The artist Carole King was always “under the influence” of

While Carole King didn't need a bunch of influences to make her own classics, she knew some people had a better model for ...

The single line that made Carole King write a classic: “I’ve seen lonely times”

Carole King has always been a true original, but her greatest moment of inspiration was taken from a single lyric she used to inspire a classic.

‘Carole King’ Review: A Friend at the Piano

Her prowess at the piano had already wowed her classmates at James Madison High School (which has graduated such notable Jewish alumni as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumer), and at ...
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Carole King, & James Taylor

Before there was JT "the 'Dick in a Box'-endorsing Madonna-molester," there was JT "the methadone-smooth folk-rock lothario." And from almost the beginning, Carole King was there, too. Taylor first ...
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James Taylor interviewed: “The success was a surprise…”

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‘Carole King’ tells the story of a songwriting giant

Jane Eisner’s admiring, observant biography covers the singer’s early life in Brooklyn, her hit songs and albums, and her four marriages. When the famed singer-songwriter Carole King was asked to ...