What Made Carly Simon Decide to Marry James Taylor
In the new issue of TIME, music legend Carly Simon discusses Taylor Swift's career  and revealed a surprising story about her own history, "In 1971, I was walking down the street with my sister, we had just crammed Indian food into our mouths and were walking home. And I looked at the cover of TIME Magazine and it was James Taylor, whom I'd never met. And I looked at him from fairly far away, and I said to my sister, I'm gonna marry that man,'" Simon told TIME's Jack Dickey. "What were they thinking?" Simon asked about the cover's psychedelic composition, "But it did have a supernatural quality, at least in getting the message to me. Simon and Taylor, fans will know, married in 1972. They met, according to Rolling Stone, just about a month after Simon would have seen that fateful magazine. The two divorced in 1983. Here's that magical cover, Read the 1971 cover story, here in the TIME Vault The New Rock Bittersweet and Low, Read TIME's new cover story about Taylor Swift The Power of Taylor Swift,