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Carole King artist page: interviews, features and/or performances archived at NPR Music
Carole King's Tapestry has become one of the biggest selling albums of all time. Now, the singer-songwriter is focused on environmental activism, and is working to push Congress to pass a bill to help the Northern Rockies.
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Scott Simon talks with singer-songwriter Carole King, who is on tour for her new double-CD set, Welcome to My Living Room.
()Liane Hansen speaks with singer/songwriter/legend Carole King, who wrote the music for 1960's hits including Up on the Roof and One Fine Day. Her 1971 album Tapestry was a huge hit, selling 14 million copies. Her latest cd, Love Makes the World, has just been released on her own label, Rockingale Records. {You can find out more at www.caroleking.com.}
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Singer and songwriter Carole King wrote '60s hits such as "Up on the Roof" and "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" In the '70s, she achieved lasting fame performing her own material, such as "Natural Woman" and Tapestry, the best-selling album of the decade. Carole King's new album is titled The Living Room Tour. It was recorded live in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Hyannis, Mass. (This interview originally aired June 19, 1989.)
()Elizabeth Blair reports on Carole King's album Tapestry, as part of NPR's series on the most important American musical works of the 20th century, otherwise known as the NPR 100. With her husband, Gerry Goffin, King started out as a songwriter. They wrote hits for Little Eva and Aretha Franklin. King didn't sing her own songs until after her divorce, but when she did, she sold 15 million copies.
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