The Carpenters: The Untold Story : An Authorized Biography

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I wish I could talk to him about his thoughts on digital audio and whether he would have changed things much because of it. By the time Karen's weight dropped to 6st 6lb, she looked for ways to disguise the weight loss, especially around those she knew would make comments or pester her to eat more. Karen Carpenter's velvet voice charmed millions in the 70s… but behind the wholesome image she was in turmoil. She levelled off at around 8st 8lb and maintained her weight by eating sensibly but not starving herself.

I grabbed this not knowing much about the Carpenters besides what I saw in a documentary made with Barbies. It creates painful cramps, tastes terrible, and it does another thing that the public isn't aware of.After becoming multi-million selling, Grammy-winning superstars with their 1970 breakthrough “(They Long to Be) Close to You,” Richard and Karen Carpenter would win over fans worldwide with a record-breaking string of hits including “We’ve Only Just Begun,” “Top of the World” and “Yesterday Once More. We definitely liked and disliked the same things — a real friend where you could talk about anything you wish and you don’t feel uncomfortable,” he says. Yesterday Once More" is a pastiche of mostly affectionate and warm portrayals of two talented people who, in spite of their human frailties, gave the world a lasting legacy of music.

They notched up 10 gold singles, nine gold albums, one multi-platinum album and three Grammy awards. After the meeting with Levenkron, Richard became angry with the treatment plan, which he thought to be worthless. Arriving at Levenkron's office at 16 East Seventy-Ninth in Manhattan, Karen weighed in at an alarming 5st 8lb. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.It actually left me still wanting to know more about exactly how some of their biggest songs came together, because there wasn't enough of that here. My mother adored the Carpenters and the band was a regular fixture in our house while I was growing up. And if you get as caught up in happy memories of amazing friends as I do and those friends happen to love The Carpenters, this should be at the top of your hit list. Lennox, a senior entertainment reporter at the Associated Press, and May, a music director and arranger, are both longtime Carpenters experts — they met online on a forum dedicated to the group.