Family facts

Did you know that King singer dated Neil Sedaka when the pair were at school - inspiring his hit 'Oh! Carol!'?

She has four children - musicians Louise and Sherry from her marriage to Gerry Goffin and Molly and Levi from her second marriage to Charles Larkey.

Meanwhile, her parents were both Jewish and her mother Eugenia worked as a teacher while her father Sidney was a firefighter.