Simon penned "Anticipation" spontaneously as she fought off nervous energy while waiting for a date with music legend Cat Stevens.
“The whole song was done so immediately because I was afraid of losing the song before he came because I liked it,” she shared. “I liked it from the first verse on. And so I finished it by the time he arrived.”
In the book Anthems We Love, she explained that she was “anticipating his arrival” for their dinner date a few days before the show, but Stevens was late. "So I just started the song, and I wrote the whole song, words and music, before he got there that night,” she shared. “So in about 15 minutes, I wrote the whole song. Three verses, the choruses, and the outro. That's only one of three times that that's ever happened to me. That I just sat down and wrote the whole song in just one stretch.”
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Simon once explained, “I thought I would never record again due to the demanding and precious little sweet Sally I was taking care of (in the jolliest possible way), and so I was talked into selling my song 'Anticipation' to Heinz Ketchup for a commercial. I wasn't at all displeased with the results. It was well done and funny.”
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