A Natural Woman: A Memoir

She has won numerous lifetime achievement honors and has been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, "Hit Parade" Hall of Fame, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.Carole King continues to entertain audiences the world over. In 2007 she and longtime collaborator James Taylor reunited and recorded Live

Amazon Customer said Wow, wow, wow and wow!. Carole, thank you for that piece of art. So personal that I wish you lived next door. There were so many things about this book I liked that it's hard to know where to beginTwelve years in the making and I can see why. Carole has always strove to create quality in anything she did.. Blah Book Written by A Gifted and Likeable Genius Roderick S. Haynes Always loved Carole King music. Her personal life, at least the early going with her breaking into song writing, is really interesting. But King's string of relationships/marriages are a sad look into a person who is a musical genius but with fame came personal trials. I simply did. Nancy Mehegan said Interesting life - needed a writer's touch. Carole has had a fascinating life and it's interesting to see how someone so talented and famous had the same insecurities as the rest of us mortals. Her songwriting ability is phenomenal and many of my memories of the 1970s are triggered by her beautiful songs. That said, I do wis

Carole King takes us from her early beginnings in Brooklyn, to her remarkable success as one of the world's most acclaimed songwriting and performing talents of all time. Deeply personal, King's long-awaited memoir offers readers a front-row seat to the woman behind the legend.The book includes dozens of photos from King's childhood, her own family, and behind-the-scenes images from her performances.. The life that inspired Beautiful: The Carole King Musical on Broadway. A NATURAL WOM

Change was in the air, though, and when her marriage deteriorated, she set off for Los Angeles to seek her own voice. Weaving a tapestry of rich and royal hue, King's affecting memoir eases readers through her life, from the girlhood in Brooklyn where she was already jotting down lyrics and her teenage years that culminated musically with the hit "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?"; through her tumultuous marriage and songwriting years with her first husband, Gerry Goffin; her moves back and forth between New York and California; her three marriages after Goffin; and her deep commitment to environmental issues bred by her living self-sufficiently with her family in the mountains of Idaho. She confronts the physical abuse she experienced at the hands of her third husband; her disbelief that she would let someone treat her that way, and her incredulousness at her own decision to remain in the r