Richard Carpenter announces intimate USA 🇺🇸 tour: Dates, venues and tickets revealed

The songwriter – and one half of Carpenters with his sister Karen before her death in 1983 – will not only play his most memorable songs, but also tell the stories behind them at a series of intimate live shows.

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“After too long an absence, I’m very much looking forward to performing for the UK audiences once again,” Richard said.

Carpenters hits that Richard can choose from for the tour include the likes of ‘(They Long To Be) Close To You’, ‘Yesterday Once More’, ‘Superstar’, ‘Top Of the World’, ‘Rainy Days And Mondays’, ‘Only Yesterday’, ‘Please Mr Postman’, ‘There’s A Kind Of Hush’, ‘Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft’, ‘Goodbye To Love’, ‘We’ve Only Just Begun’ and ‘Solitaire’.