HOT CHICKS WITH SOME COOL TRACKS.

WHEN in 1959, at the age of 17, Carole King (real name Klein) got pregnant by her first boyfriend, Gerry Goffin, they did what nearly every lower-middle-class Jewish Brooklyn couple did then. They got married, sometimes taking their baby to work with them in New York where they wrote rock'n'roll songs. Five years later, aspiring folk singer Joni Mitchell, aged 19, got pregnant too, but made a different choice. Leaving her home in a Canadian prairie town, she went to Toronto and had her baby without telling her ultra-respectable parents. The baby was adopted. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]