Richard and Linda Thompson
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Richard & Linda Thompson: Hokey Pokey
Review by Jerry Gilbert, ZigZag, September 1975
THE SINGULAR most remarkable aspect of this album is its manifestation of Richard Thompson's capacity to absorb. And if that sounds a long winded way ...
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Richard and Linda Thompson: British Hokey Pokey
Profile and Interview by Dave Laing, Let It Rock, May 1974
ALTHOUGH the mid sixties was a golden era for British rock, very few of the best artists from that time have survived as significant parts ...
Richard and Linda Thompson: I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight (Island ILPS 9266)
Review by Jerry Gilbert, Sounds, 4 May 1974
Richard and Linda put on the shine ...
Richard and Linda Thompson: Life without Fairport
Interview by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 15 June 1974
RICHARD THOMPSON wrote 'Meet On The Ledge', in case you'd forgotten. On that basis alone the man would be due a certain portion of immortality. ...
Review by Sam Sutherland, Phonograph Record, March 1975
SINCE DEPARTING Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson has risked increasing obscurity to pursue a personal style in direct variance with his most obvious commercial skills. Sinewy, ...
Richard and Linda Thompson: Do You Wanna Be A Star?
Interview by Bob Woffinden, New Musical Express, 8 March 1975
IT WAS ONE of those large Edwardian houses in London's Hampstead, just off the main road. Like most of the others, it had been converted ...
Richard and Linda Thompson: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Live Review by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 3 May 1975
IT WAS a night steeped in nostalgia. One of those occasions when the event was more important and ultimately more memorable than the music. Lots ...
Interview by Steve Burgess, Dark Star, December 1978
I HAVE THIS adrenaline-fueled, hyper-hallucinatory recall of the first time I saw Richard Thompson away from club stages and makeshift podiums in Hyde Park. He ...
Frank Zappa: Joe's Garage ; Richard and Linda Thompson: Sunnyvista
Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 1979
ROCK AND ROLL survives on an illusion of dynamism built upon critical inertia, upon endlessly repeated truths such as the oft-heard oppositions of 'old/new wave' ...
Richard and Linda Thompson's Flight From Convention
Interview by Mick Brown, Rolling Stone, 5 April 1979
"IF I DON'T seem a part of the recording industry, it's probably because I don't feel a part of it," says Richard Thompson, the guitarist/songwriter/singer ...
Richard And Linda Thompson: Sunnyvista (Chrysalis)
Review by Penny Valentine, Melody Maker, 22 September 1979
THIS THOMPSONS package tour is a fine irony. Its visuals signal a break from the couple's traditional melancholy, replacing it with a sarcastic, partially threatening, ...
Richard and Linda Thompson: Dominion, London
Live Review by Mick Brown, The Guardian, 7 May 1982
LOOSELY SPEAKING, Richard Thompson is the sole practising legatee of the British folk-rock tradition which he was instrumental in establishing 14 years ago as a ...
Richard and Linda Thompson: Let There Be Lights
Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 1982
RICHARD AND Linda Thompson opened their show at the Roxy Thursday night with 'A Man in Need', and followed it with 'Walking on a Wire', ...
Richard & Linda Thompson: Shoot Out The Lights (Hannibal)
Review by Jim Farber, Creem, August 1982
TO RICHARD and Linda Thompson there's a movement to life — and you could call it "falling." The Thompsons' first U.S. album in four years ...
No Bright Ones Tonight: Richard Thompson Shoots Out The Lights
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Creem, September 1982
THERE IS A story circulating about Richard Thompson. The way I heard it, the Eagles approached him, prior to hiring Joe Walsh: they wanted Thompson ...
Richard Thompson: A Rock Veteran's New Beginning
Profile and Interview by 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 ...
"The Most Exciting Thing Is Playing Live" — Richard Thompson Downplays Studio Work
Interview by Jeff Tamarkin, Billboard, 30 March 1985
NEW YORK — Considering that Richard Thompson's albums invariably end up near the top of year-end critics' polls, one would think that the veteran British ...
Linda and Richard Find There’s Life After Divorce
Interview by Charles Bermant, The Globe and Mail, 6 April 1985
LINDA THOMPSON’S memories of touring the United States with her soon-to-be ex-husband Richard are filtered through an alcoholic haze and a skewed sense of delight. ...
Joe Boyd: "Our own little Motown"
Interview by Mark Cooper, Q, June 1987
In the late '60s, Joe Boyd helped create a peculiarly English form of folk-psychedelia, producing albums for Fairport Convention, The Incredible String Band and Nick ...
Interview by Nick Coleman, Independent on Sunday, 2 September 2007
Linda and Richard Thompson's marriage was fiery – so much so that Nick Hornby began a script about the legendary folk rockers. Here, on the ...
Richard and Linda Thompson: Keeping Up with the Thompsons
Interview by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, October 2009
Once flippantly but affectionately called "the Sonny & Cher of the folk world", Richard & Linda Thompson are worshipped as living legends, a jewel in ...
The Family Business: Richard Thompson and Relatives
Retrospective and Interview by Larry Jaffee, Audiophile Review, April 2010
Sept. 2011 note: I spent 18 months working on this piece. Richard was the easiest to get hold of. When I shared this tidbit with ...
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