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Three Weeks, Twelve Songs, One Window Seat: How Carole King Made ‘Tapestry’
Three Weeks, Twelve Songs, One Window Seat: How Carole King Made “Tapestry” There is a photograph that has sold tens of millions of albums. It shows a woman sitting barefoot on a window seat in her own living room, holding a piece of needlework she stitched herself, her cat at her feet, looking straight into…
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The Mountain Woman: How Carole King Traded Stardom for Idaho’s Wilderness
In 1977, at an age when most pop stars are either fading or desperately clinging to the spotlight, Carole King did something unthinkable: she walked away. Not from music — never from music — but from the machinery of stardom. She packed up her life and moved to Idaho. Not Los Angeles. Not Nashville. Idaho…
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The Night a Shout From a Limo Became “A Natural Woman”: How Carole King Wrote Aretha’s Anthem
Some songs are written. Some are commissioned. And then there’s “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman,” which was shouted through the open window of a moving limousine on a Broadway sidewalk in 1967 — and written the same night, in a house in New Jersey, while two little girls slept upstairs. It became…
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The Untold Story of Carole King: The Hitmaker Who Finally Sang Her Own Songs
Before Carole King ever sat at a piano on a stage with her name on the marquee, she was already one of the most important people in American pop music. She just wasn’t famous yet. By the time she was in her mid-twenties, she had written or co-written more chart hits than most artists manage…