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Catch Carole King ‘Tapestry’ July 11 in theaters

Dan Webster

In the spring of 1971, I was attending Mesa Junior College in San Diego and living with a couple of roommates. Other than studying and working at our part-time jobs, we spent our time watching movies, bad TV ("Dark Shadows" was a favorite) and listening to music.

Somewhere around that time, somebody — my roommate Murray (real name Roy), I think — bought a copy of an LP that was big that year: Carole King's "Tapestry." And we played it a lot.

Apparently for good reason. "Tapestry" went on to become one of the best albums ever, with more than 25 million reported sales. It won Grammies and stayed the charts for more than 300 weeks.

In 2016, King — who is now 75 — performed the songs on the album at London's BST Hyde Park, part of a series of concerts under the banner of British Summer Time. The concert was recorded and is now being shown in theaters across the nation sponsored by Fathom Events.

"Carole King Tapestry: Captured Live From Hyde Park London" will screen locally at both the Northtown Mall and Coeur d'Alene's Riverstone Stadium theaters at 7 p.m. on July 11.

If nothing else, it should provide some of us a healthy dose of nostalgia when those first piano chords of "I Feel the Earth Move" (click on the embed below) pound out from the screen.