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2020 While performing at the Get Out The Vote rally in New Hampshire in support of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, The Strokes debut the animated video for their new single "At The Door." They also perform the forthcoming followup single "Bad Decisions" for the first time.More

2019 At the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, Leon Bridges and PJ Morton tie for Best Traditional R&B Performance when Bridges' "Bet Ain't Worth The Hand" and Morton's cover of the Bee Gees' "How Deep Is Your Love" both win the title. It's the first Grammy win for both artists.

2017 Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2013 Janis Ian wins the Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for her autobiography Society's Child, beating out Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, Rachel Maddow and Ellen DeGeneres. Ian quips: "I keep thinking there's got to be a punchline here: an ex-president, the First Lady and three lesbians walk into a bar..."

2008 Justin Timberlake's "What Goes Around... Comes Around" wins the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. He also takes Best Dance Recording for "LoveStoned/I Think She Knows."

2008 Amy Winehouse is the big winner at the Grammy Awards, taking five trophies, including Best New Artist, Record of the Year and Song of the Year (both for "Rehab").

2008 Ne-Yo's sophomore album, Because Of You, wins the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album. It's the singer-songwriter's first Grammy win.

2008 Famous spaghetti western composer Ennio Morricone and Bruce Springsteen win the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental. Springsteen covered Morricone's classic "Once Upon a Time in the West."

2008 Daft Punk make their first televised live appearance at the 50th Grammy Awards, joining Kanye West in a performance of "Stronger" at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

2006 James "Jay Dilla" Yancey dies of a heart attack at age 32, just three days after the release of his final album, Donuts.

2004 Kanye West, known for producing tracks on Jay-Z's 2001 album The Blueprint, releases his debut album, The College Dropout.More

2004 Eminem is among the guests heard on the second season premiere episode of Comedy Central's Crank Yankers. The rapper gives voice to "Bobby's Brother" opposite comedian Jim Florentine's "Bobby" in a prank phone call to a restaurant.

2001 Jennifer Lopez' album J.Lo goes to #1 in America. Her movie The Wedding Planner is #1 at the box office, making her the first person with a #1 movie and album at the same time.

1993 Michael Jackson appears on Oprah's prime time special, where he talks about having a skin condition called Vitiligo, and claims he's had just 2 plastic surgery operations.

1990 Paula Abdul's "Opposites Attract," a duet with MC Skat Cat (Minnesota DJ Derrick "Delite" Stevens), goes to #1 in America, where it stays for three weeks.

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Carole King Releases Tapestry

1971

Carole King releases her seminal album Tapestry.


The album cover features the barefoot, 29-year-old singer sitting on a window sill in the living room of her Laurel Canyon home while her cat, Telemachus, peers into the camera. King holds a needlepoint tapestry she's recently finished, which gave her the idea for the title track and inspired the album's concept. Before the release of Tapestry, most were unfamiliar with Carole King, at least by name, but they certainly knew her work. During the previous decade, King and her then-husband Gerry Goffin were Brill Building scribes (via Aldon Music) who churned out enduring hits like "The Loco-Motion," "One Fine Day," "I'm Into Something Good" and the Aretha Franklin anthem "You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman." King identified as a songwriter and only performed as a means to share her songs – plus she had stage fright. After her close friend James Taylor encouraged her to pursue a singing career, she recorded her debut album, Writer. But it's Tapestry that brings her, and the singer-songwriter genre, to the heights of fame. With producer Lou Adler at the helm, Tapestry dips into the Goffin-King oeuvre with King's intimate renderings of her hits for other artists, including the Shirelles' 1960 chart-topper "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" and Franklin's "Natural Woman." Her mature and sensitive examinations of troubled relationships in the lead single "It's Too Late" and its follow up "So Far Away," along with the uninhibited sexiness of "So Far Away" ring true with listeners and the sentimentality of "You've Got a Friend," which James Taylor turns into a #1 hit, pulls all the right heart strings. Seth Swirsky, a Chappell Music staff songwriter-turned-solo artist, spoke to Songfacts about Tapestry's significance: "It turned out to be an album that hit everybody, what they were thinking and feeling, right at that moment. America in the '60s, everybody was moving away to San Francisco, and flowers in their hair, and it was tumultuous. But here it was a Tapestry of home again." Adler keeps the production simple to focus on King's raw vocals and emotional lyrics and brings lots of talent on for support, including Taylor (acoustic guitar, backing vocals), Joni Mitchell (backing vocals), Danny Kortchmar (guitars, congas), Charles Larkey (bass), Curtis Amy (sax, flute), and prolific session drummer Russ Kunkel, among others. By June, Tapestry hits #1 on the albums chart, where it stays at the top for 15 consecutive weeks and on the tally for six years. King also becomes the first woman to take home the top Grammy prizes for Album of the Year, Record of the Year ("It's Too Late"), Song of the Year (for Taylor's version of "You've Got A Friend") and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.

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Chris from NjThis should be required listening for anyone who likes music. These songs are just so beautiful and Carole King’s voice is the warm blanket we all need to feel a little bit better. Truly a timeless masterpiece.
Dm from PaI loved the Tapestry album. I wore it out. Carole King is a treasure. Her music is timeless. Hail to the Queen.

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