Long before sad-girl anthems like Lana Del Rey’s “Summertime Sadness” and Phoebe Bridgers’ “Motion Sickness” were dominating air waves, the sounds of Carole King and her piano were doing the emotional ...
In February 1971, Carole King stepped out from behind the piano and straight into pop music history. Her masterpiece LP ...
The track stalled at No. 2 despite becoming her biggest hit since 'It's Too Late' ...
Some songwriters allude to the feeling there is a higher, spiritual force at work. This was allegedly the experience of Carole King in January 1971 when she wrote You've Got A Friend, the song that ...
Carole King was working on the 1971 album that would win her four Grammy Awards when a song came to her through what felt like almost pure inspiration. “The song wrote itself,” she said later. “It was ...
Carole King released Fantasy during 1973. It was less commercially successful than her other 1970s hit albums, which was a shame, as it was her more creative one. As the years passed, it remained one ...
Carole King either wrote or co-wrote some of the most iconic songs of the ‘60s and ‘70s: “The Loco-Motion,” “Up on the Roof,” “I Feel the Earth Move,” “One Fine Day,” “Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” ...