What I Heard

Remembering Carly Simon’s first hit

Photo by mark champs on Unsplash

I turned fifteen in 1971, and like any white guy growing up in the South during those days, I followed football, rock and roll, and tried to find ways to please and rebel against my parents.

I didn’t want to play football, except in pick-up games around the neighborhood; I didn’t have the discipline or the nerve to try to form or join a band, though I did…