“A man walked into the party with a big long scarf. He looked at the mirror, whisked his scarf around his neck and tilted his hat slightly to the left. I thought, ‘Wow, he’s really vain’”: The No 1 song that propelled Carly Simon to stardom

Carly Simon.

Carly Simon was at a party at her sister Joanna’s New York apartment when the person who would become the subject of her most famous song sashayed through the door.

It was 1971, and the 28 year-old singer-songwriter was on the cusp of recording her landmark album No Secrets.