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![Watch So Far Away (with James Taylor) [BBC In Concert, February 10, 1971] music video by Carole King](/mkimage/image/thumb/Video116/v4/be/96/05/be9605af-f77d-9ea8-f500-9b9e2cc6e583/dj.uykauszi.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch So Far Away (with James Taylor) [BBC In Concert, February 10, 1971] music video by Carole King")
![Watch It's Too Late (with Danny Kootch) [BBC In Concert, February 10, 1971] music video by Carole King](/mkimage/image/thumb/Video126/v4/20/e7/02/20e70229-dc2a-93d7-1e31-1130a846adf7/dj.skmnoryx.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch It's Too Late (with Danny Kootch) [BBC In Concert, February 10, 1971] music video by Carole King")
![Watch Smackwater Jack (with Jo Mama Group) [BBC In Concert, February 10, 1971] music video by Carole King](/mkimage/image/thumb/Video124/v4/1f/e1/fa/1fe1fa1c-01cf-469a-5541-e4795e385df6/8864489661970101.jpg/575x575mv.webp "Watch Smackwater Jack (with Jo Mama Group) [BBC In Concert, February 10, 1971] music video by Carole King")
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About Carole King
Born
1942
Genre
Pop
Across her career, Carole King wrote or co-wrote 118 hit songs that made the Billboard Hot 100—making her one of the most successful female songwriters of any era but also simply one of the most successful songwriters, period. She’s a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and was the first woman to receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
As a teenager, King was a music-crazy kid, attending Alan Freed’s rock ’n’ roll spectaculars at the Brooklyn Paramount. She started a band when she got to high school, and like thousands of kids in the late ’50s, hoped for stardom. In the meantime, though, she was writing songs, by herself and with her songwriting partner, boyfriend (then husband, after becoming pregnant at age 17 and dropping out of college) Gerry Goffin. They were barely past being teenagers themselves, writing music for teenagers, and that gave them an advantage. Goffin-King had a preternatural ability to synthesize everything they heard into pop gold: “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” “The Loco-Motion.” “Chains.” “Up on the Roof.” “I’m into Something Good.” “One Fine Day.” The only thing their songs had in common is that they were hits.
In the ’70s, after the end of her marriage to Goffin, King relocated to Laurel Canyon. She quickly became part of the scene, befriending the likes of Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, and Toni Stern, a poet who became King’s primary songwriting partner. Their collaboration would give us Tapestry, King’s sophomore record, which became one of the most popular and acclaimed records in pop history, spending 15 consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard album chart and would remain on the chart for another six years, a record that didn’t get broken until Adele’s 21 in 2017. Tapestry gave us “You’ve Got a Friend” (which James Taylor took to No. 1), “It’s Too Late,” as well as King’s own versions of “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” and “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman.” King continued to write songs for other artists as well as write and perform as a solo artist until her official retirement from music in 2012.
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