You don’t want to get fat, do you? The Karen Carpenter Story 1989 starring Cynthia Gibb & Mitchell Anderson & Peter Michael Goetz & Louise Fletcher & Michael McGuire & Lise Hilboldt & Kip Gilman & Scott Burkholder et al, director Joseph Sargent, Richard to Karen
You look too thin, if you ask me. ibid. mother to daughter
Remember that one article – they called me chubby. ibid. Karen
You are not fat! ibid. mother to daughter
It’s called Anorexic Nervosa. ibid. shrink
Karen Carpenter’s struggle over the years with anorexia nervosa caused damage to her heart. As a result, she suffered heart failure in her parents’ home on February 4 1983 and later died. She was thirty-two years old. ibid. caption
He recorded some of the 1960s greatest songs. Glen Campbell: The Rhinestone Cowboy, BBC 2013
1970s: stories of divorce, drink and drugs. ibid.
As a guitarist he was incomparable. ibid.
Glen was a regular in the US pop show Shindig. ibid.
In 1968 he outsold the Beatles in the USA. ibid.
Now he was America’s fastest rising star. ibid.
BBC 1975: The Glen Campbell Music Show. ibid.
Millions of people became convinced that all the major stars, from Britney Spears to Beyonce were being manipulated and controlled by the Illuminati. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head VI Are We a Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer? ***** BBC 2021
Amy was born in North London in 1983, her dad Mitch a taxi driver and mum Janice a pharmacist. Amy Winehouse: A Life in Ten Pictures, BBC 2021
When this photo was taken, 14-year-old Amy had left mainstream education and was now attending the Sylvia Young Theatre School. ibid.
Now a global superstar, Amy spent most of 2007 touring and performing to sell-out audiences across the world. ibid.
‘Five Grammys, wow. What a night.’ ibid.
After Amy’s death her family and friends set up the Amy Whitehouse Foundation. Much of its focus is helping young women overcome addiction. ibid.
In the weeks after Amy’s death Back to Black became the UK’s best-selling album of the 21st century. ibid.
Soul is heart, is guts, I guess … It’s something that controls you … To sing soul, I think you have to have grit. Amy Winehouse in Her Own Words, caption, BBC 2021
The music that speak to me the most has always been jazz … and that emotional connection to it to you know that so many great singers had. ibid.
What stars we had back then, giants of showbizzness … and of course tragically Ben Elton. Alexei Sayle’s Stuff s2e3: Too Many Names in the Bible