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July 27, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Carpenters: The Road To Yesterday (Live 1974)

Carpenters The Road To Yesterday (Live 1974) Stiletto Discs The Carpenters worked themselves non-stop. They were a hard-touring band on account of all the hits they had. That’s how it worked. They kept having hit singles, kept hitting the road. It sent Richard to the uppers and it was a big downer for Karen, part […]

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July 24, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 85

Carpenters, Voice of the Heart (1983) I am a Carpenters fan – but that wasn’t always the case, I had to ‘come out’ as such. The tribute album gave me the license – but the songs had always been in my heart. For many years I had a Greatest Hits album on vinyl but in […]

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November 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 210

Carpenters, Horizon (1975) Been on a big Carpenters trip lately, and though they’ve been in my life forever it’s only now I realise that I’m a Greatest Hits-player…well, I know a few of the albums but this is the first time I’ve decided to listen through to them all. There’s some great lesser known gems […]