Kenny Rogers

. Simon's most recent work was songs for the Disney Winnie The Pooh film Piglet's Big Movie. BOX SETS. She survived her disease, and in 2000 recorded her first album since her illness, The Bedroom Tapes.
. In 1998, Simon was diagnosed with breast cancer and received chemotherapy.
SOLO. She also recorded a cover of "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" for Ken Burns' 1994 film Baseball.

With The First Edition. "Why" (1982) was a hit in the UK, but she continued to scrape only the bottom of the charts with most of her singles in the 80s; during this time Simon also contributed to several film scores, including the songs "Coming Around Again" for Heartburn, and "Let the River Run" for Working Girl (for which she won the Academy Award for Best Song in 1988).
. In 1980, Simon collapsed onstage of exhaustion, and largely retired from performing in the 1980s. In 2000's he was still having #1 hit's with "The Greatest" and "Buy Me A Rose" and released the crictically acclaimed album "Back To The Well". January 22, 1977), prior to their 1983 divorce. He has been married five times, his fourth wife was the actress Marianne Gordon Rogers, his current wife is called Wanda. January 7, 1974) and Benjamin ("Ben") Simon Taylor (b.

His 1985 greatest hit's package, "The Kenny Rogers Story", for example, reached #1 on British Country Charts and four years later (in 1989) was still at #2 (He had also charted internationally during that time with a series of studio albums). Simon and Taylor had two children, Sarah Maria (b. His success is world-wide, for example he has played many highly attended concerts in Europe and The Far East, where he has charted numerous singles and albums from the 1970s through to the present day. Her sales quickly began sinking, though, in the later 1970s, with only a few Top Ten hits, including "Nobody Does It Better" (from the soundtrack to The Spy Who Loved Me, a James Bond film) and "You Belong to Me" (from Boys in the Trees, 1978). His 1982 movie "Six Pack" (in which he played a racing car driver) took more than $20 million at the US box office, while made for TV movies such as "The Gambler", "Christmas In America and "Coward of the county" (based on hit songs of his) topped ratings lists. Simon married fellow singer-songwriter James Taylor in 1972 (see 1972 in music) and followed up the success of No Secrets with a series of well-received albums Hotcakes (1974) and Playing Possum (1975). Like many other successful singers, such as Elvis Presley , he also had success as an actor. The speculation continues.

He collaborated with a developer of Kentucky Fried Chicken to start up the restaurant chain Kenny Rogers Roasters. The caveat was that Ebersol swore himself not to reveal that person. Rogers continued to be successful performing for both pop and country audiences; to date he has charted more than 60 hit singles (including upwards of 20 Number One's) and no less than 40 hit albums. In 2003, NBC Sports President Dick Ebersol won an auction from Simon in which the prize was a revelation on the actual person whom "You're So Vain" was about. The group split and Rogers launched his solo career in 1976. Simon herself once acknowledged the song was about "many vain men I've known in my life". They chalked up a string of hits on both the pop and country charts, including "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town", "Reuben James" and "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)". Much speculation was aroused regarding its subject, with many rumors pointing to Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones, who sang back up on the recording; other nominees included Warren Beatty, Cat Stevens, and Kris Kristofferson.

Many years of slow selling records and playing clubs followed for Rogers, until the formation of The First Edition in 1967 (Later renamed "Kenny Rogers and The First Edition). "You're So Vain" was a sarcastic profile of a self-absorbed lover. The song was a number one hit, and spawned one of the biggest mysteries in the rock era. His career began in the mid-1950's when he recorded a number with a doo-wop group. The album spawned several successful singles, including Simon's biggest record, "You're So Vain". Kenneth Donald Rogers (born August 21, 1938, in Houston, TX) is a prolific American country music singer, photographer, producer and actor. Simon's major breakthrough, though, was 1972's No Secrets. "Slow Dance More". The album contained a top-ten hit, "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be", and was followed quickly by a second album, Anticipation, the title cut from which also scored airplay.

"Buy Me A Rose". After a short-lived attempt at launching a career with her sister Lucy Simon (they had a minor hit in the mid-1960s with a version of the children's song "Winken, Blinken, and Nod" as "The Simon Sisters"), and a short spell with eclectic New York rockers Elephant's Memory, Simon launched her solo career in 1971 with the self-titled album Carly Simon. "The Greatest". She was raised in the Riverdale neighborhood of New York City and has two sisters and a brother. "If You Want To Find Love". Her father was Richard L. Simon (co-founder of Simon & Schuster, Inc.), an accomplished pianist who often played Chopin and Beethoven at home. "Some Prisons Don't Have Walls". Simon (born June 25, 1945) is a US musician who emerged as one of the leading lights of the early 1970s singer-songwriter boom.

"What I Did For Love". Carly E. "There Lies The Diffrence". That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be, 1971. "The Vows Go Unbroken (Always True To You)". The Right Thing To Do, 1973. "After All This Time". Haven't Got Time For The Pain, 1974.