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“If you ever want a home-cooked meal….” she said. She was attracted to Taylor and let him know it. She was performing at the Troubadour in Los Angeles when “Jamie” Taylor came backstage to say hello.

Carly remembers the exact date that she first spoke to her future husband: April 6th, 1971.

But it was not until some six years later that they had so much as a casual conversation.

Taylor first glimpsed his future wife on the Vineyard in the mid-Sixties, as she and her sister, Lucy, performed at the legendary Mooncusser folk club. “Hey, that’s a fine-looking woman,” he said to a friend. He was already living with her when he first saw the cover of her inaugural Carly Simon album (Elektra, 1971). Almost ten years later, after all her albums (with their notoriously erotic covers) and all her hits (some of which James sang on), she still seems doubtful that she was successful in getting his attention. When they first met, it hurt Carly to learn that James was unfamiliar with her music. Underneath it all there’s a tremendous feeling of….” She searches for the right word. What you have here are two people who have made up their minds that they can’t stay together, but who are dedicated to raising their children together. “Sometimes we get along very well and sometimes we don’t get along at all. “I feel as though I have to get on with the rest of my life and that if I start thinking, ‘Well, I’ll wait for James to get it together and wait for us to get back together again,’ then I’m not going to approach my life the same way as I would if I were thinking, ‘Well, that phase of my life is over and now I’m entering a new phase.’ I really demand that of a partner.” She bursts into what is apparently much-needed laughter and then grows serious again, smoothing out her corduroy jeans and pulling her long legs up under her. “Basically, he just wasn’t willing to dress up like Louis XIV before we went to bed every night.

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She smiles weakly, her full lips somehow appearing thin. I need more closeness, more communication. James needs a lot more space around him - aloneness, remoteness, more privacy. “Our needs are different it seemed impossible to stay together. “There are good reasons for the decision,” says a tanned Carly with a pensive nod. The basic bone of contention: Was James ever going to stay home and be a full-time husband and father? Recently, James set up his own residences close to the house on the Vineyard and their apartment in Manhattan so that he could be near their two children: Sarah, 7, and Ben, 4. Both Carly and James were seen in the company of other escorts. The breakup had been imminent for nearly two years.