YESTERDAY ONCE MORE

Resonant with a sadness you can’t quite place, CARPENTERS music transcends its time and the kitsch niche that detractors would assign it. With pictures from a new book retracing their Journey, and an exclusive interview with RICHARD CARPENTER, MOJO comes to terms with their tragedy, and legacy. “I lost my friend, my sister and my musical partner,” hears JIM IRVIN

THERE IS SOME-THING ineffable about Carpenters, that sugar-frosted Trojan Horse filled with longing. Their apparently sunny and unthreatening music shimmers between euphoria and sadness, diaphanous enough to see through to some other possibility, one perhaps unintended and yet transmitted loud and clear. Siblings Richard and Karen were born in 1946 and 1950 respectively, and raised in New Haven, Connecticut, the children of printer Harold and his wife Agnes Carpenter. Richard was a quiet, interior child, fixated on all kinds of pop music. Karen was outdoors, playing sport and being gregarious. Richard taught himself piano by ear and Karen would bring home school friends to join him in the basement and listen to records. Carpenters’ 1973 album, Now & Then, the one with a side of oldies linked by a fake…

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MOJO (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2021

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