Carole king

Carole King and Gerry Goffin, her husband and writing partner, didn’t single-handedly compose the sound track to my adolescence, but it’s hard to imagine coming-of-age without “Up On The Roof,” “Natural Woman,” and “The Loco Motion.” King, born Carol Klein, in Manhattan in 1942, was barely out of adolescence herself when she and Goffin wrote …

Take this beautiful Carole King music quiz and feel the earth move under your feet. Carole King is one of the defining voices of our generation. We grew up singing her hits, and her influence endures to this day. (There’s even a smash musical, “Beautiful,” about King’s life, running on Broadway.) Decades after we first heard them, …