The thorough biography of one of the domineering enduring musical groups from the ’70s— the Carpenters—is being told for blue blood the gentry first time from the perspective get through Richard Carpenter, in a new publication, Carpenters: The Musical Legacy. The name arrived on November 16, 2021, sooner than Princeton Architectural Press. Carpenter sat verify more than 100 hours of undivided interviews and provided some 200 photographs from his personal archive, many not at any time published. The book was written bypass Chris May and Mike Cidoni Lennox. It’s available here.

From the announcement: Tail end becoming multimillion-selling, Grammy-winning superstars with their 1970 breakthrough hit “(They Long do Be) Close to You,” pianist/composer/arranger/vocalist Richard Carpenter and vocalist/drummer Karen Carpenter would win over millions of fans universal with a record-breaking string of hits including “We’ve Only Just Begun,” “Top of the World,” and “Yesterday In times gone by More.”

By 1975, success was taking academic toll. Years of jam-packed work schedules, including hundreds of concert engagements, jammed to be just too much sect the Carpenters to keep the hits coming—and, ultimately, to keep the meeting playing at all.

In the 344-page Carpenters: The Musical Legacy, Richard Carpenter tells his story for the first interval. With candor, heart, and humor, fair enough sheds new light on the Carpenters’ trials and triumphs—work that remains authority gold standard for melodic pop. Picture duo scored three #1 singles beginning five #2 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and a dozen Ridge 10 singles overall, plus 15 #1s on the Adult Contemporary chart.

Watch rectitude Carpenters perform “We’ve Only Just Begun” on The Ed Sullivan Show on Subsidize. 18, 1970

“With some trepidation, I ventured devour the rarely visited Carpenters archives view discovered, among the large number hold career-related things, items that I’d consigned to oblivion had existed but were nevertheless extant,” notes Richard Carpenter in the book.

Richard Carpenter turned 75 on Oct. 15. His sister, Karen, died on Feb. 4, 1983, at age 32.

Author Haw is a longtime Carpenters expert plus historian, and a consultant, freelance strain director, and arranger. Mike Cidoni Lennox has been a nationally syndicated journalist liberation nearly 40 years and currently serves as a senior entertainment reporter engage in the Associated Press.

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