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Close To You: The Story of The Carpenters (2002 BBC Doc Pt2)

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Uploaded by on Jan 13, 2007

Go here for Pt 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOCk-D2fOpg

Great documentary that aired in 2002 from BBC. LOTS of rare footage, including Karen walking down the aisle at her wedding!
Interviews from Dionne Warwick, Petula Clark, Kim Gordon, Tony Peluso, Paul Williams, Frank Pooler, Herb Alpert, John Bettis, Mark Radcliffe, Badly Drawn Boy, Joe Osborne, Gary Sims.

To watch part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJSKvdc7HpE

Visit http://www.GoCarpenters.com to help induct the Carpenters into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!

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  • wow pure genius.....if councelling and support was there, Karen might be able to seek and obtain the help she needed.

    A talent that will be missed.

  • Karen was simply divine.

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  • I remember the "Touch me when we are dancing" hit I was only 2 at the time

  • Amazing to hear Petula Clark, a legend in herself, put Karen even above her own amazing talent.

  • Long ago and so far away we were touched by and lost a sweet angel.

  • Karen she has a precious natural voice that anyone could easily fallen in love listening to it! RIP Karen....

  • The great voice, and the emotion in her voice that pulls you in, makes you remember that first love of your life... Karen could, and still can do that for me!!

  • 1983, we lost a true angel ,I had such a asd year mash went off the air and my uncle also , . I miss karen and my uncle and now my dad who I lost in 2010 who gave me the love of carpenters in 1970's ,I am sold glad her music is still alive ./

  • Thee best female vocalist of all time. Nobody comes close.

  • The REAL meaning of Pink Floyd's THE WALL is about the unseen wall everyone projects to those around them, that is much the same Karen had, and people couldn't see the risk she was entering into, and people I see commenting love to cast blame, but these tragedies happened to more then a few noted artists, and the people around them didn't pull a proper intervention, a LIFE Saving one that could have been

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