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On the horizon for 2022, there’s a retooling of the two Carpenters Christmas albums into one musically and sonically improved disc.
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He also has two Steinways in his suburban Los Angeles home.Īt age 75, Richard Carpenter seems nowhere near retirement.
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Richard has performed on Steinway grand pianos on all but one of the Carpenters albums, as well as on the new Piano Songbook album. Returning to the Carpenters’ former home away from home “was quite emotional,” Richard recalls.Ī barrage of media interviews plugging the book and album began in late August and will continue through the year, but on October 27, Richard got a night off to attend a private gala at The Wallis Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, where he was named a “Steinway Artist,” celebrating his career-long association with the 160-year-old instrument maker Steinway & Sons. It marked Carpenter’s first time in nearly 30 years performing on the site of the former A&M Records lot, where he and Karen recorded all of their hits. Richard’s summer also included a trip to the Henson Studios in Hollywood, to shoot promotional videos for Piano Songbook. Already available in Japan, it’s set for releaseworldwide by Decca on January 14. And by June, he was recording Richard Carpenter’s Piano Songbook, a collection of piano-solo versions of Carpenters greatest hits and fan favorites. In the late spring, Carpenter had yet to put finishing touches on the book when he began preparations for his third solo album. “For those who are just discovering the Carpenters or those who have been with us from the start and want to know every little thing about our career, this is the definitive tome,” Richard says. The book also includes a painstakingly researched discography, along with essays by (and interviews with) key Carpenters colleagues.
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But it’s really a genre buster: part biography, part memoir, and part reference guide. Weighing in at almost four pounds, and containing 344 pages and approximately 300 images, at first glance Carpenters: The Musical Legacy looks like a mere coffee-table book of pretty photos. “I didn’t want this to be yet another one of those authorized biographies where this famous person never admits to making a single mistake,” Richard explains during a press junket for the book in September. In fact, after reviewing the writers’ first draft of the book, Richard was adamant about more personal details being included. While the writers were committed to keeping the book’s narrative strictly business, they insisted Carpenter address the duo’s personal demons – notably, his addiction to sleeping medication and her eating disorder – when they affected the recordings.Ĭarpenter lived up to the agreement, and then some. Although immaculately organized, most of the items were untouched for decades and never published.
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Subsequently, Richard had other offers to tell the duo’s story, but he wasn’t intrigued until Cidoni and May came along in summer 2018, the two noting they’d had enough of media features, documentaries, and books focusing on Karen’s eating disorder (anorexia nervosa) and the complications which led to her death in 1983 at the age 32.Īfter the writers promised to put the spotlight back on the duo’s career, specifically their recordings, “I agreed to become involved in the project and involved I became,” Richard writes in the book’s introduction.Ĭarpenter submitted to approximately 100 hours of interviews and gave the authors access to his rarely visited archive of thousands of Carpenters artifacts, including family photos, outtakes from album-cover shoots, legends from master tapes, handwritten itineraries. But the writer delivered what Richard has called, “the anorexia book” – and in it, for the most part, the story of the Carpenters’ music went untold. Richard authorized one other Carpenters biography published in 1994.