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For years, followers have questioned who Mr ‘So Useless’ is in Carly Simon’s hit ’70s breakup tune.

So may you consider that Warren Beatty is the star that is “so useless” he thinks the tune is about him?

Beatty has only recently fallen into controversy after he was accused of an alleged historic sexual abuse incident in opposition to a toddler throughout the ’70s, which he has, on the time of publishing, not addressed publicly. Simon has no connection to this incident. You possibly can learn extra right here.

However, after releasing You are So Useless again in 1972, Carly Simon shot to fame.

And for the 50 years since, (it is the tune’s fiftieth anniversary this yr), she’s been persistently requested who’s the person on the centre of the tune.

Beatty, now 85, has been probably the most possible contender, after Simon launched a brand new model of the tune a yr later, that featured a back-masked whisper.

Followers have been positive that the identify they heard whispered on the brand new model was “Warren”.

However over time, Simon hasn’t accomplished a lot to assist her followers with their problem-solving.

In a 1983 interview with The Washington Put up she mentioned, “It actually sounds prefer it was about Warren Beatty.

“He actually thought it was about him – he referred to as me and mentioned, ‘Thanks for the tune.'”

Then in 2015, Simon admitted the second verse was about Beatty.

“You had me a number of years in the past after I was nonetheless fairly naïve / Effectively you mentioned that we made such a fairly pair / And that you’d by no means depart / However you gave away the belongings you liked and certainly one of them was me,” the verse reads.

The pair have been reportedly linked within the early ’70s.

However Simon additionally instructed Individuals Journal, “that does not imply the opposite two verses are additionally Warren”.

Later in life, Simon revealed that her No. 1 hit is definitely about three males, together with Beatty. She hasn’t named the others.

Simon was beforehand married to James Taylor, and has been linked to Mick Jagger, Kris Kristofferson, Jack Nicholson and Cat Stevens.