What the Hell Happened to Eric Carmen?

Transitioning?

He looks like June Allyson!

I can see that r2. I was going to say Olivia de Havilland.

He claims that this is one of his best songs - but the vocal is SO weak.

I was think more along the lines of Rose Marie, may she rest in peace.

Yeah he looks like a woman who has had bad plastic surgery.

He was always odd looking and the way he dressed was bizarre - and don't say "It was the 70s!" - he looked odd then.

That's not Eric Carmen. That's his mother.

I legit thought this said "Eric Cartman" at first.

Looks like Manilow’s heftier cousin and sounds like Ralph the piano-playing dog on The Muppet Show.

He’s been struggling with alcoholism for decades. Let’s all pile on and ridicule his appearance!

Isn’t that what we’re doing?

He was 'emo' long before that term was invented. I wonder if it's occurred to him that when you tour and sing about being stuck in a 'town full of desperate fools' you've essentially cast your audience in the role of the fool.

I guess this is why he sold out to Applebee's.

Weird ass

He was a joke starting out in Cleveland. The 70s outfits made people think he was gay--more of a matter of fact judgement than a putdown. I think his father owned a meat market, but he had an aunt who played for the Cleveland Orchestra, so there was music in the family. He finally married at 70 which makes me think gay, gay, gay.

Loved "I Wanna Be With You" and "Go All The Way" when he led the Raspberries. I guess his big solo hit was "All By Myself", but he had another hit based on some classical piece...I'm drawing a blank...

I always got him confused with Gino Vaginelli.

Seriously, he must have a hormonal problem. His testosterone may be low or he has a petuitary gland issue.

For you OP

What happened to singer Eric Carmen? He simply got old/older which is a sin in show business. Not his fault and it happens to all of them.

Eric back in the day with Clive Davis. He is now 69.

I loved the Raspberries and feel they were underrated. Eric got very schmaltzy as a solo act. I have his first solo album but never bought another one. But he was very talented musically I think. He reminded me of Billy Joel in the fact that they both grew up with some classical training and you can always hear their classical training come out in lots of their earlier music. Still, I have always wondered what became of him. I'm a bit afraid to watch this video as I don't want to feel bad for him. I remember watching the Raspberries on Bandstand.

TOO GAY

[quote]I'm a bit afraid to watch this video as I don't want to feel bad for him.

He's alright, don't worry.

[quote] He reminded me of Billy Joel in the fact that they both grew up with some classical training and you can always hear their classical training come out in lots of their earlier music.

yes, some of the songs were based on famous classical pieces.

@R17 . I forgot that he was the singer for The Raspberries. 'Go All the Way' was indeed a great song.

He looks like Jane Fonda in r22’s pic.

Eric Carmen as the years go on.

Handsome, classic gayface.

I liked a few of his songs - he seems like a closeted gay man. ONJ covered his "Boats Against the Current" song on the "Totally Hot" album - not a memorable song

This is one of my favorites which happened to be his last hit. The best song Billy Joel never wrote.

Not just "any" classical pieces - RACHMANINOV.

Gay, gay, gay.

All By Myself and Never Gonna Fall in Love Again are 2 of the best Carpenters songs not written or sung by Carpenters.

No love for 1985's "I Wanna Hear It From Your Lips"...??

OMG, some of you are too much.

He just looks like a typical effeminate looking guy, like, I dunno, Little Richard? The way everyone was reacting, I thought this was on the level of that one heavy metal guy (forgot his name) who goes around wearing pant suits and lipstick.

Raspberries best song was "Let's Pretend".

Paul McCartney said that was the song he had always tried to write.

R36 Paul McCartney wrote too many shitty songs in later years.

R36 Let’s Pretend and McCartney’s With a Liitle Luck sound familiar.

Wait, Eric Carmen is a straight man?

Gay gay gay gay gay gay gay

I know him. He's not gay he just has no personality. He has a lot of $$$. Just got married for the 2nd time a few years ago to a cotton-candy blonde. He looks frightening in person. Wears make-up sometimes.

Talk about hungry eyes.

I stumbled across his name while googling someone else and wondered -- and still wonder -- who in the hell is Eric Carmen? I'm old enough to know who other flaming closet cases are -- like Neil Sedaka and Wayne Newton -- but Eric Carmen?

As someone above said, he looks like a cross between June Allyson and Rose Marie. No way this guy is straight.

R29 you have a very, very strange idea of "handsome."

R35 get your eyes checked, that is not a "typical effeminate-looking guy." When I scrolled past the pic in OP I honest to God thought that it was a dumpy middle-aged Frau.

He's a very handsome guy, but he needs to leave his eyebrows alone...but god damn, otherwise he's handsome as fuck.

LOL at the poster who made the Rose Marie comparison. It's dead on.

Rose Marie yes, but with a little Shirley Temple Black rolled in.

Too late R45. Waaaay too late.

Oh, and by the way, get your prescription checked.

He’s a giant Trumptard. Fuck him.

A drag queen is a Trump fan? That's interesting

[R50] Lots are...so is KC (of Sunshine Band fame). Major Republican. KC is still closeted in his 70s too, of course.

I was actually friends with the family who lived across the street from him, R51.

[quote] He looks like June Allyson!

Hopefully, he doesn't need to shit in a diaper like she did.

He looks like he's turning into Paul Williams!

R52 KC's family? Any good stories? I've heard he became kind of shitty to his family after he got rich.

[quote]He looks like he's turning into Paul Williams!

Paul Williams spent his time between the two Muppet movies he wrote songs for drinking, so that's no surprise.

These photos scare me. No lie.

[quote]that one heavy metal guy (forgot his name) who goes around wearing pant suits and lipstick.

Who on earth is this referring to? If there's a heavy metal rocker who wears pantsuits, I want to know about it.

David Lee roth?

OP, he will be entertaining along with Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, and Chachi at the Trump inauguration this August.

R56 I agree! They are truly frightening! "Baby Jane" level frightening... :-0

r33 Fun fact, those two songs borrowed melodies from Rachmoninoff....

There's been a lot of plastic surgery and fillers but its the hair that takes it to a crazy place. its just not the hair of a 70 year old man.

people post tons of old lady pics where the hair (or wig) is what keeps them looking much younger and more vibrant than they would without it. I think the opposite is true for men. Fake young people hair just looks ridiculous. although he probably is performing before or after that interview, so its made up for being on stage.

Face transplant?

R31's video... he looks like a female John Cougar Mellencamp.

R61 He had to pay money to the Rachmaninoff estate because he lifted the melodies, thinking they were public domain...but weren't.

He looks very odd here, too (but the hair looks less like a wig):

He gets fucked up the ass by huge uncut Latinos - I was one of them

"Hungry Eyes" was one of the greatest songs ever.

R34 God, I forgot about that song! I remember liking it when it came out, though. Very catchy--should have been a bigger hit.

He's morphing into "Erica", now OP.

The OP's small photo, before clicking on it, suggested some image of a recently interviewed Julie Andrews.