By the age of 16, Brooklyn-born Carol Joan Klein - soon to adopt the professional name of Carole King - was already an accomplished classical pianist, had dated a guy named Neil Sedaka in high school, was enrolled as a student at New York's Queens College, and was just precocious and confident enough to hawk her pop songs to producers at the Brill Building, the fabled "music factory" at 1650 Broadway, just a few bloc…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 04:09PM on December 3, 2015