Carly Simon
From my 1971 scrapbook

The rose

Page 11 of my 1971 scrapbook: me behind a rose, holding the note that came with it, with the handwritten caption beneath.
“i have known you only 3 days, how will i remember you in 10?”

July, 1971. A rose arrived with a note signed the Silver Tongued Devil, and both were pasted into the scrapbook kept of those weeks.

I had known him only three days. This page is yours to keep, and to pass along — the rest of the scrapbook is waiting inside.

Pass it along

Posting the picture itself? Square, for Instagram · the whole page

Behind every song

I keep everything

working tapes, handwritten lyrics, photographs from the studio, coasters and matchboxes from a vanished parade of hotels and restaurants…the works. I’ll be dedicating a room for each one of these twelve songs, a first look experience open to everyone.

One page is already out in the open — the rose , mine to give, yours to pass along.

Elsewhere

Come find me in the other rooms too.

© 2026 Carly Simon. All music, photographs, and writings remain hers — the vault is guarded accordingly.
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