Gerry Goffin was the husband of which singer?
Gerry Goffin of the first people to take notice of Kelly Clarkson's talent and had hired her to do demo work before she auditioned for "American Idol" in 2002. Gerry Goffin was married to Carole King between 1959 and 1969; they had two daughters, singer-songwriter Louise Goffin and Sherry Goffin Kondor. Goffin also had a daughter, Dawn, with Jeanie Reavis (Earl-Jean McCrea). He married Barbara Behling in the early 1970s and had a son, Jesse Dean Goffin, in 1976. They divorced later that decade. Goffin then married songwriter Ellen Minasian in the 1980s and had one daughter, Lauren, in 1984. Following their
Gerry Goffin John Lennon was quoted as saying that he wanted Paul McCartney and himself to become "the Goffin-King of England". In 1964, Goffin fathered a daughter with singer Jeanie Reavis (whose recording of I'm into Something Good preceded Herman's Hermits' better-known version), but he and King remained together for several years before divorcing in 1969. Goffin later said in an interview in "Vanity Fair" that he "wanted to be a hippie—grew my hair long—and Carole did it modestly... And then I started taking LSD and mescaline. And Carole and I began to grow apart because she felt that she had to