Sheila Weller’s book focuses on the lives of Carly Simon, Carole King, and Joni Mitchell as they helped shape the musical landscape of the sixties and seventies, eagerly asserting that the tumultuous offstage lives of its subjects didn’t necessarily bruise their canons of work (if anything, it only strengthened them).

The Best Links:

1. Feist’s “1234”
2. Carly Simon and James Taylor: Still Butting Heads?
3. The New York Times Calls the Book “Entertaining and Intelligent”
4. “Sure, Weller Gossips, But How Could She Not?” Pop Matters Calls “Girls Like Us” “Surprisingly Stellar”
5. Author Sheila Weller Takes You Back to the Era of Ponchos, Lady Troubadours, and Lilting Acoustics
6. “Girls Like Us” is “Eminently Readable, if Somewhat Gossipy”
7. Read a [Long] Excerpt From The Book
8. Buy <i>Girls Like Us</i>