"Living Famously - Karen Carpenter" BBC Documentary (Pt 5)

Excellent Documentary produced by BBC.

Some great clips and concert footage, as well as interviews by Caroline Corr, Herb Alpert, Burt Bacharach, Jerry Moss, John Bettis, Phil Ramone, Frank Pooler, Mike Curb, Randy Schmidt, and others.

Go here for Pt 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMN_NCCa26U

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• Richard
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• '70s
• retro

[shoponline831]

Poor, thing. It breaks my heart to know how unhappy she was. Had she been happy, she would've been able to recover. Supposedly she did in '82. But putting on 30 lbs in 6 weeks after years of starvation killed her.

[RLviddy]

Seems like everyone around her was in a perpetual state of concern about her. That'd drive anyone up the wall, and might drive someone onto a destructive path. Every testimonial about her feels so patronizing. "She got married, and I thought, this would finally be something normal for her." Jeez.  Did anyone just think of anything she did as just something she was doing?? It always had some deep, mystifying implications. Did anyone just leave her the hell alone to be herself?

[SolaceSoleil]

It sounds like no one really knew Karen Carpenter. Even her brother. She seemed like a very private person...

[Timberextra]

those close to Karen would NEVER disgrace her memory for the likes of this punk!!! anyone can watch the documentaries and embellish it for money, because dumb fucks like yourself bought the fucking book. did you find it under fiction?? fucking douche-bags!!!!!

[gacj2010]

He"s a real Jerk who led his sister Karen to worry , anxiety, and he killed her with his selfishness. He would have been nothing without her.

[Jonnykinski]

Richard is one weird guy. He looks anorexic as well

[richmanpoman1]

She was wearing bulky thick sweatsuits to hide her scrawny frame. Why such a talent was such a mess mentally. I don't get it.

[RaymondHng]

@LastTree Karen Carpenter's self-titled album was released in 1996. It is no longer in print in the United States.

[domdedomify]

I really like Karen's solo album, I think it's great with some brilliant performances.

[LastTree]

Did they release this ever?

[vmuto1]

Randy Schmidts the kind of guy that you would beat up in school. This guy is sooo scripted it's commical. Now year later he writes a book called Little Girl Blue & donate ZERO to eating disorders, yea like peeps say he had this book idea for a long time that would profit him himself & he,

[administrator5109]

Yeah I agree to the psychologist.. Because based on what I've read and heard so far about Karen Carpenter, she was really a sweet and nice person to be with..