Carly Simon was born in New York City on June 25, 1945. Simon’s father Richard L. Simon was a co-founder of renowned publisher Simon and Schuster, and her mother Andrea Louise Simon was a civil rights activist of mixed black and German descent. One of Simon’s greatest influences in her early days was her sister Lucy. The pair attended an elite private high school in New York City and Carly fell in love with the arts and music when Lucy adopted the beatnik style while in college.“Lucy had her black ears pierced. Black leotards. She started wearing peasant blouses and blue jeans that were slightly cut off and frazzled around the edges. She grew her hair long and played the guitar. So immediately, I became a beatnik too,” she recalls in “More Room in a Broken Heart: The True Adventures of Carly Simon” by Stephen Davis.