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Girls Like us : : Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--And the Journey of a Generation

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Part one. "We can only look behind from where we came": Overture : three women, three moments, one journey. -- Part two. "I'm home again, in my old narrow bed": Chapter one. Carole -- Chapter two. Joni -- Chapter three. Carly. -- Part three. "And the sun poured in like butterscotch": Chapter four. Carole : 1961-1964 -- Chapter five. Joni : 1961-early 1965 -- Chapter six. Carly : 1961-late 1965 -- Chapter seven. Carole : 1964-early 1969 -- Chapter eight. Joni : March 1965-December 1967 -- Chapter nine. Carly : 1965-1969. -- Part four. "I feel the earth move under my feet": Chapter ten. Joni : late 1967-mid-1970 -- Chapter eleven. Carole : 1969-1970 ; Joni : 1970 ; Carole and Joni : early 1971-1972 -- Chapter twelve. Carly : mid-1970-early 1973. -- Part five. "We just come from such different sets of circumstance": Chapter thirteen. Carole : 1972-1984 -- Chapter fourteen. Joni : 1972-1982 -- Chapter fifteen. Carly : late 1973-late 1987. -- Part six. "In the river I know I will find the key": Coda : The middle '80s to the present : three women, three endings, one journey. -- Source notes -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Discography -- Index.
"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.

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More Magazine submitted by kbcmmom on July 26, 2011, 8:00pm Found this book through an article in More magazine. A fascinating read on women in the music industry. Definitely worth a second read.

High hopes submitted by andreahubert on July 24, 2012, 11:27am I really had high hopes for this book. Sadly, I was disappointed.

Epic singers. I miss Joni. submitted by tbbrown76 on July 18, 2014, 1:33pm Its okay.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Atria Books, [2008]
Year Published: 2008
Description: vi, 584 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0743491475
9780743491471

SUBJECTS
King, Carole, -- 1942-
Mitchell, Joni.
Simon, Carly.
Singers -- Biography.
Rock musicians -- Biography.
Women rock musicians -- Biography.
Biographies.