{"id":69644,"date":"2026-07-31T14:58:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/carly-simon-drops-new-single-peaches-following-parkinsons-diagnosis\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T14:58:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T14:58:30","slug":"carly-simon-drops-new-single-peaches-following-parkinsons-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/carly-simon-drops-new-single-peaches-following-parkinsons-diagnosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Carly Simon Drops New Single &#8216;Peaches&#8217; Following Parkinson&#8217;s Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDays after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/carly-simon-parkinsons-disease-diagnosis-1235598947\/\">revealing her diagnosis <\/a>of Parkinson\u2019s disease, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/carly-simon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_carly-simon\" data-tag=\"carly-simon\">Carly Simon<\/a> has released the single \u201cPeaches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThere are peaches growing on my trees,\u201d Simon sings in the opening verse, across sparse percussion. \u201cNo one has ever seen peaches quite like these.\u201d According to a statement, the track is about \u201cthe gap between what should come naturally, the things everyone takes for granted, and the parts of yourself that just don\u2019t cooperate, no matter how obvious or \u2018correct\u2019 the feeling should be.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Carly Simon - Peaches [Official Lyric Video]\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-cOEuiuIcDw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cPeaches\u201d is the second glimpse of Simon\u2019s upcoming album <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/carly-simon-new-album-comes-in-waves-howl-song-1235576102\/\">Comes in Waves<\/a><\/em>, following the lead single, \u201cHowl.\u201d The record, out Aug. 14, is Simon\u2019s first in nearly two decades, after 2009\u2019s <em>Never Been Gone<\/em>. <em>Comes in Waves<\/em> was produced by Simon\u2019s longtime collaborator Paul Samwell-Smith and features her children, Ben and Sally Taylor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSimon gave a health update to fans on Monday, where the 82-year-old icon shed light on her recent diagnosis of Parkinson\u2019s disease. \u201cIt has taken me some time to understand the diagnosis, to adjust to it, and to decide how much I wanted to say about it publicly,\u201d she wrote. \u201cParkinson\u2019s is different for everyone, and it can be unpredictable. Some days I\u2019m so tired I can\u2019t get the day moving at all. On others, it gives me a little more room to move, think, work, and feel like myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe singer admitted that her diagnosis \u2014 as well as the basal cell carcinoma on her face she recently treated, effectively removing the cancer \u2014 caused her to withdraw from the public eye. \u201cI have always been more critical of my appearance than anyone else could possibly imagine (check out the irony of having written \u2018You\u2019re So Vain\u2019),\u201d she said. \u201cAnd this gave my inner critic quite a lot of new material.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>Comes in Waves <\/em>contains nine new original songs and a couple of tracks written earlier in life. \u201cThere were melodies, verses, and ideas written down and tucked away for some unknown future when I would have the time and attention to finish them,\u201d Simon said. \u201cApparently, that future is now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/carly-simon-peaches-single-1235600939\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days after revealing her diagnosis of Parkinson\u2019s disease, Carly Simon has released the single \u201cPeaches.\u201d \u201cThere are peaches growing on my trees,\u201d Simon sings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":69645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}