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THE four times Grammy Award winning music artist Carole King has been an active singer since 1958.Although she has achieved great success from her mus
'The sound of someone finding their way in the world': Carole King's 1971 album Tapestry The sky was blue, the breeze was cool, the Hollywood Hills twinkled in the sun. And as she sped towards Laurel Canyon with the roof down, 26-year-old Carole King could feel life hurtling forward to met her at a headlong pace. “I turned right onto Laurel Canyon and revelled in the rush of wind blowing through my hair,” the singer-songwriter would write of her first experiences of LA in her 2012 memoir, A Natural Woman. “Other drivers were cruising up and down the canyon without a specific destinati...
The follow-up to Tapestry was cut from a similar cloth – relaxed but intimate tone, versions of Goffin-King songs made famous by others a decade earlier, guest appearances from James Taylor – and was always going to live in the shadow of a predecessor that was still in the US Top 10 when Music was released. Its enduring reputation as a mildly disappointing sequel doesn’t do justice to the sheer quality of the songwriting: it’s hard to see how anybody could be underwhelmed by King’s reading of Some Kind of Wonderful, the old Goffin-King Drifters’ hit, or by It’s Going to Take Som...
Carole King Fast Facts Personal Birth place: New York, New York Birth name: Carol Joan Klein Father: Sydney Klein, New York City fire lieutenant Mother: Eugenia (Cammer) Klein, speech therapist Marriages: Rick Sorenson (1982-divorced); Rick Evers (1977-1978, his death); Charles Larkey (1970-divorced); Gerry Goffin (1959-divorced) Children: with Charles Larkey: Levi and Molly; with Gerry Goffin: Sherry and Louise Education: Attended Queens College Other Facts Working with partner Gerry Goffin during the early 1960s, King composed melodies on piano, and Goffin wrote lyrics. They were based in t...