Siblings Richard and Karen Carpenters won three Grammy Awards and had their own TV show. Photo: Handout
More than 50 years after We've Only Just Begun and Yesterday Once More, Richard Carpenter is looking back on the California soft pop duo with his sister Karen that ruled the charts but got a rough ride from music critics.
Now he is telling the story his way for the first time in Carpenters: The Musical Legacy, a book based on hundreds of hours of interviews Richard gave to authors Mike Cidoni Lennox and Chris May. Crammed with photos, posters, programmes, reviews and work schedules, it is intended as the definitive story of the 1970s recording stars.
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