The Untold Truth Of Carole King

Carole King met fellow singer-songwriter James Taylor at a concert in New York City, and the pair became fast friends. According to PBS, it was Taylor who encouraged King to sing her own songs rather than only writing songs for other musicians. In the 1970s, King and Taylor were both living in the Laurel Canyon

Carole King met fellow singer-songwriter James Taylor at a concert in New York City, and the pair became fast friends. According to PBS, it was Taylor who encouraged King to sing her own songs rather than only writing songs for other musicians. In the 1970s, King and Taylor were both living in the Laurel Canyon area of California, along with several other prominent songwriters of the time. "It really was a perfect moment, that Laurel Canyon period," Taylor told The Guardian in 2020. "Carole lived up there, Joni and I lived in her house there for the better part of a year ... There was a sense of there being a community: myself, Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Crosby, Stills and Nash. David Geffen was in the mix a lot. Linda Ronstadt, Peter Asher, Harry Nilsson. You know, it was pretty much what they say. Things really worked well."

According to The Guardian, Taylor's lyric, "I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend," from "Fire and Rain," inspired King to write the song "You've Got a Friend" for him. The old friends toured together as recently as 2010, per NPR.

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