How Carole King Became Queen...
Tony Stewart, NME, 23 October 1971
IN MANY ways, and for many reasons, it took Carole King a long time to record her first album, Writer, in 1970. As a writer she had started way back during the fifties her first single was 'Oh, Neil', answering Neil Sedaka's 'Oh, Carol'. And now she is acclaimed as one of the world's best, something I will go along with.
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