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Singer-songwriter Carly Simon photographed in June 1971.
Jack Mitchell/Getty ImagesCarly Simon, the folk singer-songwriter who spent her childhood in Stamford, will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Simon joins Dolly Parton, Eminem, Lionel Ritchie, Eurythmics, Duran Duran and Pat Benatar, as the inductees for 2022.
"You’re up there and it’s a collection of names. But it’s an honor and it’s like any other honor. You’ve got something to show for it in your dreams," Simon said in a video with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. "For the rest of your life, you’re going to be dreaming about it, and you’re going to feel maybe silently proud. You pat yourself on the back."
Simon is known for her string of folk and pop-rock hits of the 1970s including "Nobody Does It Better," which became the theme song for the James Bond movie "The Spy Who Loved Me," and "You're So Vain," which ranked in Rolling Stone's "500 Best Songs of All Time."
In her 2015 memoir, "Boys in the Trees," Simon detailed her upbringing in a "rambling Georgian mansion" in Stamford. Simon spent her childhood split between the Stamford estate and a townhouse in Greenwich Village. Simon is one of four children of Richard L. Simon, the co-founder of publishing giant Simon and Schuster.
Simon discussed a number of famous guests who visited her Stamford home in her memoir, including Benny Goodman, Albert Einstein and Eleanor Roosevelt. At one point, Jackie Robinson, who broke the baseball color barrier, and his family, stayed at the Simons' home during the construction of their Stamford home.
Simon's Stamford estate is now part of the King's School campus.
The singer-songwriter's affinity for Connecticut was forever immortalized on her 1985 album, "Spoiled Girl," with the song "The Wives Are in Connecticut." The song, which delves into a couple moving to Connecticut to escape their former lives, mentions a number of Connecticut towns including Fairfield, New London, Mystic, New Canaan, New Haven and Bristol.
Over the years, Simon has performed sporadic shows throughout the state, with the last concert being in 2005 at the Cheverlot Theatre (now Toyota Oakdale Theatre) in Wallingford, according to setlist.fm.
In 2016, Simon came back to the Nutmeg State to share some of her memoir in an event in Madison.
Simon and the others will be inducted into the Hall of Fame officially in a ceremony in Los Angeles on Nov. 5.