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Article: King, Carole
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Carole King
Singer, songwriter
First Hit Before Age 20
Met James Taylor
Tapestry
Hard to Top
Selected discography
Sources
An introspective,
stage-frightened woman with a wispy though resonant voice, Carole King seemed an unlikely bet in the early 1970s to become one of the top-selling recording artists of all time. But she moved quickly into that elite class with just one album, 1971
’
s
Tapestry,
which by itself has sold more than 14 million copies worldwide and was the best-selling LP of all time until the Bee Gees surpassed it at the height of the disco craze with their
Saturday Night Fever
soundtrack. While
Tapestry
made King a household name as a singer, her previous career ...
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