Karen Carpenter - Accolades

Accolades

• 1975 – In Playboy magazine's annual opinion poll, its readers voted Karen Carpenter the Best Rock Drummer of the year. Apparently this greatly displeased John Bonham from Led Zeppelin as he came in second. He was quoted as saying: "I'd like to have it publicised that I came in after Karen Carpenter in the Playboy drummer poll! She couldn't last ten minutes with a Zeppelin number."

• 1999 – VH1 ranked Karen Carpenter at #29 on its list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll.

• 2008 – Rolling Stone ranked Karen Carpenter number 94 on its list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.