Carly Simon shares Parkinson’s disease diagnosis and says music has ‘rescued’ her

Singer-songwriter also had surgery to treat carcinoma on her face, leading her to ‘withdraw from public view’The musician Carly Simon has revealed that she has Parkinson’s disease in a statement shared today. “So many people have written to me, kindly wondering about my relative silence, asking how I am and what I have been doing,” Simon said. “The truth is, I’ve been learning how to live with Parkinson’s disease.”