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CARLY SIMON WAS DRESSED FAIRLY CONSERVATIVELY when she turned up at legendary photographer Norman Seeff\u2019s Los Angeles studio to shoot the cover for her 1975 album Playing Possum. But after a couple of glasses of wine, Seeff posed a provocative question: \u201cWell, don\u2019t you have something on under that?\u201d Simon gamely stripped down to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1629,3262],"tags":[3167,10164,1634,10166],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5343"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5451,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions\/5451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/May-album-cover-encore.jpg\" "\\"May-album-cover-encore\\"")
CARLY SIMON WAS DRESSED FAIRLY CONSERVATIVELY when she turned up at legendary photographer Norman Seeff\u2019s Los Angeles studio to shoot the cover for her 1975 album Playing Possum<\/em>. But after a couple of glasses of wine, Seeff posed a provocative question: \u201cWell, don\u2019t you have something on under that?\u201d Simon gamely stripped down to her black teddy and began dancing around the studio to the Shaft<\/em> soundtrack as Seeff snapped away. \u201cIt was a matter of being caught in the moment,\u201d she recalled later. \u201cI was dancing, I was all over the place.\u201d As racy as it appears, the shot eventually chosen for the cover had a fairly innocent origin. \u201cThere was no eroticism intended,\u201d Seeff said. \u201cCarly was in the process of a yoga exercise while I spontaneously photographed her.\u201d Simon, who had recently given birth to her first daughter, nonetheless felt the photo sent the message that she would not sacrifice her sexuality. \u201cI thought it was pretty hot, actually,\u201d she said. \u201cLooking at myself I thought, \u2018My god, I had a baby four months ago. That doesn\u2019t go along exactly with the image of new motherhood.\u2019 But I liked it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"