ARTICLES: Maynard, “Visiting Ann Beattie…,” NYT, 1980. Miles, “The Ultimate…,” Rocksbackpages.com. Braudy, “James Taylor,” NYT, 1971. Crouse, “‘Blue,’” RS, 1971. Crouse, “‘Carole King Music,’” RS, 1972. Ward, “Carole King,” WP, 1976. Landau, “‘Tapestry,’” RS, 1971. Hilburn, “Times Woman of the Year,” LAT, 1971. “What’s Playing in…,” O, The Oprah Magazine, 2006. Hilburn, “Music Review,” LAT, 1971. Heckman, “Joni Mitchell…,” NYT, 1971. Daum, “My Dinner…,” LAT, 2006. Heckman, “From Songwriter…,” NYT, 1971. Hilburn, “Carole King Sweeps…,” LAT, 1972. Garbarini, “Joni Mitchell Is…,” Musician, 1983. Miller, “In Search of Love…,” Being There, 2004. Flanagan, “Joni Mitchell Has…,” Musician, 1985.
OTHER: CD of Carole King at Carnegie Hall, June 1971. Personal e-mails from early feminists: Steinem, Ceballos, et al.
CHAPTER TWELVE
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Carly Simon, Jake Brackman, Ellen Questel, Kris Kristofferson, Jac Holzman, Arlyne Rothberg, Jessica Hoffmann Davis, Steve Harris, Russ Kunkel, Danny Kortchmar, Abigail Haness Marshall, Leah Kunkel, Betsy Asher, Richard Corey, Tamara Weiss, Richard Perry, and (re marriage statistics) Stephanie Coontz.
BOOKS: Holzman and Daws, Follow the Music. Braudy, Between Marriage and Divorce. Coontz, Marriage, a History. O’Reilly, The Girl I Left Behind. Dormen, The Best Place to Be. Yetnikoff with Ritz, Howling at the Moon. Finstad, Warren Beatty: A Private Man.
ARTICLES: Jahn, “Carly Simon Sings…,” NYT, 1971. “Carly Simon Concert Is Off,” WP, 1971. Holden, “‘Playing Possum,’” RS, 1975. Hilburn, “Carly Simon Has…” and “Cat Stevens and…,” LAT, 1971. Davis, “‘Anticipation’” RS, 1971. Heckman, “Carly Simon Sings…,” NYT, 1971. Crouse, “‘Carly Simon,’” RS, 1971. White, “James Taylor,” RS, 1981. Werbin, “James Taylor & Carly Simon,” RS, 1973. Fong-Torres, “Carly,” RS, 1975. Hemphill, “Kris Kristofferson…,” NYT, 1970. Leavitt, “She,” Esquire.
OTHER: Karen Durbin’s posting on The Nation Web site after Ellen Willis’s 2006 death. Author’s experience as part of the Ms. family in the early 1970s. Robert Christgau, via Internet, 1981. Ellen Willis’s New Yorker review, quoted by Christgau via Internet.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Danny Kortchmar, Stephanie Magrino Fischbach, John Fischbach, Charlie Larkey, Camille Cacciatore Savitz, Roy Reynolds, Joy James, Randy Stone, Mike Stanger, Bruce Stanger, “Cassie,” Cynthia Weil, Brooks Arthur.
ARTICLES: Lichtenstein, “Carole King Draws 70,000…” NYT, 1971. Zito, “King’s Soggy Do” and “The Silent Side…,” WP, 1973. Crowe, “A Child’s Garden…,” RS, 1974. Hilburn, “Another Winner…,” LAT, 1971; “The Return of Carole King,” LAT, 1973; and “King’s ‘Tapestry’ Wearing Thin,” LAT, 1977. Alterman, “A Bland Carole King,” NYT, 1973. Van Matre, “Carole’s a Nervous…,” CT, 1973. “Q & A with David Palmer,” accessed through Internet. Rockwell, “A Sweet New Record…,” NYT, 1975, and “Friends of Carole King…,” NYT, 1976. “Carole King Signs…,” LAT, 1976. Daley, “Carole King,” WP, 1978. Emerson, “Pop: Carole King…,” NYT, 1978. “Richard Evers,” Post Register, 1978. Singular, “Trouble in Paradise,” Denver Post Empire Magazine, 1984. “Just Married,” IS, 1982. Strauss, “Carole King,” IS, 1984. Holden, “‘Fantasy,’” RS, 1973, and “‘Thoroughbred,’” RS, 1976. Woodward, “The Earth Moved,” IS, 1995.
OTHER: Copy of Rick Evers’s prison record e-mailed by Idaho Department of Corrections. Liner notes written by Carole King for Welcome Home album.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Larry Klein, Salli Sachse, Danny Kortchmar, Roy Blumenfeld, Russ Kunkel, Billy James, various friends of Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne, the late John Guerin, the late Don Alias, Wayne Perkins, and Ronee Blakley.
ARTICLES AND TRANSCRIPTS: Crowe, “A Child’s Garden…,” RS, 1994. Ruhlman, “From Blue…,” Goldmine, 1995. “Jackson Browne,” Detroit News, 1972. Davis, “Joni Mitchell’s ‘For the Roses’” RS, 1973. “Biography,” Joni Mitchell.com. Robert Christgau, on Internet. Hoskyns, “Joni Mitchell,” Blender, 2003. Van Matre, “A ‘Spark’…,” CT, 1974. Landau, “A Delicate Balance,” RS, 1974. Echols, “Thirty Years…,” Los Angeles Weekly, 1994. Kot, “Joni’s Jazzed,” CT, 1998. Strickland, “Joni Dances…,” Calgary Herald, 2007. Hansen, “Music Icon Joni…,” NPR, 1995. Maslin, “Joni Mitchell’s Reckless and Shapeless…,” RS, 1978. Swartley, “The Babe in Bopperland…,” RS, 1979. Holden, “A Summer Garden…,” RS, 1976; “High Spirits…,” NYT, 1982; and “Joni Mitchell Finds Peace…,” NYT, 1991.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Carly Simon, Jake Brackman, Ellen Questel, Arlyne Rothberg, Peter Asher, Betsy Asher, Mia Farrow, Jessica Hoffmann Davis, Tamara Weiss, the late Danny Armstrong, Russ Kunkel, Leah Kunkel, Marc Cohn, Don Was, Joe Armstrong, Jim Hart, and Dr. Terry Horton, medical director of Phoenix House.
BOOKS: Andersen, Sweet Caroline. White, Long Ago and Far Away. Hart, Milding.
ARTICLES: Alterman, “Carly’s Happy…,” NYT, 1974. Cohen, “‘Spy,’” RS, 1979. Considine, “‘Spoiled Girl,’” RS, 1985. Hoerburger, “‘Coming Around Again,’” RS, 1987. Hilburn, “Carly Simon Will…,” LAT, 1980. Holden, “The Pop Life: A Spicy…,” NYT, 1985, and “Carly Simon’s Emotion-Laden…,” NYT, 1987. Hunt, “What’s a Wife…,” LAT, 1977. Landau, “‘Hotcakes,’” RS, 1974. Christgau, “Carly Simon Is Not…,” VV, 1976. Mark, “Carly Simon,” VV, 1977. Rockwell, “Carly Simon: The Fans…,” NYT, 1977; “Pop Comeback,” 1977; and “Carly Simon at the Bottom Line,” NYT, 1978. Shapiro, “I Bet You Think…,” VV, 1977. Shewey, “‘Hello Big Man,’” RS, 1983. Van Matre, “Carly’s Still Anticipating,” CT, 1972; “A ‘Spark’…,” CT, 1974; “Bold Plans for…,” CT, 1980; and “Carly Simon Carrying…,” CT, 1982. Wadler, “Carly Simon: Anxiety…,” WP, 1983. Werbin, “James Taylor…,” RS, 1973. White, “Carly,” RS, 1981, and “James Taylor,” RS, 1981. Young, “Carly Simon’s Land…,” RS, 1978. Simon, “How Lyrics Work,” DoubleTake, 2006.
OTHER: Web site of the Graymoor Friars.
CODA: THREE WOMEN, THREE ENDINGS, ONE JOURNEY
reuniting
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Larry Klein, Duke Redbird, Annie Mandlsohn, Tim Campbell, Dave Naylor, friend of Gibb family, the late John Guerin, the late Don Alias.
ARTICLES: Bannister and Lai, “Songbird Joni Searches…,” Globe, 1994. “Heartsick Joni Mitchell…” and Gould, “Joni Mitchell’s Life and Death…,” Globe, 1996. White, “Joni Mitchell’s Many Shades…,” Billboard, 1995. Fulton, “Alberta Native…,” Calgary Sun, 1996. Arnold, “The Reunion…,” National Post, 2001. Holden, “Joni Mitchell Finds Peace…,” NYT, 1991, and “Too feminine…?” NYT, 1996.
coming home
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with anonymous party in King/Sorensen–Custer County locked-gate dispute, Roy Reynolds, Rocky Barker, Joy James, Mike Stoller, Michael Garrity (executive director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies), Cynthia Weil.
ARTICLES: Abe, “Carole King to Star…” and “Carole King’s Attorney…,” IS, 1985. Barker, “Singer Uses Fame…,” Post Register, 1990, and “Carole King Lobbies…,” Times-News, 1991. Bradley, “Carole King Emerges…,” Gannett News Service, 1994. “Carole King Wins…,” IS, 1986. Champlin, “Singer Carole King Opts…,” LAT, 1984. Ellsworth, “Carole King Blazes…,” IS, 1989. Hernandez, “Road on King’s Land…,” IS, 1985. “Career and Causes…,” Idaho Press-Tribune, 1984. Peterson, “Ruling Put Off…,” IS, 1986. Pratter, “Carole King,” Times-News, 1988. Singular, “Trouble in Paradise,” Denver Post Empire Magazine, 1984. Strauss, “Carole King,” IS, 1984. “The Singer and…,” Wall Street Journal, 1984. “Trial Date Reset…,” IS, 1986. Stuebner, “Jones Calls Road…,” IS, 1988, and “Singer Carole King Wins…,” High Country News, 1988. Hoerburger, “‘City Streets,’” RS, 1989. Manning, “‘Colour of Your Dreams,’” RS, 1993.
surviving
AUTHOR INTERVIEWS with Carly Simon, Jim Hart, Jeanie Sel
igmann, Jake Brackman, Marc Cohen, Don Was, Ellen Questel, Jessica Hoffmann Davis, Joe Armstrong, Trish Kubal.
BOOKS: Hart, Milding. Davidson, Leap!
ARTICLES AND POSTINGS: Brenner, “I Never Sang…,” Vanity Fair, 1995. “Timeline,” CarlySimon.com. Howe, “Working Girl…,” WP, 1988. Holden, “The Pop Life: Carly Simon, Again,” NYT, 1989; “Pop Music’s Romance…,” “Carly Simon: Have You…,” “The Pop Life: A New Album…,” and “The Pop Life: Carly Simon Looks…,” NYT, 1990. Carly Simon interview with Paula Zahn, CNN.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I felt my own longing mirrored by the Shirelles singing “Will You Love Me Tomorrow.” I moved from California to New York for life because of “Up on the Roof.” I became a young woman in that city—living just like Joni in “Chelsea Morning”; feeling just like Joni in “Both Sides, Now”—as Aretha belted “Natural Woman.” In 1969 my sister, Liz—in her long hair, long skirt, shawl, and guitar, bound for a cottage in Laurel Canyon—told me about someone who expressed life for her. “And she calls him Willy,” she said, of Joni and Graham. In early 1973, I sat in my still-tie-dyed-curtained walk-up and devoured every word of the Rolling Stone interview of Carly Simon-Taylor, and I knew that this peer, who I might have bumped into at Bendel’s or Zum Zum or the Ms. party, was the first feminist rock star and that we were taking the ride together.
When I conceived this book, in 2003, I went to the representatives of Carole, Joni, and Carly, and asked not to interview them, but to be able to talk to their closest friends. I set my limits first of all out of realism and also because I didn’t want my shaky author’s objectivity (I was starting out admiring) to be undermined by access to my subjects. Besides, I had written a number of books in the chorus-of-voices style, where friends tell the story of a person and a world, and that form had worked well. One day, Carly Simon appeared on my voice mail and, later, in my e-mail in-box, and over the many months of this project, I took judicious use of her generous candor, which was always offered without strings. “I’m not expecting deference. I’m expecting to have my feelings hurt,” she wrote me, early on—one of the many reasons to like her. Joni sent word that she did not want to be grouped in a book with two others, but my access to her friends proved undiminished. Carole, through her representatives, had been the first to approve this project, but later told people not to speak to me. By then, people wanted to speak—it was their journey, too. Last summer I made a concerted effort to interview Joni but was turned down (she was busy recording Shine, among other things). I didn’t try with Carole because I knew she was trying to write her own autobiography and was unhappily aware of this book. I sincerely hope that all three women will feel, despite whatever misgivings, that I have captured them and honored the significance of their body of work. At the risk of sounding gratuitous, I thank them from the bottom of my heart for their unsurpassable music, and for the soundtrack it provided for my youth.
Special thanks to Tisha Fein, childhood friend and peerless Grammy producer, for her initial guidance in the world of the music business; to Bobbi Andelson, for that outstanding, heartful research—six fat scrapbooks of clips; to Laurie Sarney and Jennifer Jue-Steuck for similar research brilliance. My agent, Ellen Levine, never stopped believing in this project; my publisher, Judith Curr, waited for it through several missed deadlines; and my editor, Malaika Adero, not just graciously but enthusiastically accepted a manuscript that was over double the contracted length. Elisa Petrini was a valuable sounding board; Sybil Pincus, an expert shepherd of the manuscript. Patricia Romanowski, Robert Legault, Tina Peckham, and Annette Corkey went above and beyond the call of duty in beating into submission all those errors that originally pocked this manuscript, despite what I thought was my own rigorous fact checking. Thank you to indexer Nancy Wolff. The musically way-cool Ben Umanov created the discography.
My husband, John Kelly, while immersed in detailing the agonies of the Black Death and the Irish famine for his own publisher, lived with me during all my verbosely expressed worries and obsessions, and he said the magic words: “You’re writing social history.” Ever-so-talented rising young writer and editor (and accidental über–“in” restaurant booker extraordinaire) Jonathan Kelly made me proudly known as “Jon’s mom” by his family at Vanity Fair. Glamour editor in chief Cindi Leive gave me six months off to break the back of this book; it was working with Cindi, and the other terrific women at Glamour, that sharpened my desire to tell the story of this other generation. My sister, Liz Weller, my friends Eileen Stukane and Carol Ardman—and you, Mrs. Katz. We all lived these years—oh (Mrs. Katz…), did we ever.
Thank you to the people who patiently spoke to me:
Lou Adler, the late Don Alias, Eric Andersen, the late Danny Armstrong, Joe Armstrong, the late Al Aronowitz, Brooks Arthur, Marilyn Arthur, Betsy Asher, Peter Asher, Sandra Stewart Backus, Russell Banks, Rocky Barker, Joel Bernstein, Estrella Berosini Cory Bishop (formerly Elyse Weinberg), Ronee Blakley, Roy Blumenfeld (special thanks), Henry Bonli, Jane Bonli Boone, Doug Bovee, Joe Boyd, Jake Brackman (special thanks), Susan Braudy, Kerri Brusca, Joe Butler, Leslie Butler.
Tim Campbell, Nancy Carlin, D’Arcy Case, Joan Smith Chapman, Marc Cohn, Richard Corey, Jessica Hoffman Davis, Beverly DeJong, Nick Delbanco, Rick DePofi, Henry Diltz, Walt Drohan, Cliff Fagin, Mia Farrow, Joy Schreiber Fibben, John Fischbach, Stephanie Magrino Fischbach (great thanks, and affection), Richard Flohill, Mel Futorian, Barbara Behling Goffin, Gerry Goffin, Jesse Goffin, Debbie Green, the late John Guerin.
Steve Harris, Lanny Harrison, Jim Hart, Mac Holbert, Colin Holliday-Scott, Jeanine Hollingshead, Jac Holzman, Billy James, Joy James, Michael Jared, Sandra Jarvies, Nicholas Jennings, Marie Brewster Jensen, Leilani Jones (special thanks), Barbara Grossman Karyo, Al Kasha, Steve Katz, the late Jack Keller, Donny Kirshner, the late Estelle Klein, Larry Klein, Kris Kristofferson, Al Kooper, Danny Kortchmar, Trish Kubal, Leah Kunkel, Russ Kunkel, Armand Kunz, Charlie Larkey, Beverly Lee, Ed Lee, Mike Mainieri, Anne Mandlsohn, Barry Mann, Abigail Haness Marshall, Jim McCrary, Roger McGuinn, John McHugh, Frank McKitrick, George Mihalcheon, Chuck Mitchell, Patti Mitsui, Jenny Muldaur, Graham Nash, Dave Naylor.
Martin Ornot, Miranda Parry, Alan Pepper, Wayne Perkins, Jim Perrone, Richard Perry, Michelle Phillips, Shawn Phillips, Ellen Questel, Cary Raditz, Jeanie McCrea Reavis, Duke Redbird, Roy Reynolds, Trina Robbins, Leslie Korn Rogowsky, Chick Roberts, Mort Rosengarten, Arlyne Rothberg, Tom Rush, Salli Sachse, Camille Cacciatore Savitz (great appreciation), Ralph Schuckett, Michael Schwartz, John Sebastian, Jeanie Seligmann, Gene Shay, Betsy Siggins, Lucy Simon, Peter Simon, Dawn Reavis Smith, Connie O’Brien Sopic, Bruce Stanger, Mike Stanger, Bruce Sterling, Toni Stern, Mike Stoller, Randy Stone, Bob Sugarman, Deborah Symonds.
Russ Titelman, Ezra Titus, Matt Umanov, Don Was, Cynthia Weil, Tamara Weiss, Jerry Wexler, Helen Whitney, Eric Whittred, Madeleine Wild, Ben Yarmolinsky, Myron Yules, Larry Yurman, Elsa Bonli Ziegler, Joel Zwick. And a few who wish to remain anonymous.
We wove the tapestry together; this song is about you; and if you want me, I’ll be in the bar.
—New York City, January 2008
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ARTICLES
Among the many articles and transcriptions of TV and radio broadcasts perused and utilized for this book are these, divided by the woman to whose sections of the book they pertain:
carole king
Aarons, Leroy F. “McGovern Begins Buildup for Campaign in California.” The Washington Post and Times-Herald, April 8, 1972.
———. “Singing and Ushering for McGovern.” The Washington Post and Times-Herald, April 17, 1972.
Abe, Debby. “Carole King’s Attorney Seeks Release of Documents.” The Idaho Statesman, January 5, 1985.
———. “Carole King to Star in Film; Suit Goes On.” The Idaho Statesman, March 1, 1985.
Alterman, Loraine. “A Bland Carole King.” The New York Times, July 15, 1973.
Barker, Rocky. “Carole King Lobbies for Wildern
ess.” Times-News (Twin Falls, Idaho), November 18, 1991.
———. “Singer Uses Fame to Tout Wilderness: Carole King Makes Case for Her Outspokenness.” Post Register (Idaho Falls), November 5, 1990.
Bradley, Carole. “Carole King Emerges as a Strong Voice for Wilderness.” Gannett News Service, May 3, 1994.
“Career and Causes: Carole King’s Privacy Issue Becomes Public Brawl.” Idaho Press-Tribune (Nampa), June 3, 1984.
CaroleKing.com.
“Carole King Signs with Capitol.” Los Angeles Times, December 8, 1976.
“Carole King Tops Grammy Winners.” Los Angeles Times, March 16, 1972.
“Carole King Wins Round in Suit over Road.” The Idaho Statesman, June 25, 1986.
“Carole King Wins Top 3 Grammy Awards.” Chicago Tribune, March 15, 1972.
Champlin, Charles. “Singer Carole King Opts for Joy in the Country.” Los Angeles Times, January 1, 1984.
Crouse, Timothy. “‘Carole King Music’ [review]” Rolling Stone, January 20, 1972.
Daley, Steve. “Carole King.” The Washington Post, November 21, 1978.
Dove, Ian. “Music: Carole King’s Casual Journey.” The New York Times, May 27, 1973.
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