Bibliograph

Girls like us, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon-- and the journey of a generation, Sheila Weller

Type

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Girls like us, Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon-- and the journey of a generation, Sheila Weller

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-559), discography (pages 561-564), and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

platesillustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Girls like us

Nature of contents

bibliographydiscographies

Oclc number

232979363

Responsibility statement

Sheila Weller

Sub title

Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon-- and the journey of a generation

Summary

A portrait of three of the twentieth century's most important musical artists offers a female perspective on coming of age during the 1960s as viewed through the lives and careers of Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon

Table Of Contents

"We can only look behind from where we came." Overture : Three women, three moments, one journey -- "I'm home again, in my old narrow bed." Carole ; Joni ; Carly --"And the sun poured in like butterscotch." Carole: 1961-1964 ; Joni: 1961-early 1965 ; Carly: 1961-late 1965 ; Carole: 1964-early 1969 ; Joni: March 1965-December 1967 ; Carly: 1965-1969 --"I feel the earth move under my feet." Joni: late 1967-mid-1970 ; Carole: 1969-1970 / Joni: 1970 / Carole and Joni: early 1971-1972 ; Carly: mid-1970-early 1973 --"We just come from such different sets of circumstance." Carole: 1972-1984 ; Joni: 1972-1984 ; Joni: 1972-1982 ; Carly: late 1973-late 1987 -- "In the river I know I will find the key." Coda : The middle '80s to the present : three women, three endings, one journey

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