Describes the childhood and music career of the lead singer of the Carpenters, a popular singing duo in the 1970s, and her early death from heart failure, the result of years of suffering with anorexia nervosa.
A biography of singer Marvin Gaye, whose string of hits with Motown, including "I Heard it Through the Grapevine, " seemed endless until he was murdered in 1984 by his father.
