"). The candidates include Cat Stevens, William Donaldson, Daffy Duck (Simon was a huge fan), Simon's ex-husband James Taylor, Mick Jagger (who sang on the track), Kris Kristofferson, and the prime suspect, Warren Beatty. Simon has...

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...is that it now seems too timid. Most of the running time concerns a low-wattage romance between maverick banker Hubbell Smith (Kris Kristofferson) and movie-star-turned-oil-company-chairwoman Lee Winters (Jane Fonda) with a mystery angle...

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...wrote his song "Sweet Scarlet" about Simon, who also had highly publicized relationships with Warren Beatty, Mick Jagger, Kris Kristofferson, and James Taylor during this period. Simon scored the biggest success of her career with the...

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...eras into the Berry Gordy/Supremes pulling-the-strings kind of thing," said the jet-setting onetime paramour of Warren Beatty and Kris Kristofferson who later married -- then divorced -- folk-rock star James Taylor. This is the same woman who...

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