Close To You: Remembering The Carpenters

here are 35 minutes of extras, though a good chunk of this is simply a slideshow of photos. Encore features performances of Hideaway and Ave Maria - the latter is quite stunning - as well as some adverts that the band made which see Karen emoting soulfully about "a whole new bag, so crisp, potato chips from Morton's - the really fresh ones". A couple of Lost In Translation-style Japanese commercials for chocolate and fizzy drinks pile on the irony, given Karen's food issues.

The Carpenters At The White House show them performing for and meeting Richard Nixon, pre-Watergate.

The picture quality on the DVD is decent and the sound clean, allowing those lovely vocals to ring clear as a bell.