Girls like us
Subtitle: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon--and the journey of a generation
By: Sheila Weller
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780743491471
Subjects: Singers; Rock musicians; Biography; Women rock musicians
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 545-559), and discography (p. 561-564), and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: "We can only look behind from where we came" --; title: Overture : Three women, three moments, one journey -- -- pt. 2.; title: "I'm home again, in my old narrow bed" -- -- ch. 1.; title: Carole -- -- ch. 2.; title: Joni -- -- ch. 3.; title: Carly -- -- pt. 3.; title: "And the sun poured in like butterscotch" -- -- ch. 4.; title: Carole : 1961-1964 -- -- ch. 5.; title: Joni : 1961-early 1965 -- -- ch. 6.; title: Carly : 1961-late 1965 -- -- ch. 7.; title: Carole : 1964-early 1969 -- -- ch. 8.; title: Joni : March 1965-December 1967 -- -- ch. 9.; title: Carly : 1965-1969 -- -- pt. 4.; title: "I feel the earth move under my feet" -- -- ch. 10.; title: Joni : late 1967-mid-1970 -- -- ch. 11.; title: Carole : 1969-1970 / Joni : 1970 / Carole and Joni : early 1971-1972 -- -- ch. 12.; title: Carly : mid-1970-early 1973 -- -- pt. 5.; title: "We just come from such different sets of circumstance" -- -- ch. 13.; title: Carole : 1972-1984 -- -- ch. 14.; title: Joni : 1972-1984 -- -- ch. 14.; title: Joni : 1972-1982 -- -- ch. 15.; title: Carly : late 1973-late 1987 -- -- pt. 6.; title: "In the river I know I will find the key" --; title: Coda : The middle '80s to the present : three women, three endings, one journey --; title: Source notes --; title: Acknowledgments --; title: Bibliography --; title: Discography --; title: Index.