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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weller, Sheila.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

King, Carole, 1942-.

King, Carole.

Mitchell, Joni.

Simon, Carly.

Singers--Biography.

Singers.

Rock musicians--Biography.

Rock musicians.

Women rock musicians--Biography.

Women rock musicians.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vi, 584 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Atria Books, [2008]

Summary:

"Girls Like Us" is a groundbreaking and irresistible biography of three of America's most important musical artists--Carly Simon, Carole King, and Joni Mitchell--and offers an epic treatment of these mid-century women who dared to break tradition.

Contents:

"We can only look behind from where we came"

"I'm home again, in my old narrow bed"

"And the sun poured in like butterscotch"

"I feel the earth move under my feet"

"We just come from such different sets of circumstance"

"In the river I know I will find the key".

Notes:

Includes discography: pages 561-564.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-559) and index.

ISBN:

0743491475

9780743491471

OCLC:

166373130

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