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Carole King
American singer-songwriter and musician (born 1942)
For other people with similar names, see Carol King (disambiguation).
Carole King Klein[3] (born Carol Joan Klein; February 9, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. One of the most successful songwriters in American history, she wrote or co-wrote 118 pop hits appearing on the Billboard Hot 100 over the latter half of the 20th century.[4] King also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK,[5] making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1962 and 2005.[6]
King's major success began in the 1960s when she and her first husband, Gerry Goffin, wrote more than two dozen chart hits, many of which have become standards, for numerous artists. She has continued writing for other artists since then. King's success as a performer in her own right did not come until the 1970s, when she sang her own songs, accompanying herself on the piano, in a series of albums and concerts. After experiencing commercial disappointment with her debut
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Carole King's memoir gentle, reflective
A mellow free spirit and a tightly wound overachiever don't generally inhabit the same body. Carole King defies that rule, so has a madly energetic life story and a gentle reflective voice to tell it.
Born Carol Klein, Brooklynite King was a songwriting powerhouse with a huge catalog by the early 1960s and still in her 30s when she became a legend. Turns out, that's not all she'd packed into a young life: she was a respectably married mother of two by 20.
When she fell in love with Gerry Goffin, a slightly older aspiring lyricist she met at Queens College, their professional lives took off, but the marriage didn't survive the 1960s. He left for California in search of a "freer" lifestyle. She soon followed to keep her young daughters close to their father and because by that time, America's new music scene was purely L.A.
The early part of her solo performing career (kicked into gear by friend James Taylor) coincided with a second marriage that survived barely long enough to produce two more children.
A yearning for a more authentic r
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“It would take me decades to figure out that “home” needed to exist inside me before I could find or create it externally.”
Carole King, A Natural Woman
Title: A Natural Woman
Author: Carole King
Genres: Memoir, Biography, Non-fiction, Music
Length: 14 hrs, 13 mins
Published: April 10th, 2012
My Rating: ★★★★½
Read: 2/28/2024 – 3/9/2024
Review:
I’m a big fan of Carole King, especially after seeing the touring production of Beautiful. I didn’t realize then that she’d written a memoir so I was super excited when I came across the audiobook.
More than a linear autobiography of Carole King’s life, the book is more of a series of vignettes from different times in her life. Naturally, there is a large focus on her music career. Her narration is wonderful, interspersed with a few musical moments. She seems as genuinely down to earth as she appears in her music.
I certainly have a deeper appreciation for her music now knowing some of the stories behind the songs or the times they were written and recorded. A
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