I'm sad to say I missed it - and perhaps you did too - the anniversary this week of the death of Karen Carpenter, who died on February 4 back in 1983

Karen Anne Carpenter (March 2, 1950 – February 4, 1983) was a highly successful American singer and drummer. She and her brother, Richard, formed the popular 1970s duo The Carpenters.

Karen Carpenter was an accomplished drummer, placing first in Playboy's reader poll for Best Rock Drummer of 1975, thus pioneering the way for a plethora of female drummers to follow. But it is for her vocal performances that she is best remembered. She suffered from anorexia nervosa, a little known disease at the time. Apparently recovering, she died suddenly at the age of 32 from heart failure later attributed to complications related to her illness