| Description |
vi, 584 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-559), and discography (pages 561-564), and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. "We can only look behind from where we came" -- Overture : Three women, three moments, one journey -- pt. 2. "I'm home again, in my old narrow bed" -- ch. 1. Carole -- ch. 2. Joni -- ch. 3. Carly -- pt. 3. "And the sun poured in like butterscotch" -- ch. 4. Carole : 1961-1964 -- ch. 5. Joni : 1961-early 1965 -- ch. 6. Carly : 1961-late 1965 -- ch. 7. Carole : 1964-early 1969 -- ch. 8. Joni : March 1965-December 1967 -- ch. 9. Carly : 1965-1969 -- pt. 4. "I feel the earth move under my feet" -- ch. 10. Joni : late 1967-mid-1970 -- ch. 11. Carole : 1969-1970 / Joni : 1970 / Carole and Joni : early 1971-1972 -- ch. 12. Carly : mid-1970-early 1973 -- pt. 5. "We just come from such different sets of circumstance" -- ch. 13. Carole : 1972-1984 -- ch. 14. Joni : 1972-1984 -- ch. 14. Joni : 1972-1982 -- ch. 15. Carly : late 1973-late 1987 -- pt. 6. "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. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
King, Carole, 1942-
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Mitchell, Joni.
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Simon, Carly.
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Singers -- Biography.
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Rock musicians -- Biography.
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Women rock musicians -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0743491475 |
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9780743491471 |
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0743491483 |
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9780743491488 |
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