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Carpenters
Making a fine art out of lush, sentimental, romantic ballads, the brother/sister
duo the Carpenters had a phenomenal run of hits in the 1970s broken only by the
velvet-voiced Karen Carpenter's long battle with anorexia nervosa; which finally
ended with her tragic death from a heart attack in 1983 at the age of 32. They
first teamed up in 1965 when Karen joined Spectrum, a jazz-flavoured group her
brother Richard had formed in Los Angeles after linking up with a student friend
John Bettis to write many of the now classic Carpenters hits. In 1968 Spectrum
disbanded, but Richard and...
