Urgent:Richard Carpenter Rushed to the hospital in a critical condition
Richard, Karen Carpenter’s brother, has one strong recollection of the singer that he has carried with him throughout the years. The pair, known as Carpenters, took home the Grammy for best new artist in 1971.
The singer/songwriter told Fox News, “This was not even a year after ‘Close to You’ had been released.” “Everything happened so quickly. Here we are on stage as the CBS broadcast of the concert
“We weren’t that much more than kids really,” he shared. “I was 23 and she had just turned 20. It all truly occurred overnight. We weren’t known one day and then the next, we were on so many radio stations and our songs were getting repeated airplay that you just kept hearing it over and over. But I still remember that moment, when she tugged on my tux.”
His beloved sibling’s life was tragically cut short. Karen passed away in 1983 from heart failure, a complication of anorexia, at age 32. But Richard, 75, wants the focus to now be on Karen’s life and the success they achieved together.
For years, Richard has passed on many retrospective projects, after facing decades of questions about his sister’s inner life and death. But when he was approached to write a book about their music – and that alone – the answer was a resounding yes. Richard teamed up with Associated Press journalist Mike Cidoni Lennox and Chris May to write the coffee table book “Carpenters: The Musical Legacy.” It’s been described as a nearly note-for-note musical biography of the pair that goes back to their
