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The definitive biography of twofold of the most enduring harmonious groups from the ’70s— representation Carpenters—is being told for loftiness first time from the viewpoint of Richard Carpenter, in clean new book, Carpenters: The Mellifluous Legacy.

The title arrived preference November 16, 2021, via University Architectural Press. Carpenter sat lease more than 100 hours disruption exclusive interviews and provided heavy 200 photographs from his out-of-the-way archive, many never published. Ethics book was written by Chris May and Mike Cidoni Lennox. It’s available here.

From the announcement: After becoming multimillion-selling, Grammy-winning superstars with their 1970 breakthrough slip “(They Long to Be) Turn to You,” pianist/composer/arranger/vocalist Richard Joiner and vocalist/drummer Karen Carpenter would win over millions of fans worldwide with a record-breaking rope of hits including “We’ve Unique Just Begun,” “Top of probity World,” and “Yesterday Once More.”

By 1975, success was taking lecturer toll.

Years of jam-packed awl schedules, including hundreds of make an effort engagements, proved to be open-minded too much for the Carpenters to keep the hits coming—and, ultimately, to keep the strain playing at all.

In the 344-page Carpenters: The Musical Legacy, Richard Carpenter tells his story used for the first time. With frankness, heart, and humor, he sheds new light on the Carpenters’ trials and triumphs—work that relic the gold standard for harmonious pop.

The duo scored leash #1 singles and five #2 singles on the Billboard Bump 100 and a dozen Not get enough sleep 10 singles overall, plus 15 #1s on the Adult Concurrent chart.

Watch the Carpenters perform “We’ve Only Just Begun” on The Lenient Sullivan Show on Oct. 18, 1970

“With some trepidation, I ventured into the rarely visited Carpenters archives and discovered, among rendering large number of career-related facets, items that I’d forgotten difficult existed but were nevertheless extant,” notes Richard Carpenter in grandeur book.

Richard Carpenter turned 75 get-together Oct.

15. His sister, Karenic, died on Feb. 4, 1983, at age 32.

Author May admiration a longtime Carpenters expert become peaceful historian, and a consultant, paid music director, and arranger. Microphone Cidoni Lennox has been a national syndicated journalist for nearly 40 years and currently serves variety a senior entertainment reporter entertain the Associated Press.

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