Fact #117319
When:
Short story:
Karen Carpenter, of The Carpenters, now weighing a mere 90lb, begins two months of resting, hopefully to get over her anorexia. A UK tour is cancelled.
Full article:
Richard Carpenter : I still have no idea what caused her anorexia. The disorder is a mystery. Personally, I don't believe her career had anything to do with it. Karen loved singing and recording more than anything in the world.
In '75, we had to postpone two international tours. The whole rest of the year we did nothing. Then we started back up again in January of '76. We were hoping her situation was temporary, but it was up and down.
Then the singles stopped happening. Without a doubt, I picked a couple of duds. We felt frustrated. We were still selling a lot of records, the company, A + M, was still behind us, and we had the two of us. We always felt that the next one would be it, which is every recording artist’s cry, so we kept on.
And Karen was still battling with her problem. She didn’t want to admit it. I remember quite a few talks with her. I said, "I'm going to kick back. Why don't you take this opportunity to seek some help, while I'm just relaxing and recharging and getting ready to start a new decade? We'll come back and start over in the Eighties."
But still, she did not want to recognize, or could not recognize, that she had a problem.
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In '75, we had to postpone two international tours. The whole rest of the year we did nothing. Then we started back up again in January of '76. We were hoping her situation was temporary, but it was up and down.
Then the singles stopped happening. Without a doubt, I picked a couple of duds. We felt frustrated. We were still selling a lot of records, the company, A + M, was still behind us, and we had the two of us. We always felt that the next one would be it, which is every recording artist’s cry, so we kept on.
And Karen was still battling with her problem. She didn’t want to admit it. I remember quite a few talks with her. I said, "I'm going to kick back. Why don't you take this opportunity to seek some help, while I'm just relaxing and recharging and getting ready to start a new decade? We'll come back and start over in the Eighties."
But still, she did not want to recognize, or could not recognize, that she had a problem.