...just saw that a book called Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter is coming out this July. If the cover is any indication (and the fact that her friend Dionne Warwick is involved), hopefully this will be a biography written with respect and consideration, not like the articles that ran in tabloids after Karen Carpenter passed away. Her lovely voice and music have often been overshadowed by her tragic death.
There's a Facebook page for the book:
http://www.facebook.com/search/?ref=search&q=little%20girl%20blue&init=quick#!/littlegirlbluekc?ref=search&sid=533065246.21501579..1
I remember a few weeks after she passed away, People magazine ran a cover article with a ghastly photo that was actually taken at a public appearance long before the last weeks of her death. Ironically, Karen Carpenter had physically "recovered," but the toll of intravenous
feeding and sudden weight "gain" (what would still be under normal weight for most of us, but closer to a 'healthy' weight than it had been for her) on her tiny frame was too much for her heart.
In the more than 25 years since she died, the singer's life has been the brunt of eating disorder jokes and endless speculation about whether she also had bulimia. Sometimes lost in all of that is the fact that she was perhaps one of the greatest female vocalists of the 20th century....(of course I have loved the Carpenters since I was a child so I may be a bit biased)
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