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How Carole King Became Queen...

Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 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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