Carly Simon has performed an extra, fourth verse of You're So Vain for the first time in a new BBC documentary.
"You're So Vain" remains one of music's greatest mysteries,the singer has revealed her never-before-heard fourth verse to the 1972 single that could shine more light on the unknown target.
The star plays the lost stanza sitting at her home piano, hesitating as she tries to make the words fit the melody.
"This is a verse that I haven't ever sung," she explains. "I wrote it a while ago on a pad, but it never made it into the song."
But the lyrics do not reveal the subject of the song, whose identity remains one of rock's biggest riddles. Over the past 45 years, Simon has been steadfast in her refusal to disclose who "You're So Vain" is about, but it's likely a composite of different men the singer-songwriter encountered.
"A friend of yours revealed to me / That you'd loved me all the time," sings Simon, who is now 71.
"[You] kept it secret from your wives / You believed it was no crime."
The lyrics were previously printed in Simon's 2015 memoir, Boys In The Trees, but she has never before sung the verse.
The clip comes from the latest episode of the BBC's Classic Albums series, which looks at Simon's 1972 album No Secrets.
You're So Vain was the album's first single and introduced a rockier sound for the singer-songwriter - something she initially resisted.
"I didn't really like the direction of the record," she says in the documentary, explaining that she "fought" producer Richard Perry "all the way", until she first heard You're So Vain on the radio in a New York taxi cab.
"It sounded so good over the radio and I thought, 'no matter what the other songs sound like, I don't mind because this one turned out so well.'"
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