Carole King plays music.
Carole King ( born Carol Joan Klein , February 9 , 1942 ) is an American composer and singer-songwriter . King also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK , making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1952 and 2005 . Her most recent non-compilation album was Live at the Troubadour in 2010 , a collaboration with James Taylor that reached number 4 on the charts in its first week and has sold over 600,000 copies .