(Idaho singer Carole) King’s new memoir, A Natural Woman, which she has been writing for years, tells how a Queens girl was able to get in on the ground floor of Rock and Roll in the Brill Building music machine of the early 1960s and rise to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and become the multiple Grammy winner with songs like “It’s Too Late,” “I Feel The Earth Move,” and “You Got a Friend.” Remarkably, King, who always sought to protect her private life, reveals the relationships with her four husbands that were unsettling and sometimes painful. Goffin suffered mental health issues that forced King to become a single mother. Her third husband Rick Evers brought her to Idaho and, she reveals in the book, physically abused her regularly. In one of the most dramatic pages in the book King writes what she said was more difficult to acknowledge: “I stayed.” She told the story so that other women in similar circumstances can relate and perhaps find their own way out. Her gutsy introspection adds a new chapter to her pioneering life. But for Idahoans the real treat is her own story of life her/Rocky Barker, Idaho Statesman. More here.

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