Carole King featured on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs Podcast
July 10, 2024
How Carole King Transformed Pop With ‘It’s Too Late’
On this week’s episode of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs, the songwriting legend herself joins hosts Rob Sheffield and Brittany Spanos to tell the story of her confessional classic — and a lot more
There are all other songwriters, and then there is Carole King. Nobody’s ever had an epic career quite like the Brooklyn girl who spent the Sixties writing classic hits for other artists—then spent the Seventies writing her own. With her 1971 solo classic Tapestry, she set the standards that all young singer-songwriters still aspire to reach. She’s always gone her own way as a performer, a composer, an environmental activist. When Taylor Swift inducted King into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023, she simply called her “the greatest songwriter of all time.”
