Carole King - Academy of Achievement

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At age 18, she scored her first Number One hit record – the first of 118 pop hits on the Billboard charts, including such classics as “Will You Love MeTomorrow,” “The Loco-Motion,” “Up on the Roof,” It’s Too Late, Baby,” “I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet,” “You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman” and “You’ve Got a Friend.” To date, she has recorded 25 solo albums, the most successful of which, Tapestry, sold 25 million copies, and for a quarter of a century held the record for a female artist for most weeks at the top of the charts. The recipient of the 2013 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2013 Gershwin Prize, she is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. For more than a half century, she has given voice to her innermost truth, and struck a resounding chord in the hearts of listeners around the world. 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/what-it-takes/id1025864075?mt=2" target="_blank"> Listen to this achiever on <i>What It Takes</i> </a> </h3> <p class="sans-6 banner__text m-b-0"><i>What It Takes</i> is an audio podcast on iTunes produced by the American Academy of Achievement featuring intimate, revealing conversations with influential leaders in the diverse fields of endeavor: music, science and exploration, sports, film, technology, literature, the military and social justice.</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <header class="editorial-article__header col-md-8 col-md-offset-2 text-xs-center"> <i class="icon-icon_bio text-brand-primary"></i> <h3 class="serif-3 quote-marks">I didn't feel beautiful when I was growing up. And I found my niche. I couldn't compete with girls who were thought of as beautiful, so I found my niche in music. And that was where I found my beauty.</h3> </header> </div> <div class="row"> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar clearfix"> <h2 class="serif-3 p-b-1">Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement</h2> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Birth</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> February 9, 1942 </dd> </div> </aside> <article class="editorial-article col-md-8"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_30767" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignright"><noscript><img class="wp-image-30767 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CK-Family-Portrait-1947-EG.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-30767 size-full lazyload" alt="1947: Carole King and parents Eugenia and Sidney Klein." width="2280" height="2913" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CK-Family-Portrait-1947-EG.jpg 2280w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CK-Family-Portrait-1947-EG-297x380.jpg 297w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CK-Family-Portrait-1947-EG-595x760.jpg 595w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CK-Family-Portrait-1947-EG.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">1947: Carole King and parents Eugenia and Sidney Klein.</figcaption></figure><p>Carole King was born Carol Joan Klein in New York City. She grew up in Brooklyn with her father — a firefighter — and her mother, a school teacher. Mrs. Klein loved music and the theater, and made sure her daughter was exposed to both. By the age of three, Carol (the final “e” came later) was showing an enthusiasm for music and a highly accurate sense of pitch. At age four, her mother began teaching her the rudiments of piano technique, music theory and harmony. Carol easily learned the popular songs she heard on the radio, and soon began writing songs of her own. At age 15 she auditioned for ABC Paramount Records and caught the ear of producer Don Costa, who placed her under contract. She recorded her first singles as a singer, without notable success, but continued to write music and learn the record business.</p> <figure id="attachment_30770" style="width: 2007px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-30770 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-74279809_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-30770 size-full lazyload" alt="1959: Husband and wife songwriting team Carole King and Gerry Goffin in RCA recording studio in New York City. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)" width="2007" height="2984" data-sizes="(max-width: 2007px) 100vw, 2007px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-74279809_master.jpg 2007w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-74279809_master-256x380.jpg 256w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-74279809_master-511x760.jpg 511w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-74279809_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">1959: Husband and wife songwriting team Carole King and Gerry Goffin in RCA recording studio in New York City.</figcaption></figure><p>A precocious student, she graduated from high school at 16 and enrolled at Queens College, where she met Gerry Goffin, an aspiring lyricist. They married and quit school, working at day jobs and writing songs together at night. After a few minor sales they struck gold with “Will You Love Me Tomorrow.” Recorded by the Shirelles, it went to Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, as the bestselling single in the country. It was the first record by an African American girl group to go to Number One, and on the strength of its success, Gerry Goffin and Carole King, still in her teens, quit their day jobs to become full-time songwriters.</p> <figure id="attachment_30775" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-30775 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-151884599_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-30775 lazyload" alt="1963: Little Eva (Eva Narcissus Boyd) poses for a portrait with producer Al Nevins, songwriter Carole King, songwriter Gerry Goffin and producer Don Kirshner in New York City. (PoPsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)" width="2280" height="2323" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-151884599_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-151884599_master-373x380.jpg 373w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-151884599_master-746x760.jpg 746w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-151884599_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">1963: Little Eva (Eva Narcissus Boyd) poses for a portrait with record producer Al Nevins, songwriter Carole King, songwriter Gerry Goffin and producer Don Kirshner in New York City. (PoPsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives)</figcaption></figure><p>In the 1950s and ‘60s, the Brill Building in New York City was the center of the nation’s music publishing industry. Publishers and record labels occupied dozens of offices in the building, and an army of professional songwriters pounded pianos in tiny studios, writing the songs for the first generation of rock and roll stars. Goffin and King were among the most successful of the era’s songwriting teams, writing hits such as “The Loco-Motion,” “Up on the Roof,” “One Fine Day,” and “Take Good Care of My Baby” for solo artists and vocal groups like the Drifters and the Chiffons. As the British-inspired wave of guitar bands took over the charts in the mid-’60s, many of them recorded Goffin-King tunes, with the Beatles covering “Chains,” Herman’s Hermits singing ”I’m Into Something Good,” The Animals introducing “Don’t Bring Me Down,” and the American television band the Monkees playing Goffin-King’s “Pleasant Valley Sunday.” The team’s collaboration reached its pinnacle with Aretha Franklin’s recording of “You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman” in 1967.</p> <figure id="attachment_30781" style="width: 1000px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-30781 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Goffin_king-4-low.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-30781 lazyload" alt="This bumper collection of numbers penned by revered New Yorkers Gerry Goffin and his wife Carole King includes familiar hits (the Shirelles’ "What A Sweet Thing That Was," Bobby Vee’s "Sharing You," the Cookies’ "Will Power," the Drifters’ "When My Little Girl Is Smiling," overlooked gems (the Hondells’ "Show Me Girl," the Hearts & Flowers’ "Road To Nowhere," Walter Jackson’s "Anything Can Happen") and some new-to-CD rarities (‘You Turn Me On, Boy" by the Honey Bees, the Orlons’ "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby," the Clovers’ "The Sheik" and Theola Kilgore’s "It’s Gonna Be Alright"). By 1968 Carole and Gerry had moved from the East Coast and were living apart in Los Angeles, where Carole formed the group The City. "Snow Queen" (heard here in a rare version by the Tokens) and "That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho)" (here by Dusty Springfield, one of the Goffins’ biggest champions), were among the six Goffin and King songs on “Now That Everything’s Been Said,” The City’s album. After their divorce, Carole and Gerry did resume writing together, although much less prolifically than before. (Mick Patrick)" width="1000" height="1000" data-sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Goffin_king-4-low.jpg 1000w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Goffin_king-4-low-190x190.jpg 190w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Goffin_king-4-low-380x380.jpg 380w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Goffin_king-4-low-760x760.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Goffin_king-4-low.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">This collection of numbers penned by Gerry Goffin and his wife Carole King includes hits (the Shirelles’ “What A Sweet Thing That Was,” Bobby Vee’s “Sharing You,” the Cookies’ “Will Power,” the Drifters’ “When My Little Girl Is Smiling,” overlooked gems (the Hondells’ “Show Me Girl,” the Hearts & Flowers’ “Road To Nowhere,” Walter Jackson’s “Anything Can Happen”) and (‘You Turn Me On, Boy” by the Honey Bees, the Orlons’ “Keep Your Hands Off My Baby,” the Clovers’ “The Sheik” and Theola Kilgore’s “It’s Gonna Be Alright”). By 1968, Carole and Gerry had moved from the East Coast and were living apart in Los Angeles, where Carole formed the group The City. “Snow Queen” (heard here in a rare version by the Tokens) and “That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho)” by Dusty Springfield, were among the six Goffin and King songs on <em>Now That Everything’s Been Said</em>, The City’s album. (Mick Patrick)</figcaption></figure><p>Although Goffin and King’s writing career was a success, in 1968 their marriage ended, and King moved with their two daughters to Los Angeles, the new center of gravity for the recording industry. King had recorded a few singles as a solo artist during her years with Goffin; in Los Angeles she began to focus for the first time on building a career as a performer. A short-lived band, The City, recorded one album, now a collector’s item, before breaking up in 1969.</p> <figure id="attachment_30780" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-30780 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-626956407_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-30780 size-full lazyload" alt="July 8, 1971: American singer-songwriters James Taylor and Carole King. They are in London to perform at the Royal Festival Hall. (Photo by Jack Kay/Daily Express/Getty Images)" width="2280" height="3390" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-626956407_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-626956407_master-256x380.jpg 256w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-626956407_master-511x760.jpg 511w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-626956407_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">July 8, 1971: James Taylor and Carole King in London to perform at the Royal Festival Hall. (Jack Kay/Getty)</figcaption></figure><p>King was living in the hillside neighborhood of Laurel Canyon, overlooking the Sunset Strip and its legendary folk club, the Troubadour. Here, she formed friendships with other singer-songwriters, including James Taylor, Joni Mitchell and lyricist Toni Stern, who would become a frequent collaborator. In 1970 she married musician Charles Larkey. The couple would have a son and a daughter.</p> <figure id="attachment_30772" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-30772 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-85237515_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-30772 size-full lazyload" alt="1971: Carol King at home in Laurel Canyon, posing for her Tapestry LP cover. Although her first solo effort, "Writer," would prove to be a bust, her second album, "Tapestry," released in 1971, would go on to stay at No. 1 on the Billboard charts for a record-breaking 15 weeks; it stayed on the charts in some form for a stunning six years. "Tapestry" remained the longest-tenured album in the top spot until it was finally beaten out by Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in 1982. Some of the hits from "Tapestry" were earlier King compositions reclaimed in her own voice, such as "It's Too Late" and "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" She also added some new singles: "So Far Away," "I Feel the Earth Move" and "You've Got a Friend" (later a No. 1 hit for her friend James Taylor). Jim McCrary/Redferns)" width="2280" height="2280" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-85237515_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-85237515_master-190x190.jpg 190w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-85237515_master-380x380.jpg 380w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-85237515_master-760x760.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-85237515_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">1971: Carole King at home in Laurel Canyon, posing for her <em>Tapestry</em> album cover. Although her first solo effort, <em>Writer</em>, would prove to be a bust, her second album, <em>Tapestry</em>, released in 1971, would go on to stay at No. 1 on the Billboard charts for a record-breaking 15 weeks; it stayed on the charts in some form for a stunning six years. <em>Tapestry</em> remained the longest-tenured album in the top spot until it was finally beaten out by Michael Jackson’s <em>Thriller</em> in 1982. Some of the hits from <em>Tapestry</em> were earlier King compositions reclaimed in her own voice, such as “It’s Too Late” and “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” She also added some new singles: “So Far Away,” “I Feel the Earth Move” and “You’ve Got a Friend” (later a No. 1 hit for her close friend James Taylor). (Jim McCrary/Redferns)</figcaption></figure><p>Carole King’s first solo album, <em>Writer</em>, failed to chart in 1970, but her next effort would change everything. <em>Tapestry</em>, released in 1971, included re-interpretations of some of her previous hits for other artists, including “Will You Love Me Tomorrow” and “You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman,” as well as the new songs “I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet,” “It’s Too Late” and “You’ve Got a Friend.”</p> <figure id="attachment_30774" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-30774 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-101613139_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-30774 size-full lazyload" alt="March 1971: American singer-songwriter Carole King in record producer Lou Adler's office, holding the four Grammy Awards she received for her album "Tapestry," in Los Angeles, California. The album won the awards for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Song of the Year. (Jim McCrary/Redferns)" width="2280" height="3354" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-101613139_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-101613139_master-258x380.jpg 258w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-101613139_master-517x760.jpg 517w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-101613139_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">March 1971: American singer-songwriter Carole King in record producer Lou Adler’s office, holding the four Grammy Awards she received for her album <em>Tapestry</em>, in Los Angeles, California. The album won the awards for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Song of the Year. (Jim McCrary)</figcaption></figure><p>Carole King’s single of “It’s Too Late” went to Number One on the pop singles chart. as <em>Tapestry</em> was climbing the album charts. The album was the country’s bestseller for 15 consecutive weeks, and remained in the Top 100 for six years, selling 25 million copies worldwide. The album generated four Grammy Awards — a first for a female artist — Best Record (for the single, “It’s Too Late”), Best Song, Album of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. For the next 25 years, <em>Tapestry</em> remained the bestselling album by a female artist.</p> <p>King’s follow-up album, <em>Carole King: Music</em>, released in the last month of 1971, sold half a million copies in the first week, joining <em>Tapestry</em> in the Top 100 album charts and reaching Number One within a month of its release. It remained on the pop album chart for 44 weeks, eventually selling a million copies — a platinum record, in the industry’s terminology. Her next two albums, <em>Rhymes and Reasons</em> and <em>Fantasy,</em> were certified gold records for selling half a million copies each. At the peak of her fame and popularity in 1973, Carole King performed a free concert in New York’s Central Park, attended by over 100,000 people.</p> <figure id="attachment_30773" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-30773 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-85338184_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-30773 size-full lazyload" alt="1972: Carole King (Jim McCrary/Redferns)" width="2280" height="2274" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-85338184_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-85338184_master-190x190.jpg 190w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-85338184_master-380x380.jpg 380w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-85338184_master-760x758.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-85338184_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">1972: Carole King was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She is also the recipient of the 2013 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first women to be so honored.</figcaption></figure><p><em>Wrap Around Joy</em> sold half a million copies in its first year of release in 1974, and became the bestselling album in the country. Subsequent albums performed less well although King continued to record and collaborate with friends like James Taylor, David Crosby and Graham Nash, and resumed writing with her ex-husband, Gerry Goffin.</p> <p>In 1976 her marriage to Charles Larkey ended in divorce. The following year, Carole King moved to rural Idaho with a new songwriting partner, Rick Evers. The couple married, but after Evers turned violent, she removed herself and her children to Hawaii. Evers died of a drug overdose shortly thereafter. King made a permanent home on a ranch in Idaho and became active in environmental causes, including the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, testifying before Congress on behalf of the proposed Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act.</p> <figure id="attachment_30769" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-30769 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-50722617_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-30769 size-full lazyload" alt="1987: Carole King and her children, Sherry, Louise, Molly and Levi. (Time Life Pictures/DMI/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)" width="2280" height="1504" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-50722617_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-50722617_master-380x251.jpg 380w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-50722617_master-760x501.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-50722617_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">1987: Carole King and her children, Sherry, Louise, Molly and Levi. (Time Life Pictures/DMI/LIFE Picture Collection)</figcaption></figure><p>King continued recording through the 1980s and ‘90s and contributed songs to the soundtracks of <em>The Care Bears Movie</em>, <em>Murphy’s Romance</em>, <em>A League of Their Own</em>, and <em>You’ve Got Mail</em>. Over the years King has also made occasional appearances as an actress in film and on television. In the 1990s she appeared on Broadway in the musical <em>Blood Brothers</em>, and in Dublin, Ireland in Neil Simon’s <em>Brighton Beach Memoirs</em>.</p> <figure id="attachment_30782" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-30782 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/j-taylor-c-king-troubadour-credit-kevin-estrada.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-30782 size-full lazyload" alt="This concert special starring Carole King and James Taylor was filmed at their 2007 performances celebrating the 50th anniversary of Los Angeles’s famed Troubadour nightclub. At that club 40-some years ago, Taylor urged King to emerge as an artist from behind her piano, a seminal moment in the history of these pop singer-songwriter icons. King and Taylor performed 12 songs, including stunning performances of the pair’s most beloved hits, such as King’s "So Far Away," "It’s Too Late" and "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" as well as Taylor’s "Carolina in My Mind," "Sweet Baby James" and "Fire and Rain," to name just a few." width="2280" height="1660" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/j-taylor-c-king-troubadour-credit-kevin-estrada.jpg 2280w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/j-taylor-c-king-troubadour-credit-kevin-estrada-380x277.jpg 380w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/j-taylor-c-king-troubadour-credit-kevin-estrada-760x553.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/j-taylor-c-king-troubadour-credit-kevin-estrada.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">This concert special starring Carole King and James Taylor was filmed at their 2007 performances celebrating the 50th anniversary of Los Angeles’s famed Troubadour nightclub. At that club 40-some years ago, Taylor urged King to emerge as an artist from behind her piano, a seminal moment in the history of these pop singer-songwriter icons. King and Taylor performed 12 songs, including stunning performances of the pair’s most beloved hits, such as King’s “So Far Away,” “It’s Too Late” and “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?” as well as Taylor’s “Carolina in My Mind.”</figcaption></figure><p>At the beginning of the 21st century, King continued to record, perform and write, providing songs for both newer and more established artists, including k.d. lang, Steven Tyler, Celine Dion and Babyface. She toured the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and recorded a successful live album. In 2007 she reunited with James Taylor for a series of sold-out shows at the Troubadour, where their performing careers had first taken off. In 2010 they took their double act on a highly successful tour of the U.S. and Australia, and recorded an album, <em>Live at the Troubadour</em>, that sold over half a million copies and remained on the charts for 34 weeks.</p> <p>Carole King published her autobiography, <em>A Natural Woman</em>, in 2012. <em>The New York Times</em> bestseller made public for the first time the painful story of her abuse at the hands of third husband Rick Evers. King hoped that sharing her story would help other women to free themselves from abusive relationships.</p> <figure id="attachment_2913" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-2913 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wordpress_Academy_Feb2014_218.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-2913 size-full lazyload" alt="Carole King received the Gold Medal of the Academy of Achievement at a ceremony at Academy headquarters in Washington, D.C. on February 12, 2014." width="2280" height="3420" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wordpress_Academy_Feb2014_218.jpg 2280w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wordpress_Academy_Feb2014_218-253x380.jpg 253w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wordpress_Academy_Feb2014_218-507x760.jpg 507w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wordpress_Academy_Feb2014_218.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">February 2014: Carole King received the Gold Medal of the Academy of Achievement at a ceremony in Washington.</figcaption></figure><p>In recent years she has limited her recording and performing activities, although she continues to appear on behalf of causes she believes in, campaigning for presidential candidates John Kerry in 2004, Hillary Clinton in 2008 and Barack Obama in 2012. In 2013 she and James Taylor performed a benefit concert for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.</p> <figure id="attachment_30777" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-30777 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/gettyimages-500243652.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-30777 lazyload" alt="December 6, 2015: Actress Cicely Tyson, conductor Seiji Ozawa, actress and singer Rita Moreno, filmmaker George Lucas and singer-songwriter Carole King attend the Kennedy Center Honorees Reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. This is only the third time that Obama has spoken to the nation live from the Oval Office. (Photo by Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool/Getty Images)" width="2280" height="1599" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/gettyimages-500243652.jpg 2280w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/gettyimages-500243652-380x267.jpg 380w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/gettyimages-500243652-760x533.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/gettyimages-500243652.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2015: Actress Cicely Tyson, conductor Seiji Ozawa, actress and singer Rita Moreno, filmmaker George Lucas and songwriter Carole King attend the Kennedy Center Honorees Reception in the East Room of the White House.</figcaption></figure><p>In many ways 2013 was a banner year for King, with the premiere of the Broadway musical <em>Beautiful</em>, based on her life and music. The show was a popular success and won two Tony Awards. That year, she received a Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement and became the first female songwriter to receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, awarded personally by President Barack Obama. She received Kennedy Center Honors in 2015. The following year, she performed the entire <em>Tapestry</em> album live for the first time, at an outdoor concert in London’s Hyde Park.</p> <figure id="attachment_30779" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-30779 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-540485882_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-30779 lazyload" alt="June 15, 2016: Chilina Kennedy and Carole King backstage celebrating the 1000th performance of "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" at Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York City. (Photo by Walter McBride/WireImage)" width="2280" height="2304" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-540485882_master.jpg 2280w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-540485882_master-376x380.jpg 376w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-540485882_master-752x760.jpg 752w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-540485882_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">June 15, 2016: Chilina Kennedy and Carole King backstage celebrating the 1000th performance of <em>Beautiful: The Carole King Musical</em> at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York City. (Photo by Walter McBride/WireImage)</figcaption></figure><p>In a composing career spanning six decades, Carole King has had more than 400 songs recorded by well over 1,000 artists, resulting in well more than 100 hit singles. No matter what changes occur in public taste, technology, or the economics of the music business in the years to come, singers and instrumentalists will continue to record and perform the songs of Carole King, and listeners will be as moved by them in the next century as they were in the last.</p> </body></html> <div class="clearfix"> </div> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" id="profile" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <header class="editorial-article__header"> <figure class="text-xs-center"> <img class="inductee-badge" src="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/themes/aoa/assets/images/inducted-badge@2x.png" alt="Inducted Badge" width="120" height="120"/> <figcaption class="serif-3 text-brand-primary"> Inducted in 2014 </figcaption> </figure> </header> <div class="row"> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <dl class="clearfix m-b-0"> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Career</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> <div><a href="/web/20170621213002/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/#filter=.singer">Singer</a></div> </dd> </div> <div class="col-xs-12 sidebar--chunk p-b-2"> <dt class="serif-7">Date of Birth</dt> <dd class="sans-2"> February 9, 1942 </dd> </div> </dl> </aside> <article class="col-md-8 editorial-article clearfix"> <p>The most successful and admired female songwriter in the history of pop music, Carole King proves that one woman alone at the piano can be more powerful than a four-piece rock band or a 30-piece orchestra. At age 18, she scored her first Number One hit record – the first of 118 pop hits on the Billboard charts, including such classics as “Will You Love Me<span data-term="goog_353237228">Tomorrow</span>,” “The Loco-Motion,” “Up on the Roof,” It’s Too Late, Baby,” “I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet,” “You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman” and “You’ve Got a Friend.”</p> <p>To date, she has recorded 25 solo albums, the most successful of which, <em>Tapestry</em>, sold 25 million copies, and for a quarter of a century held the record for a female artist for most weeks at the top of the charts. The recipient of the 2013 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2013 Gershwin Prize, she is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.</p> <p>For more than a half century, she has given voice to her innermost truth, and struck a resounding chord in the hearts of listeners around the world. Composer and performer, author and activist, she has brought the same passion, courage and unyielding honesty to her life, to her work, and to her defense of the woods and wildlife of her beloved Rocky Mountains.</p> </article> </div> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" id="interview" role="tabpanel"> <section class="clearfix"> <div class="col-md-12 interview-feature-video"> <figure> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qo9tDqRecOg?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/King-Carole-2014-XDCAM.00_01_14_02.Still002-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/King-Carole-2014-XDCAM.00_01_14_02.Still002-760x428.jpg"></div> <div class="video-tag sans-4"> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> <div class="video-tag__text">Watch full interview</div> </div> </div> </figure> </div> <header class="col-md-12 text-xs-center m-b-2"> <i class="icon-icon_bio text-brand-primary"></i> </header> <aside class="col-md-4 sidebar"> <h2 class="serif-3 achiever--biography-subtitle">Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement</h2> <div class="sans-2">Washington, D.C.</div> <div class="sans-2">February 12, 2014</div> </aside> <article class="editorial-article col-md-8">   <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_30767" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption alignright"><noscript><img class="wp-image-30767 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CK-Family-Portrait-1947-EG.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-30767 size-full lazyload" alt="1947: Carole King and parents Eugenia and Sidney Klein." width="2280" height="2913" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CK-Family-Portrait-1947-EG.jpg 2280w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CK-Family-Portrait-1947-EG-297x380.jpg 297w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CK-Family-Portrait-1947-EG-595x760.jpg 595w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CK-Family-Portrait-1947-EG.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">1947: Carole King and parents Eugenia and Sidney Klein.</figcaption></figure><p><strong>So, in reading your book, you say that your mother exposed you to music while you were still in her womb. Why?</strong></p> <p>Carole King: My mother loved music and she had an eclectic collection of classical and show tunes and some popular music. So she just loved it and always listened to it, so I was exposed to it in the womb and as a child. I loved music and it made a lot of sense to me the gift that I have for it. I was able to understand it and learn it and recreate it.</p> <p><strong>You said that her mother actually encouraged her to be in music or theater or play the piano.</strong></p> <p>Carole King: It was important to my grandmother to have music in the house. My grandmother grew up in Russia and in her little small village, she was — my grandmother was the daughter of a baker and they didn’t have a lot of money. In her village, the girls with a lot of money her age had pianos in their living rooms. And so she dreamed that her daughter would play piano and she exposed my mother to music. And my mother’s real affinity was theater, but she learned enough music to pass on to me.</p> <figure id="attachment_30750" style="width: 750px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-30750 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17yearold-Carole-King-4.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-30750 size-full lazyload" alt="Carole King at a recording session at RCA Studio B in New York City, when she was just 17. At that age, she married Gerry Goffin in a Jewish ceremony on Long Island in August 1959, after King had become pregnant with her first daughter, Louise. They left college and took daytime jobs, Goffin working as an assistant chemist and King as a secretary, while writing songs together in the evening at an office belonging to Don Kirshner’s Aldon Music at 1650 Broadway, opposite the Brill Building." width="750" height="482" data-sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17yearold-Carole-King-4.jpg 750w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17yearold-Carole-King-4-380x244.jpg 380w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17yearold-Carole-King-4.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">Carole King at a recording session at RCA Studio B in New York City, when she was just 17 years old. She married Gerry Goffin in Long Island in August 1959, after King had become pregnant with her first daughter, Louise. They left college and took daytime jobs, Goffin working as an assistant chemist and King as a secretary, while writing songs together in the evening at an office belonging to Don Kirshner’s Aldon Music at 1650 Broadway in New York.</figcaption></figure><p><strong>Could you tell us about your first recording?</strong></p> <p>Carole King: The first recording I ever made was “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” in a little recording booth in Coney Island. And I just remember it because, you know, I was with my mom and my dad and it was — it was a great experience, except that at the end for some reason I broke down crying. I was three, two or three.</p> <p><strong>Why did you cry?</strong></p> <p>Carole King: I don’t know. Because I was two or three probably.</p> <p><strong>At age four you started learning how to play the piano.   Did you parents tell you that you were gifted?</strong></p> <p>Carole King: I don’t know if they told me I was gifted, and I don’t know if I knew I was gifted. I just liked it. I had almost perfect pitch.</p> <figure id="attachment_30748" style="width: 750px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-30748 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17-year-old-Carole-King-2.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-30748 size-full lazyload" alt="Carole King at a recording session at RCA Studio B in New York City, when she was just 17. At that age, she married Gerry Goffin in a Jewish ceremony on Long Island in August 1959, after King had become pregnant with her first daughter, Louise. They left college and took daytime jobs, Goffin working as an assistant chemist and King as a secretary, while writing songs together in the evening at an office belonging to Don Kirshner’s Aldon Music at 1650 Broadway, opposite the Brill Building." width="750" height="1145" data-sizes="(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17-year-old-Carole-King-2.jpg 750w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17-year-old-Carole-King-2-249x380.jpg 249w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17-year-old-Carole-King-2-498x760.jpg 498w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17-year-old-Carole-King-2.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">During the 1960s, with Carole King writing the music and Gerry Goffin the lyrics, the two wrote a string of classic songs for a wide variety of artists. Their hits included “The Loco-Motion,” “Up on the Roof,” and “One Fine Day.”</figcaption></figure><p><strong>What about the radio? Did that inspire you?</strong></p> <p>Carole King: Well, the radio was quite a wonderful thing. This was before television. One of the things I loved about radio is it stirred the imagination because you were only hearing it. You weren’t seeing what someone else thought you should see. And I remember many years later when MTV came along and they started making videos of songs. They really took away our ability to imagine for ourselves what — what the song evoked in each of us.</p> <p><strong>Were music and the arts something that your whole family valued?</strong></p> <p>Carole King: My mother always had an affinity for theater, which included music but her love was for — she wrote plays, she acted in them, she directed them. This was — she didn’t make a career out of it because her career at the time was being a homemaker and raising me.</p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/-RrYVTQo_po?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/King-Carole-2014-XDCAM.00_11_08_24.Still006-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/King-Carole-2014-XDCAM.00_11_08_24.Still006-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20170621213002/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/perseverance/">Perseverance</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>I wrote a book about my journey called <em>The Natural Woman</em>. And I was able to see in writing the book all the different things that — different experiences I had that were unique to me, that informed who I am, and who I am now. As of this interview, I’m 72 years old, officially turned 72 earlier this week. And the journey includes having grown up and not thinking of myself as beautiful in the sense that most young girls were expected to be beautiful. There was an ideal that we were held to. I didn’t feel beautiful when I was growing up. And I found my niche. I couldn’t compete with girls who were thought of as beautiful, so I found my niche in music. And that was where I found my beauty. And I always knew I could do that. I always felt confident in doing that. And then as I grew up, I brought other, you know, insecurities, but I always knew that my music worked.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_30770" style="width: 2007px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><noscript><img class="wp-image-30770 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-74279809_master.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-30770 size-full lazyload" alt="1959: Husband and wife songwriting team Carole King and Gerry Goffin in RCA recording studio in New York City. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)" width="2007" height="2984" data-sizes="(max-width: 2007px) 100vw, 2007px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-74279809_master.jpg 2007w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-74279809_master-256x380.jpg 256w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-74279809_master-511x760.jpg 511w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-74279809_master.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">1959: Husband and wife songwriting team Carole King and Gerry Goffin in RCA recording studio in New York City.</figcaption></figure><p>I married a lyricist. My first husband was a lyricist. And I wasn’t even thinking about being beautiful then. I was thinking about writing songs, and in that there was beauty. One of the things I admired about him was he had really — he’s still alive, but I’m thinking that we — he had great intelligence and he exposed me to ways of thinking about — I always liked to read. I always liked to go to plays. But he had a sensibility — my mother had the same sensibility. It was an understanding. I’m more instinctive about my understanding of things. They had the instinct of understanding, but also the ability to verbalize it, and make it an intellectual experience to talk about it. And I learned so much from Gerry and from my mother. And all of that went to inform my learning process. And then…</p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/xC07gMAipHs?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/King-Carole-2014-XDCAM.00_09_26_06.Still005-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/King-Carole-2014-XDCAM.00_09_26_06.Still005-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20170621213002/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/perseverance/">Perseverance</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>When Gerry and I eventually divorced, I had to find my own voice and my own way of thinking, but I brought to my life what I have learned from him. And I became a lyricist along with being a musician. The music was always there for me, always, always. It still is. It’s like I cannot do it for six months and when I need it, it just comes rushing out because that’s what I do. But the lyric writing, the understanding of intellectual processes that, you know — a Truman Capote play, for example, or, you know, there are just layers upon layers that I didn’t really understand but came to learn.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_30766" style="width: 2272px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="wp-image-30766 size-full " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carole-R06F04.jpg"></noscript><img class="wp-image-30766 size-full lazyload" alt="1971: James Taylor and Carole King at the A&M Records studio." width="2272" height="1500" data-sizes="(max-width: 2272px) 100vw, 2272px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carole-R06F04.jpg 2272w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carole-R06F04-380x251.jpg 380w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carole-R06F04-760x502.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carole-R06F04.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">1971: James Taylor and Carole King at the A&M Records studio. In 2010, King and Taylor staged their Troubadour Reunion Tour together, recalling the first time they played The Troubadour in West Hollywood in 1970. It was a major commercial success with Carole King playing to some of the largest audiences of her career. Total ticket sales exceeded 700,000 and the tour grossed $60 million, making it one of the most successful tours of the year.</figcaption></figure><p>And then as I went through life and had other experiences, the experience of having success as a songwriter, it’s like, “Wow, this is great.” And becoming a singer. I was nudged into that by James Taylor, who taught me how to perform. Lou Adler, who gave me the confidence to make a recording as a recording artist on my own. I never wanted to be an artist. So now I’m a recording artist, and then I’m a performing artist. And all of this kind of unrolled. I never really had ambitions to do more than be a really good songwriter.</p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/5pceA66H6-s?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/King-Carole-2014-XDCAM.00_08_56_09.Still004-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/King-Carole-2014-XDCAM.00_08_56_09.Still004-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20170621213002/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/passion/">Passion</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>This is a journey, and alongside that journey my life experiences brought me to working on issues. I started out with Gerry working on civil rights issues in the ’60s. And then in the ’70s, you know, we demonstrated against the war, probably the late ’60s, but definitely ’70s as well. Late ’60s — it would have had to be actually mid-’60s. And then I gradually got involved in politics, not as a candidate, but working with people who had the power to make change. And that became really such an important part of my life, so important to me. It was a part of my life that wasn’t as public, but it’s so much a part of me. And as my two worlds developed together, I found my beauty and my purpose and my meaning and I found an understanding of all that.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_30760" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-30760 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carole-163.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-30760 lazyload" alt="April 22, 1971: Carole concentrates on working out a song in A&M photo studio during Cashbox trade magazine cover session. (Jim McCrary)" width="2280" height="2304" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carole-163.jpg 2280w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carole-163-376x380.jpg 376w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carole-163-752x760.jpg 752w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carole-163.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">April 22, 1971: Carole working out a song in A&M studio during <em>Cashbox</em> magazine cover session. (Jim McCrary)</figcaption></figure></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/md99-MAHbeI?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/King-Carole-2014-XDCAM.00_02_32_09.Still003-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/King-Carole-2014-XDCAM.00_02_32_09.Still003-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20170621213002/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/integrity/">Integrity</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>So, as I sit here at 72, and I look back at my life, I realize, first of all, gratitude is my daily word. That is in my life, every cell of my body, every day. I just feel it all the time. And I’ve had a wonderful life so far. And, hopefully, I will continue to do that. And my goal in life — you know, people say, “What legacy do you want to leave?” Somebody asked me that recently. And the legacy I have left musically, I didn’t — I wanted to leave a musical legacy, but it more — it happened more than my pushing it. But the other thing that I do work on along with gratitude every day is being a mensch, being a good person. That is what drives me every day, to be a good person and try to realize the potential in this life with all the blessings that I’ve been given. Make it matter so that it carries forward to other people. And the opportunity to speak with you about this, hopefully, that will carry forward to other people.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><p><strong>You began to pursue a music career when you were so young. Where did you get that confidence?</strong></p> <p>Carole King: I have a level of chutzpah in that if there’s something that I would like to achieve, I don’t do it with arrogance but I think “Someone’s going to make it, why don’t I — you know, why not me?” And if you don’t try, you’ll never know. Maybe you could have achieved it. So there is that level of, “go for it.”</p> <figure id="attachment_30754" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-30754 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/465330023-2014-Grammys.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-30754 lazyload" alt="2014: Musicians Carole King and Sara Bareilles speak onstage during the 56th Grammy Awards at Staples Center in Los Angeles. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)" width="2280" height="1531" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/465330023-2014-Grammys.jpg 2280w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/465330023-2014-Grammys-380x255.jpg 380w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/465330023-2014-Grammys-760x510.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/465330023-2014-Grammys.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2014: Carole King and Sara Bareilles speak onstage during the 56th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. (Getty Images)</figcaption></figure><p><strong>Could you tell us how you met Don Costa and what his influence was?</strong></p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/teKkO6hRiXk?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/King-Carole-2014-XDCAM.00_01_14_02.Still002-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/King-Carole-2014-XDCAM.00_01_14_02.Still002-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20170621213002/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/courage/">Courage</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>Carole King: I was a teenager when I first started going to record companies in New York. I was 15 and I loved the people that were making records then. And I thought, “Well, I want to do that too.” Not as an artist, but as a songwriter. And maybe at that time I thought, “Well, maybe I can sing them.” But I didn’t want to be a star or anything. I just wanted people to hear my music. And so I called up record companies and got appointments, because in those days you could. It was in the mid-’50s and you could get appointments. The music industry wasn’t a mammoth industry the way it is now. And there were things called A&R men, which were Artist and Repertoire — the people that actually knew music made the decisions and they had pianos in their offices. So I went for it and Don Costa recognized some talent. Don Costa was an A&R man. He was an arranger, producer, and he recognized my ability and let me make records and put them out.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_30744" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-30744 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/%C2%ACElissaKline-CK_Idaho_NF_March_-030714_092t.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-30744 lazyload" alt="2014: Carole King at her ranch in Idaho. Set within the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, the 128-acre Robinson Bar Ranch has belonged to King for more than three decades. (Elissa Kline)" width="2280" height="3420" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/¬ElissaKline-CK_Idaho_NF_March_-030714_092t.jpg 2280w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/¬ElissaKline-CK_Idaho_NF_March_-030714_092t-253x380.jpg 253w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/¬ElissaKline-CK_Idaho_NF_March_-030714_092t-507x760.jpg 507w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/¬ElissaKline-CK_Idaho_NF_March_-030714_092t.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2014: Carole King at her 128-acre ranch in Idaho, set within the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. (Elissa Kline)</figcaption></figure><p><strong>A couple of years ago, Paul McCartney was in town to get the Gershwin Award, and he told a group of people that he woke up one day with “Yesterday” in his head. He went into the studio with John Lennon and said, “Do you know this song?” “No, I don’t know this song.” Where does that kind of inspiration come from? Is it something that you nurture or do you need a muse, someone to work with?</strong></p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/zGTYemoyEIc?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/King-Carole-2014-XDCAM.00_02_32_09.Still003-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/King-Carole-2014-XDCAM.00_02_32_09.Still003-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20170621213002/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/vision/">Vision</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>Carole King: Creativity comes in different ways. I’ve written with co-writers, and there’s a wonderful spark that happens when you write with a co-writer. Somebody, one of the two of you, it doesn’t matter which, says — puts out an idea and the other one, you know. It’s like any collaboration. You know, business people collaborate. There is that. There’s an idea. I don’t know where that comes from. That’s out of thin air.</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_30793" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-30793 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp-King-Carole-State-Department-FullSizeRender-002.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-30793 lazyload" alt="December 5, 2015: Carole King makes remarks at the Kennedy Center Honors Dinner in the Ben Franklin Room of the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. " width="2280" height="1710" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp-King-Carole-State-Department-FullSizeRender-002.jpg 2280w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp-King-Carole-State-Department-FullSizeRender-002-380x285.jpg 380w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp-King-Carole-State-Department-FullSizeRender-002-760x570.jpg 760w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp-King-Carole-State-Department-FullSizeRender-002.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">December 5, 2015: Carole King makes remarks at the Kennedy Center Honors Dinner in the Benjamin Franklin Room of the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. Standing beside her is longtime friend James Taylor.</figcaption></figure><p><strong>You’ve written, “To this day, I can think of no greater musical joy than to hear a song arrangement come to life with instruments and voices.” Can you tell us what it’s like to hear your song on the radio?</strong></p> <p>Carole King: There are different stages.</p></body></html> </div>     <div class="achiever__video-block"> <figure class="achiever__interview-video"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"> <iframe class="embed-responsive-item embed-responsive--has-thumbnail" width="200" height="150" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002if_/https://www.youtube.com/embed/u7KhgCrr0gQ?feature=oembed&autohide=1&hd=1&color=white&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&theme=light" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="embed-responsive__thumbnail ratio-container__image lazyload" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/King-Carole-2014-XDCAM.00_08_56_09.Still004-380x214.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/King-Carole-2014-XDCAM.00_08_56_09.Still004-760x428.jpg"></div> <i class="embed-responsive__play icon-icon_play-full text-brand-primary"></i> </div> <figcaption class="achiever__interview-video-terms"> <span>Keys to success —</span> <a class="comma-item" href="/web/20170621213002/http://www.achievement.org/keys-to-success/passion/">Passion</a> </figcaption> </figure>  <div class="achiever__interview-video__copy"> <p>Hearing your song on the radio is a big piece of it. You suddenly know, “Oh, my God, a whole lot of people are going to hear this.” But the stage for me is like — first of all, when an idea comes and I work on it and I shape it and, you know, it’s just a flowing thing that at the end of which, you know, I keep — I’ll reject something and then something will come in and I’ll fix it. So there’s — there’s inspiration, but there’s also the perspiration part where you actually craft a song. And then when I’m finished, I actually know when I’m finished. Some people say, “I’d work on it till they take it away from me.” But I actually know when it’s ready. And once it’s ready, that’s a first, “Oh, a song, where there was a nothing!” And then the playing of it for the first person you play it for, and you see in the person’s face and their reaction to it what you hoped you would see. That’s another level of appreciation that you go, “Oh, they like it!”</p> </div> </div>      <div class="achiever__interview-copy"> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><body><figure id="attachment_30755" style="width: 2280px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-30755 " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002im_/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/530455254-Taylor-Honored-At-64th-Annual-BMI-Pop-Awards.jpg"></noscript><img class="size-full wp-image-30755 lazyload" alt="2016: Songwriter Carole King and honoree Taylor Swift attend the 64th Annual BMI Pop Awards, honoring Taylor Swift and songwriting duo Mann & Weil, at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. (Lester Cohen/Getty Images for BMI)" width="2280" height="3029" data-sizes="(max-width: 2280px) 100vw, 2280px" data-srcset="/web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/530455254-Taylor-Honored-At-64th-Annual-BMI-Pop-Awards.jpg 2280w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/530455254-Taylor-Honored-At-64th-Annual-BMI-Pop-Awards-286x380.jpg 286w, /web/20170621213002im_/http://www.achievement.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/530455254-Taylor-Honored-At-64th-Annual-BMI-Pop-Awards-572x760.jpg 572w" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170621213002/http://162.243.3.155/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/530455254-Taylor-Honored-At-64th-Annual-BMI-Pop-Awards.jpg"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text">2016: Songwriter Carole King and honoree Taylor Swift attend the 64th Annual BMI Pop Awards, honoring Taylor Swift and songwriting duo Mann & Weil, at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.</figcaption></figure><p>And then you record it, and that’s what you mentioned that I wrote about. The joy of imagining how an instrument would sound because it’s just me and my piano. And then it’s — all the things I hear that — a drumbeat, a guitar figure, violins, background vocals. And when you kind of hear them in your head, but, you know, then you actually hear them come to life and they’re better than you even imagined. That level of realizing. And then if I’m not the singer — and back in the early days I was never the singer. You give it to a recording artist who sings it and you go, “I can’t sing that well.” And by the way, I know I’m a good singer now, but — and what I bring to a performance is authenticity. But I can’t make those notes that Celine Dion or Aretha Franklin make. So hearing them sing those notes that I know I wanted to sing — sing them the way I wanted to, or to hear James sing “You’ve Got a Friend,” and the way that I imagined it might sound. That’s another level. And then the last stage is like hearing it on the radio or realizing that hundreds, thousands, millions of people are hearing it and that it’s meaningful to them. That’s — those are the stages. And it all starts with that little spark of idea that comes from whoever, whatever, wherever, through me.</p> <p><strong>This has been terrific. Thank you very much.</strong></p> <p>Carole King: Thank you.</p></body></html> </div>  </aside>  </article> </section> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" id="gallery" role="tabpanel"> <section class="isotope-wrapper">  <header class="toolbar toolbar--gallery bg-white clearfix"> <div class="col-md-6"> <div class="serif-4">Carole King Gallery</div> </div> <div class="col-md-6 text-md-right isotope-toolbar"> <ul class="list-unstyled list-inline m-b-0 text-brand-primary sans-4"> <li class="list-inline-item" data-filter=".photo"><i class="icon-icon_camera"></i>45 photos</li> </ul> </div> </header> <div class="isotope-gallery isotope-box single-achiever__gallery clearfix"> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.70131578947368" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/la-et-ms-carole-king-sara-bareilles-duet-gramm-001.jpg" data-image-caption="2014: One of the highlights of the 2014 Grammy Awards ceremony was the meeting of singer-songwriter generations with the teaming of Carole King and Sara Bareilles for a medley of King’s “Beautiful” and Bareilles’ “Brave,” her Grammy-nominated anthem of empowerment. Without a single pyrotechnic effect, King and Bareilles sparkled in one of the night's most enduring musical moments." data-image-copyright="la-et-ms-carole-king-sara-bareilles-duet-gramm-001" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/la-et-ms-carole-king-sara-bareilles-duet-gramm-001-380x266.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/la-et-ms-carole-king-sara-bareilles-duet-gramm-001-760x533.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.0187667560322" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-151884599_master.jpg" data-image-caption="1963: Little Eva (Eva Narcissus Boyd) poses for a portrait with producer Al Nevins, songwriter Carole King, songwriter Gerry Goffin and producer Don Kirshner in New York City. (PoPsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Little Eva" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-151884599_master-373x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-151884599_master-746x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4872798434442" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-74279809_master.jpg" data-image-caption="1959: Husband and wife songwriting team Carole King and Gerry Goffin in RCA recording studio in New York City. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Songwriting Team Carole King and Gerry Goffin" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-74279809_master-256x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-74279809_master-511x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-85237515_master.jpg" data-image-caption="1971: Carol King at home in Laurel Canyon, posing for her Tapestry LP cover. Although her first solo effort, "Writer," would prove to be a bust, her second album, "Tapestry," released in 1971, would go on to stay at No. 1 on the Billboard charts for a record-breaking 15 weeks; it stayed on the charts in some form for a stunning six years. "Tapestry" remained the longest-tenured album in the top spot until it was finally beaten out by Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in 1982. Some of the hits from "Tapestry" were earlier King compositions reclaimed in her own voice, such as "It's Too Late" and "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" She also added some new singles: "So Far Away," "I Feel the Earth Move" and "You've Got a Friend" (later a No. 1 hit for her friend James Taylor). Jim McCrary/Redferns)" data-image-copyright="Photo of Carole KING" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-85237515_master-380x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-85237515_master-760x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.2773109243697" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CK-Family-Portrait-1947-EG.jpg" data-image-caption="1947: Carole King and parents Eugenia and Sidney Klein." data-image-copyright="1947: Carole King and parents Eugenia and Sidney Klein." data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CK-Family-Portrait-1947-EG-297x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CK-Family-Portrait-1947-EG-595x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp-_gallery_CK_Ranch_Studio_Color.jpg" data-image-caption="2011: Carole King at her Robinson Bar Ranch recording studio in Stanley, Idaho." data-image-copyright="2011: Carole King at her Robinson Bar Ranch recording studio in Stanley, Idaho." data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp-_gallery_CK_Ranch_Studio_Color-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp-_gallery_CK_Ranch_Studio_Color-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4700193423598" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-101613139_master.jpg" data-image-caption="March 1971: American singer-songwriter Carole King in record producer Lou Adler's office, holding the four Grammy Awards she received for her album "Tapestry," in Los Angeles, California. The album won the awards for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and Song of the Year. (Jim McCrary/Redferns)" data-image-copyright="Carole King" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-101613139_master-258x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-101613139_master-517x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.0146862483311" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/the-city.jpg" data-image-caption="Cover of "Now That Everything's Been Said," Carole King's album with the group The City, released in 1968." data-image-copyright="the-city" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/the-city-375x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/the-city-749x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.501976284585" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/photo-1-creditjamesomara.jpg" data-image-caption="2010: Carole King and James Taylor first collaborated in 1970 and reunited for the Troubadour Tour, named for the club in Los Angeles where the two first performed together in 1970." data-image-copyright="photo-1-creditjamesomara" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/photo-1-creditjamesomara-253x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/photo-1-creditjamesomara-506x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Pearls-Songs-Of-Goffin-And-King-cover.jpg" data-image-caption=""Pearls: Songs of Goffin and King" is an album by American singer-songwriter Carole King, released in 1980. It produced her hit "One Fine Day," which reached #12 on the charts." data-image-copyright="pearls-songs-of-goffin-and-king-cover" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Pearls-Songs-Of-Goffin-And-King-cover-380x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Pearls-Songs-Of-Goffin-And-King-cover-760x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.75" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp-King-Carole-State-Department-FullSizeRender-002.jpg" data-image-caption="December 5, 2015: Carole King makes remarks at the Kennedy Center Honors Dinner in the Ben Franklin Room of the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. " data-image-copyright="wp-king-carole-state-department-fullsizerender-002" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp-King-Carole-State-Department-FullSizeRender-002-380x285.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp-King-Carole-State-Department-FullSizeRender-002-760x570.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.71447368421053" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/la-et-cm-grammys-2015-musical-theater-album-beautiful-carole-king-musical-20150208.jpg" data-image-caption="2015: Carole King, right, sings with Jessie Mueller, star of "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical," at the 68th annual Tony Awards. The Broadway cast recording of "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" won the Grammy Award for Musical Theater Album. Steve Sidwell and Billy Jay Stein, who produced the musical with Jason Howland, accepted the award, given out as part of a pre-telecast ceremony at the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. The musical, which premiered at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York in January 2014, tells the life story of King, including her troubled marriage to songwriting partner Gerry Goffin and their songwriting rivalry with Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann. The musical earned a Tony Award for its star, Jessie Mueller. A touring production ran at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles from June 22 to July 17, 2016. (Evan Agostini, AP)" data-image-copyright="la-et-cm-grammys-2015-musical-theater-album-beautiful-carole-king-musical-20150208" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/la-et-cm-grammys-2015-musical-theater-album-beautiful-carole-king-musical-20150208-380x271.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/la-et-cm-grammys-2015-musical-theater-album-beautiful-carole-king-musical-20150208-760x543.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4990138067061" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/KING-CAROLE_Academy_Feb2014_218.jpg" data-image-caption="February 12, 2014: Carole King was inducted into the Academy of Achievement at Academy headquarters in Washington, D.C. (© Academy of Achievement)" data-image-copyright="king-carole_academy_feb2014_218" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/KING-CAROLE_Academy_Feb2014_218-253x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/KING-CAROLE_Academy_Feb2014_218-507x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.72763157894737" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/j-taylor-c-king-troubadour-credit-kevin-estrada.jpg" data-image-caption="This concert special starring Carole King and James Taylor was filmed at their 2007 performances celebrating the 50th anniversary of Los Angeles’s famed Troubadour nightclub. At that club 40-some years ago, Taylor urged King to emerge as an artist from behind her piano, a seminal moment in the history of these pop singer-songwriter icons. King and Taylor performed 12 songs, including stunning performances of the pair’s most beloved hits, such as King’s "So Far Away," "It’s Too Late" and "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" as well as Taylor’s "Carolina in My Mind," "Sweet Baby James" and "Fire and Rain," to name just a few." data-image-copyright="j-taylor-c-king-troubadour-credit-kevin-estrada" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/j-taylor-c-king-troubadour-credit-kevin-estrada-380x277.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/j-taylor-c-king-troubadour-credit-kevin-estrada-760x553.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Goffin_king-4-low.jpg" data-image-caption="This bumper collection of numbers penned by revered New Yorkers Gerry Goffin and his wife Carole King includes familiar hits (the Shirelles’ "What A Sweet Thing That Was," Bobby Vee’s "Sharing You," the Cookies’ "Will Power," the Drifters’ "When My Little Girl Is Smiling," overlooked gems (the Hondells’ "Show Me Girl," the Hearts & Flowers’ "Road To Nowhere," Walter Jackson’s "Anything Can Happen") and some new-to-CD rarities (‘You Turn Me On, Boy" by the Honey Bees, the Orlons’ "Keep Your Hands Off My Baby," the Clovers’ "The Sheik" and Theola Kilgore’s "It’s Gonna Be Alright"). By 1968 Carole and Gerry had moved from the East Coast and were living apart in Los Angeles, where Carole formed the group The City. "Snow Queen" (heard here in a rare version by the Tokens) and "That Old Sweet Roll (Hi-De-Ho)" (here by Dusty Springfield, one of the Goffins’ biggest champions), were among the six Goffin and King songs on “Now That Everything’s Been Said,” The City’s album. After their divorce, Carole and Gerry did resume writing together, although much less prolifically than before. (Mick Patrick)" data-image-copyright="goffin_king-4-low" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Goffin_king-4-low-380x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Goffin_king-4-low-760x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.3333333333333" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp-FullSizeRender-004.jpg" data-image-caption="December 5, 2015: Carole King and Aretha Franklin at the Kennedy Center Honors Dinner in the Ben Franklin Room of the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. The tribute performance included James Taylor, and a show-stopping performance of “(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman” by the incomparable Aretha Franklin that brought President Barak Obama to tears." data-image-copyright="wp-fullsizerender-004" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp-FullSizeRender-004-285x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp-FullSizeRender-004-570x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4872798434442" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-626956407_master.jpg" data-image-caption="July 8, 1971: American singer-songwriters James Taylor and Carole King. They are in London to perform at the Royal Festival Hall. (Photo by Jack Kay/Daily Express/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="James Taylor And Carole King" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-626956407_master-256x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-626956407_master-511x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.0106382978723" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-540485882_master.jpg" data-image-caption="June 15, 2016: Chilina Kennedy and Carole King backstage celebrating the 1000th performance of "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" at Stephen Sondheim Theatre in New York City. (Photo by Walter McBride/WireImage)" data-image-copyright=""Beautiful - The Carole King Musical" Celebrates 1000 Performances On Broadway" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-540485882_master-376x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-540485882_master-752x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.70131578947368" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/gettyimages-500243652.jpg" data-image-caption="December 6, 2015: Actress Cicely Tyson, conductor Seiji Ozawa, actress and singer Rita Moreno, filmmaker George Lucas and singer-songwriter Carole King attend the Kennedy Center Honorees Reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. This is only the third time that Obama has spoken to the nation live from the Oval Office. (Photo by Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Obama Fetes Kennedy Center Honorees" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/gettyimages-500243652-380x267.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/gettyimages-500243652-760x533.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.70263157894737" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/gettyimages-473388284.jpg" data-image-caption="2015: Musician Carole King performs onstage during SeriousFun Children's Network Los Angeles Gala: An Evening of SeriousFun celebrating the legacy of Paul Newman in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for SeriousFun Children's Network)" data-image-copyright="SeriousFun Children's Network 2015 Los Angeles Gala: An Evening Of SeriousFun Celebrating The Legacy Of Paul Newman" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/gettyimages-473388284-380x267.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/gettyimages-473388284-760x534.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.99736842105263" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-85338184_master.jpg" data-image-caption="1972: Carole King (Jim McCrary/Redferns)" data-image-copyright="Photo of Carole KING" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-85338184_master-380x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-85338184_master-760x758.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.2947189097104" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp_CaroleKing_GeneralPress_2_credit_JimMcCrary_20120327_170008.jpg" data-image-caption="Carole King (Jim McCrary)" data-image-copyright="Carole King (Jim McCrary)" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp_CaroleKing_GeneralPress_2_credit_JimMcCrary_20120327_170008-294x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/wp_CaroleKing_GeneralPress_2_credit_JimMcCrary_20120327_170008-587x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.65921052631579" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-50722617_master.jpg" data-image-caption="1987: Carole King and her children, Sherry, Louise, Molly and Levi. (Time Life Pictures/DMI/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Carole King [&amp; Family]" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-50722617_master-380x251.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/GettyImages-50722617_master-760x501.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4728682170543" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/da41d38cad1c2873cc76421ebdf8d37b.jpg" data-image-caption="1972: American singer-songwriters James Taylor and Carole King. (Keystone/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="King And Taylor" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/da41d38cad1c2873cc76421ebdf8d37b-258x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/da41d38cad1c2873cc76421ebdf8d37b-516x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66052631578947" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carole-R06F04.jpg" data-image-caption="1971: James Taylor and Carole King at the A&M Records studio." data-image-copyright="1971: James Taylor and Carole King at the A&M Records studio." data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carole-R06F04-380x251.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carole-R06F04-760x502.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.70657894736842" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/151207-kennedycenterhonorees-editorial.jpg" data-image-caption="2015 Kennedy Center Honorees: "Star Wars" creator George Lucas, EGOT winner and actress Rita Moreno, legendary actress Cicely Tyson, singer-songwriter Carole King, and renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa." data-image-copyright="151207-kennedycenterhonorees-editorial" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/151207-kennedycenterhonorees-editorial-380x269.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/151207-kennedycenterhonorees-editorial-760x537.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66447368421053" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CaroleKing_GeneralPress_1_credit_JimMcCrary_20120327_165932.jpg" data-image-caption="1971: Carole King at the A&M Records studio. (Jim McCrary)" data-image-copyright="Carole King (Jim McCrary)" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CaroleKing_GeneralPress_1_credit_JimMcCrary_20120327_165932-380x252.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CaroleKing_GeneralPress_1_credit_JimMcCrary_20120327_165932-760x505.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.384335154827" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CaroleKing_cr_Jason-LaVeris_2012.jpg" data-image-caption="2012: Carole King is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California. (Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic)" data-image-copyright="Carole King Honored With Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CaroleKing_cr_Jason-LaVeris_2012-275x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/CaroleKing_cr_Jason-LaVeris_2012-549x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.75" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carole-King.jpg" data-image-caption="1970: Carole King (Jim McCrary)" data-image-copyright="Carole26" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carole-King-380x285.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carole-King-760x570.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.0106382978723" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carole-163.jpg" data-image-caption="April 22, 1971: Carole concentrates on working out a song in A&M photo studio during Cashbox trade magazine cover session. (Jim McCrary)" data-image-copyright="Carole16" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carole-163-376x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Carole-163-752x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.2666666666667" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/c5dd3e355d59ce7cfe4260c4b0762fc1.jpg" data-image-caption="1971: While Carole King was recording "Tapestry," James Taylor recorded King’s “You’ve Got a Friend,” taking the song all the way to No. 1. "You've Got a Friend" won Grammy Awards both for Taylor (Best Male Pop Vocal Performance) and King (Song of the Year)." data-image-copyright="c5dd3e355d59ce7cfe4260c4b0762fc1" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/c5dd3e355d59ce7cfe4260c4b0762fc1-300x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/c5dd3e355d59ce7cfe4260c4b0762fc1-600x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4990138067061" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Beautiful-The-Carole-King-Musical.jpg" data-image-caption="2015: Jessie Mueller, performing in "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical." The musical earned a Tony Award for Mueller, and the Broadway cast recording of "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" won the Grammy Award for musical theater album." data-image-copyright="beautiful-the-carole-king-musical" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Beautiful-The-Carole-King-Musical-253x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Beautiful-The-Carole-King-Musical-507x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/AM-Carole-King_0203r2_Michael-Carole.jpg" data-image-caption="2015: Carole King and Michael Kantor, executive producer for American Masters. American Masters is premiering a new documentary, "Carole King: Natural Woman," on PBS in honor of the 45th anniversary of her landmark album, "Tapestry."" data-image-copyright="am-carole-king_0203r2_michael-carole" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/AM-Carole-King_0203r2_Michael-Carole-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/AM-Carole-King_0203r2_Michael-Carole-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.3286713286713" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/530455254-Taylor-Honored-At-64th-Annual-BMI-Pop-Awards.jpg" data-image-caption="2016: Songwriter Carole King and honoree Taylor Swift attend the 64th Annual BMI Pop Awards, honoring Taylor Swift and songwriting duo Mann & Weil, at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. (Lester Cohen/Getty Images for BMI)" data-image-copyright=""Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) Honors Taylor Swift And Songwriting Duo Mann & Weil At The 64th Annual BMI Pop Awards"" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/530455254-Taylor-Honored-At-64th-Annual-BMI-Pop-Awards-286x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/530455254-Taylor-Honored-At-64th-Annual-BMI-Pop-Awards-572x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.67105263157895" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/465330023-2014-Grammys.jpg" data-image-caption="2014: Musicians Carole King and Sara Bareilles speak onstage during the 56th Grammy Awards at Staples Center in Los Angeles. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="56th GRAMMY Awards - Show" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/465330023-2014-Grammys-380x255.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/465330023-2014-Grammys-760x510.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.5049504950495" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2015-Carole-King-Approved-Pic-From-March-15-Shoot.jpg" data-image-caption="2015: Carole King" data-image-copyright="2015-carole-king-approved-pic-from-march-15-shoot" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2015-Carole-King-Approved-Pic-From-March-15-Shoot-253x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2015-Carole-King-Approved-Pic-From-March-15-Shoot-505x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.3523131672598" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/1035x1400-85336848.jpg" data-image-caption="Carole King at home in Laurel Canyon." data-image-copyright="1035x1400-85336848" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/1035x1400-85336848-281x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/1035x1400-85336848-562x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.64266666666667" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17yearold-Carole-King-4.jpg" data-image-caption="Carole King at a recording session at RCA Studio B in New York City, when she was just 17. At that age, she married Gerry Goffin in a Jewish ceremony on Long Island in August 1959, after King had become pregnant with her first daughter, Louise. They left college and took daytime jobs, Goffin working as an assistant chemist and King as a secretary, while writing songs together in the evening at an office belonging to Don Kirshner’s Aldon Music at 1650 Broadway, opposite the Brill Building." data-image-copyright="17yearold-carole-king-4" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17yearold-Carole-King-4-380x244.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17yearold-Carole-King-4.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.5384615384615" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17-year-old-Carole-King-3.jpg" data-image-caption="Carole King at a recording session at RCA Studio B in New York City, when she was just 17. At that age, she married Gerry Goffin in a Jewish ceremony on Long Island in August 1959, after King had become pregnant with her first daughter, Louise. They left college and took daytime jobs, Goffin working as an assistant chemist and King as a secretary, while writing songs together in the evening at an office belonging to Don Kirshner’s Aldon Music at 1650 Broadway, opposite the Brill Building." data-image-copyright="17-year-old-carole-king-3" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17-year-old-Carole-King-3-247x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17-year-old-Carole-King-3-494x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.5261044176707" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17-year-old-Carole-King-2.jpg" data-image-caption="Carole King at a recording session at RCA Studio B in New York City, when she was just 17. At that age, she married Gerry Goffin in a Jewish ceremony on Long Island in August 1959, after King had become pregnant with her first daughter, Louise. They left college and took daytime jobs, Goffin working as an assistant chemist and King as a secretary, while writing songs together in the evening at an office belonging to Don Kirshner’s Aldon Music at 1650 Broadway, opposite the Brill Building." data-image-copyright="17-year-old-carole-king-2" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17-year-old-Carole-King-2-249x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/17-year-old-Carole-King-2-498x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="0.66710526315789" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/8fe1d435-20ae-402f-8abe-27bb2101dc5d.jpg" data-image-caption="2010: Carole King" data-image-copyright="2010: Carole King" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/8fe1d435-20ae-402f-8abe-27bb2101dc5d-380x253.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/8fe1d435-20ae-402f-8abe-27bb2101dc5d-760x507.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.1674347158218" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/7fa32dd1bef99e623adcbfebc839acbc.jpg" data-image-caption="Circa 1970: Singer and songwriter Carole King poses for publicity photo. (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)" data-image-copyright="Singer And Songwriter Carole King" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/7fa32dd1bef99e623adcbfebc839acbc-326x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/7fa32dd1bef99e623adcbfebc839acbc-651x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.003963011889" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/3c0c568b1222b14de278505bebd19bdf.jpg" data-image-caption="1978: Carole King (Jim McGuire)" data-image-copyright="1978: Carole King (Jim McGuire)" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/3c0c568b1222b14de278505bebd19bdf-378x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/3c0c568b1222b14de278505bebd19bdf-757x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1.4990138067061" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/¬ElissaKline-CK_Idaho_NF_March_-030714_092t.jpg" data-image-caption="2014: Carole King at her ranch in Idaho. Set within the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, the 128-acre Robinson Bar Ranch has belonged to King for more than three decades. (Elissa Kline)" data-image-copyright="%c2%acelissakline-ck_idaho_nf_march_-030714_092t" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/¬ElissaKline-CK_Idaho_NF_March_-030714_092t-253x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/¬ElissaKline-CK_Idaho_NF_March_-030714_092t-507x760.jpg"></div>  </figure> <figure class="isotope-item ratio-container--gallery photo" data-category="photo" data-ratio="1" title="" data-gtm-category="photo" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Achiever - ">   <div class="lazyload ratio-container__image" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#imageModal" data-image-src="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/images_uploads_album_CK_Legendary_Demos_Cover_20120307_131927.jpg" data-image-caption=""The Legendary Demos" is a compilation album by pop rock artist Carole King. It was released on April 24, 2012 on Hear Music." data-image-copyright="_images_uploads_album_ck_legendary_demos_cover_20120307_131927" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/images_uploads_album_CK_Legendary_Demos_Cover_20120307_131927-380x380.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/11/images_uploads_album_CK_Legendary_Demos_Cover_20120307_131927-760x760.jpg"></div>  </figure>    </div> </section> </div> </div> <div class="container"> <footer class="editorial-article__footer col-md-8 col-md-offset-4"> <div class="editorial-article__next-link sans-3"> <a href="#"><strong>What's next:</strong> <span class="editorial-article__next-link-title">profile</span></a> </div> <ul class="social list-unstyled list-inline ssk-group m-b-0"> <li class="list-inline-item"><a href="" class="ssk ssk-facebook" data-gtm-category="social" data-gtm-action="click" data-gtm-label="Shared Achiever on Facebook"><i class="icon-icon_facebook-circle"></i></a></li> <li 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class="centered-blocks"> <div class="isotope-achiever the-arts the-arts shy-introverted write-music ambitious " data-year-inducted="2005" data-achiever-name="Sondheim"> <div class="achiever-block view-grid"> <a href="/web/20170621213002/http://www.achievement.org/achiever/stephen-sondheim/"> <figure class="ratio-container ratio-container--square bg-black"> <div class="lazyload box achiever-block__image" data-sizes="auto" data-bgset="/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/sondheim-001a-190x190.jpg [(max-width:576px)] | /wp-content/uploads/2016/09/sondheim-001a-380x380.jpg"></div> <div class="achiever-block__overlay"></div> <figcaption class="text-xs-center achiever-block__text"> <div class="display--table"> <div class="display--table-cell"> <div class="achiever-block__text--center"> <div class="achiever-block__name text-brand-primary">Stephen Sondheim</div> <div class="achiever-block__known-as text-white sans-6">Composer and Lyricist</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="text-white 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