Carly Simon: Live from Martha's Vineyard

Carly Simon: Live From Martha's Vineyard
Cover of 2004 and 2010 DVD releases.
Live album by Carly Simon
Released	1988
Recorded	1987 in Martha's Vineyard
Genre	Live, Pop, Adult contemporary
Length	70 minutes
Original VHS cover

Carly Simon: Live From Martha's Vineyard is a 1987 HBO concert special featuring Carly Simon recorded live on the shores of Martha's Vineyard. It featured Simon and a live band performing the majority of her Coming Around Again album as well as her classic hits such as "Anticipation", "You're So Vain", "Nobody Does It Better", and "You Belong To Me".

On its first screening and release on HBO, the concert was entitled "Carly Simon - Coming Around Again".

Simon received a CableACE Award nomination for Performance in a Music Special in 1988.

The concert was first released on VHS, Betamax, and Laserdisc in 1988, all three editions are now out of print. A Region 1 DVD version was released on March 9, 2004 by Grandstand Entertainment, which quickly went out of print. Simon reissued the concert on May 11, 2010 under the Iris Records label as a Region All DVD, with no changes to the original cover art. This release also carried over the special features from the 2004 Grandstand release.

The concert was filmed over two days, the first being cloudy and misty and the second being bright and sunny, Simon recalls in several interviews that the original idea was to film both nights and then choose the best performances of each between them, with the wildly different weather though, of course it was not possible to intercut between performances. As a result, Simon reports that not only did she prefer the first evening's performance overall, but that the clouds and marine spray lent a certain air of mystery and intrigue as a backdrop for the concert.

In addition, Simon tells viewers that she considerably shortened the concert for the first evening due to the cold, but performed the concert in its entirety the following evening. One of the missing songs can be found on both releases of the DVD as bonus footage.