The music of Carole King has a special place in Kirsty Findlay’s heart. In 1988, her mother, June McCreadie, appeared on the TV talent show New Faces singing one of King’s hits. “The first time I ever heard a Carole King song was when my mum sang Beautiful,” she says. “It was the Barbra Streisand version, but it wasn’t that much different!”
Findlay grew up in a musical household (her dad and uncle were in her mum’s band) and was aware of the singer-songwriter in the same vague way many of us are. Not everyone knows the name of Carole King, but few can have escaped her many hit songs. In the UK, more than 60 of them reached the charts, among them It’s Too Late, I Feel The Earth Move and Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
But Findlay’s real entry point came from an unexpected source. “As a teenager, my way in was Gilmore Girls,” she recalls. [READ MORE]