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Only Yesterday: The Carpenters Story

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Only Yesterday: The Carpenters' Story

09/04/2007

BBC One - Only Yesterday: The Carpenters Story

Profile of The Carpenters, one of the biggest-selling pop acts of the 1970s.

Documentary about brother and sister duo The Carpenters, one of the biggest-selling pop acts of the 1970s, but one with a destructive and complex secret that ended in tragedy.

The Carpenters were one of the biggest selling pop artists of the 1970s, but what seemed on the surface as the perfect, wholesome brother and sister duo hid a destructive complex truth that was unknown to the world. 

Featuring behind the scenes footage, interviews with brother Richard, family and friends, this documentary traces the story that ended in tragedy with sister Karen's untimely death aged just 32.

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