About Beautiful - The Carole King Musical BEAUTIFUL - THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL Before she was hit-maker Carole King, she was Carole Klein, a spunky, young songwriter from Brooklyn with a unique voice. From the chart-topping hits she wrote for the biggest acts in music to her own life-chang...
King, who was born in Brooklyn, performed the show to more than 100,000 fans. “New York has given me such an awful lot — stimulus, ideas, feelings to write — that the concert is just a small way of giving something back to it,”The New York Timesreported she said before the sho...
'Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon' kept up the momentum James Taylor had built with the previous year's 'Sweet Baby James.' It was helped by the smash cover of Carole King's "You've Got a Friend," for which he earned a Grammy. Taylor's originals, including "You Can Close Your...
It was a perfect storm of time and place for King and Tapestry, buoyed by her back catalog but fueled by her new set of songs, including the timeless "You've Got a Friend," which Taylor recorded at the same time as King's version and rushed out as a No. 1 single. On an album ...
“Blossom”, “Machine Gun Kelly”, “Carolina on My Mind”, “Something in the Way She Moves”, “Country Road”, “Fire and Rain”, “Sweet Baby James”. The King-penned “You’ve Got a Friend”, “Up on the Roof” and “You Can Close Your Eyes” boast shared vocals from both...
Carole King has been a central figure in two of pop music’s Golden Ages. In the late ‘50s and early ‘60s, she and lyricist Gerry Goffin--her husband at the time--wrote some of rock’s most enduring songs, including such No. 1 hits as the Drifters’ yearning “Up on the Roof”...
The release of “There’s No Me… Without You (with Carole King)” comes on the heels of the release of “Hold On Hope (with Eric Church)” and “Nothing But The Whole Wide World (with Eric Clapton).” Campbell was one of the biggest stars of his generation—even outselling The ...
Carole King, 'Tapestry' Ode Carole King, 'Tapestry' Carole King had spent more than a decade penning hits for others at the Brill Building by the time she went solo in 1970. Although her debut LP, 'Winter,' mostly contained lyrics written by ex-husband Gerry Goffin, she opened up about...
” She’s written more than 400 songs that transcend generations and has worked with some of the biggest stars in music, such as Ray Charles, Celine Dion, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Carole King, Melissa Manchester, ...
Carole King, 'Tapestry' Ode Carole King, 'Tapestry' Carole King had spent more than a decade penning hits for others at the Brill Building by the time she went solo in 1970. Although her debut LP, 'Winter,' mostly contained lyrics written by ex-husband Gerry Goffin, she opened up about...