Elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (with Gerry Goffin) in 1990.
Ranked #10 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
Co-wrote two songs, "Let You Go" and "One More Time" with pop group Hanson in 2001. Neither of the 2 songs have ever been released by King, or Hanson.
1 son and 3 daughters: Levi, Louise, Molly and Sherry
She is a composer-performer who wrote numerous hit songs for other performers before achieving fame on her own with the album "Tapestry" in 1971. Among her compositions during this early period, usually written in collaboration with her first husband Gerry Goffin, were "Take Good Care of My Baby," a number-one hit in 1961 for Bobby Vee, "Go Away, Little Girl," a number-one hit for both Steve Lawrence (1963) and Donny Osmond (1971), "The Loco-Motion," a number-one hit for both Little Eva (1963) and Grand Funk (1974), and "Pleasent Valley Sunday," a top-ten hit in 1967 for the Monkees. She herself had a top-twenty hit during this period, as well, 1961's "It Might As Well Rain Until September," also co-written with Goffin.
One of music's great songwriters, her 1971 Tapestry album spent more than 300 weeks on the US chart.
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