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Richard Thompson: A Rock Veteran's New Beginning

Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 17 March 1985

RICHARD AND Linda Thompson, whose 10-year marriage and musical partnership ended in 1982, were a decidedly low-profile couple by rock standards. In fact, they were a low-profile couple by monastery standards. Despite their lack of flamboyance and fame, the Thompsons' private life was watched by the faithful with the kind of fascination usually reserved for a Rod and Britt or Liz and Dick.

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