Girls like us
Subtitle: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon-- and the journey of a generation
By: Sheila Weller
Edition: First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition.
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780743491488
Subjects: Singers; Rock musicians; Biography; Women rock musicians
Description: A portrait of three of the twentieth century's most important musical artists offers a female perspective on coming of age during the 1960s as viewed through the lives and careers of Carole King, Joni Mitchell, and Carly Simon.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: New York : Atria Books, 2008.

Includes "A readers club guide" at the back of the book.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-559), discography (pages 561-564), and index.
Table of contents: title: "We can only look behind from where we came." Overture : Three women, three moments, one journey; title: "I'm home again, in my old narrow bed." Carole ; Joni ; Carly; title: "And the sun poured in like butterscotch." Carole: 1961-1964 ; Joni: 1961-early 1965 ; Carly: 1961-late 1965 ; Carole: 1964-early 1969 ; Joni: March 1965-December 1967 ; Carly: 1965-1969; title: "I feel the earth move under my feet." Joni: late 1967-mid-1970 ; Carole: 1969-1970 / Joni: 1970 / Carole and Joni: early 1971-1972 ; Carly: mid-1970-early 1973; title: "We just come from such different sets of circumstance." Carole: 1972-1984 ; Joni: 1972-1984 ; Joni: 1972-1982 ; Carly: late 1973-late 1987; title: "In the river I know I will find the key." Coda : The middle '80s to the present : three women, three endings, one journey.