This book is comprehensive, covering off anything you ever wanted to know about the Carpenters' music career. It touches on the addiction that effected both of them but it didn't affect their musical creation. Every recording they ever did, every media appearance, every concert, every chart position of everything they released, it's all there. Also include are a lot of lovely photos of them as well as memorabilia from Richard Carpenters' personal collection. He's a collaborator on this book and it shows. You really don't need anything else. ( )