In the early 1970s, "Superstar" was a song that had already been recorded by a handful of famous faces. Written by Bonnie ...

Eventually, power ballads hit their stride in the early to mid-1980s, becoming a dominant force in both rock and pop music.

LOS ANGELES -- Forty-seven years ago at the American Music Awards, the Carpenters took home the Favorite Pop Group honor. All these years later, a journalist and a Carpenters' historian teamed up to ...

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Brother and sister duo the Carpenters — featuring Karen on drums and vocals and Richard on vocals and keyboards — were one of the biggest-selling pop groups of the late 1960s and early ’70s. Close to ...

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Singer Lisa Rock has always loved the music of Karen and Richard Carpenter. She has been sharing their songs with audiences since 2010 in her show, “Close to You: The Music of the Carpenters.” Rock ...

There are those, of course, who were too young or who weren't yet born in the 1970s when the music of the Carpenters rode the airwaves, so experiencing the songs as part of the musical may be, for ...