The supergroup Carole King formed with Paul SimonThere’s always a gamble when someone mentions the word ‘supergroup’ when talking about any act. But for a brief second, it looked like Carole King had the chance of working with another industry giant. But when King first began writing tunes, she never envisioned being at the front of the stage. After all, this was the era when some of the biggest stars in the world needed to be larger than life. Both of them had been helping each other out on songs, and before Simon and Garfunkel, King remembered her and Simon having a group, saying, “Paul and I sort of got together and formed this little group that we called The Cousins.