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USA TODAY Carole King s Tapestry turns 50 today, bringing its legacy of love, friendship and female empowerment into a new decade. Filled with hits So Far Away, Beautiful and I Feel the Earth Move , Tapestry was the most Grammy-winning album released in 1971. It earned King four awards: record of the year for “It’s Too Late”, album of the year, song of the year for “You’ve Got A Friend” and best pop vocal performance, female. King didn t accept the awards in person, having recently given birth. It was just about the most successful album of the decade, and proof that women could rule rock s formerly male-dominated world, Sheila Weller, author of Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon – and the Journey of a Generation wrote for AARP. ....
Amy Sherman-Palladino grew up in the Valley obsessively listening to “Tapestry.” When she needed a theme song for “Gilmore Girls,” she had one song in mind. King, now 78, declined to talk about her signature work, as she does with virtually all interview requests. But 50 years after its release on Feb. 10, 1971, “Tapestry” stands as an indelible document of soft-rock introspection, with the statistics and accolades four top-20 singles; Grammy Awards for album, record and song of the year; estimated worldwide sales of 30 million copies to ensure it’s still talked about even as hand-me-down vinyl collections have given way to streaming ones and zeroes. ....