The Carpenter's Lady LP
Author: Barbara Delinsky
Publisher: HarperLuxe
Published: 2010-03-01
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780061720222
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Barbara Delinsky
Publisher: HarperLuxe
Published: 2010-03-01
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780061720222
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Karen Tongson
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2019-06-01
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1477318860
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. At the same time, the uplifting harmonies and sunny lyrics that propelled Karen Carpenter and her brother, Richard, to international fame belied a different sort of tragedy—the underconsumption that led to Karen's death at age thirty-two from the effects of an eating disorder. In Why Karen Carpenter Matters, Karen Tongson (whose Filipino musician parents named her after the pop icon) interweaves the story of the singer’s rise to fame with her own trans-Pacific journey between the Philippines—where imitations of American pop styles flourished—and Karen Carpenter’s home ground of Southern California. Tongson reveals why the Carpenters' chart-topping, seemingly whitewashed musical fantasies of "normal love" can now have profound significance for her—as well as for other people of color, LGBT+ communities, and anyone outside the mainstream culture usually associated with Karen Carpenter’s legacy. This hybrid of memoir and biography excavates the destructive perfectionism at the root of the Carpenters’ sound, while finding the beauty in the singer's all too brief life.
Author: Randy Schmidt
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Published: 2012-03-07
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0857127691
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Karen Carpenter was the instantly recognisable lead singer of the Carpenters. The top-selling American musical act of the 1970s, they delivered the love songs that defined a generation. Karen's velvety voice on a string of 16 consecutive Top 20 hits from 1970 to 1976 – including Close to You, We've Only Just Begun, Rainy Days and Mondays, Superstar, and Hurting Each Other – propelled the duo to worldwide stardom and record sales of over 100 million. Karen's musical career was short – only 13 years. During that time, the Carpenters released 10 studio albums, toured more than 200 days a year, taped five television specials, and won three Grammys and an American Music Award. But that's only part of Karen's story. As the world received news of her death at 32 years of age in 1983, she became the proverbial poster child for anorexia nervosa. Little Girl Blue is an intimate profile of Karen Carpenter, a girl from a modest Connecticut upbringing who became a Superstar. Based on exclusive interviews with nearly 100 friends and associates, including record producers, studio musicians, songwriters, television directors, photographers, radio personalities, classmates, childhood friends, neighbours, personal assistants, romantic interests, hairdressers, and housekeepers.'...thorough and affectionate biography of a singer who's been constantly undervalued by the music industry.' MOJO 'Schmidt cannot be faulted... carefully factual, sensitively pitched book.' The Word 'The first truly convincing account of her nightmarish story.' The Guardian
Author: Billie Douglass
Publisher: Harlequin Books
Published: 1983-11
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780373536337
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Randy L. Schmidt
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 161374417X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With a string of number-one hits showcasing Karen Carpenter's warm and distinctive vocals and Richard Carpenter's sophisticated compositions and arrangements, the Carpenters were responsible for some of the most popular music of the 1970s, and this compendium collects more than 50 articles, interviews, essays, reviews, and reassessments that chronicle the lives and career of this brother-sister musical team. Writings from pop journalists and historians such as Daniel J. Levitin, John Tobler, Digby Diehl, Ray Coleman, Robert Hilburn, and Lester Bangs provide insight into the music and personalities of the duo who produced such timeless pop music. From serious musical analyses of the Carpenters' arrangements to lighter pieces in which Karen and Richard discuss dating, cars, and high school, this new edition has been revised and expanded to include nearly a dozen additional pieces, some of which have never been published.
Author: Billie Douglass
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780340354247
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Randy L. Schmidt
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2011-09
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 1569768188
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Original publication and copyright date: 2010.
Author: Randy L Schmidt
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781643073217
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"An album-by-album retrospective of the legendary duo's recordings. Randy L. Schmidt has assembled a team of commentators, journalists, authors, musicians, and other entertainment industry figures for a series of in-depth, insightful, and opinionated conversations on every release"--Back cover.
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Published: 2000-12-30
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13:
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