AE Biography - The Carpenters: Harmony and Heartbreak (Pt 2)

This episode of A&E Channel's 'Biography' series aired in 1998.

To part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5xzKwUMwww

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• Karen
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• KD
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• 70's
• music
• anorexia

[ohytr55]

As long as we have her music she is never really gone

[jeffw1267]

Yeah, she was a hottie back in the day. But she still thought of herself as an overweight child.

[jposh707]

Why the hell are people worried about whether or not the author of a Karen Carpenter biography is gay?! Seriously??? You people that are worried about that make me sick! It's called "live and let live" and "mind your own damn business." I'm pretty sure that's what Karen would want. Lord knows that judgmental people made her life a living Hell.

[taypar11]

Barbara Striesand said that Karen Carpenter was one of the greatest singers of all time. That says it all.

[laminage]

I remember when I saw her on Olivia Newton-John's Third TV Special in 1980 where she and Olivia, Tina Turner, Toni Tennille, and Peaches from the Disco Group Peaches and Herb did their version of Heartache Tonight and I remember thinking she so thin, and sadly enough Olivia's Daughter Chloe had the same problem.

[vmuto1]

Mike, I don't know if Randy Schmidt is gay, shouldn't matter anyway he still left so much out of that book of his Little Girl Blue, thanks for your comment. I just hope that the world understands that the book was indeed done with NO RESPECT for the Carpenter name. Seems like the people who wouldn't talk to Randy never have a hard time speaking to me, Only difference is I respect the Carpenter name & always will. Eye's ain'ts a talking!!!!

[MeBHoneyBee]

She was just as beautiful on the inside as she was on the outside. I loved listening to her music back when and still love listening to it now.

[jezkn]

Brilliant insights into the arrangement of Close to You. Seldom get this detail on a documentory. Fascinating! Great to see Karen so happy & bubbly in those early years. They were pioneering in so many ways we didn't know at the time and went against the grain even in those first two (failed) bands, Pioneering in recording tecniques too. All that took tremendous courage and vision - and yet we didn't realise it then (calling it 'easy listening') and even looked down on them . How stupid we were.

[landrykkb]

@Tony1949d She still had more to accomplish,even if the Carpenters weren't as in demand in 1983.

[landrykkb]

@MrJacksonvill Of course,anoxeria is a disease,but it can easily be triggered when sombody tells an anorexic they're too fat.

[Tony1949d]

I remember the news of Karen's death. I was bummed out for a long time.