And, if you weren't around in the 70s, you may not know what a cultural phenomenon the album Tapestry was. (I know I practically wore out my copy of it from playing it so many times.) It remains one of the top-selling albums of all time, and apparently held the record for best-selling album by a female artist for decades, until Adele came along.
"Carole King's Tapestry is a triumph of mass culture. In less than two years it has sold well over five million copies, putting it in a class with the best-selling albums of all time, and it is still on the charts … Such statistics are so overwhelming that they seem to transform a mere record into some sort of ineluctable cultural presence, and in a sense they do."
— Robert Christgau (Newsday, November 1972) |
