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class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard Thompson (musician)</span></h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. 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href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Thompson_(hudebn%C3%ADk)" title="Richard Thompson (hudebník) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Richard Thompson (hudebník)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Thompson_(Musiker)" title="Richard Thompson (Musiker) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Richard Thompson (Musiker)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Thompson_(m%C3%BAsico)" title="Richard Thompson (músico) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Richard Thompson (músico)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Thompson" title="Richard Thompson – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Richard Thompson" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A6%AC%EC%B2%98%EB%93%9C_%ED%86%B0%EC%8A%A8" title="리처드 톰슨 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="리처드 톰슨" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Thompson_(musicista)" title="Richard Thompson (musicista) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Richard Thompson (musicista)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" 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125%;"><div class="fn">Richard Thompson</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-size: 78%; font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Order of the British Empire">OBE</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Richard_Thompson_-_6-21-07_-_Photo_by_Anthony_Pepitone.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Thompson performing in 2007"><img alt="Thompson performing in 2007" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Richard_Thompson_-_6-21-07_-_Photo_by_Anthony_Pepitone.jpg/220px-Richard_Thompson_-_6-21-07_-_Photo_by_Anthony_Pepitone.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Richard_Thompson_-_6-21-07_-_Photo_by_Anthony_Pepitone.jpg/330px-Richard_Thompson_-_6-21-07_-_Photo_by_Anthony_Pepitone.jpg 1.5x, 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class="infobox-data note"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Vocals</li><li>guitar</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Years active</span></th><td class="infobox-data">1967–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Labels</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Island_Records" title="Island Records">Island</a></li><li>Elixir</li><li><a href="/wiki/Hannibal_Records" title="Hannibal Records">Hannibal</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Polydor_Records" title="Polydor Records">Polydor</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Capitol_Records" title="Capitol Records">Capitol</a></li><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cooking_Vinyl" title="Cooking Vinyl">Cooking Vinyl</a></span></li><li><a href="/wiki/Proper_Records" title="Proper Records">Proper</a></li><li>Beeswing</li><li><a href="/wiki/New_West_Records" title="New West Records">New West</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Member of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Family_(Thompson_album)" title="Family (Thompson album)">Thompson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Formerly of</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fairport_Convention" title="Fairport Convention">Fairport Convention</a></li><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/The_Bunch" title="The Bunch">The Bunch</a></span></li><li>The GP's</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Spouses</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><style 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style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1985; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 2019)<wbr /></div><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Zara Phillips</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 2021)<wbr /></div><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de"></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://richardthompson-music.com">richardthompson-music<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Family</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Teddy_Thompson" title="Teddy Thompson">Teddy Thompson</a> (son)<br /><a href="/wiki/Kamila_Thompson" title="Kamila Thompson">Kamila Thompson</a> (daughter)<br /><a href="/wiki/Zak_Hobbs" title="Zak Hobbs">Zak Hobbs</a> (grandson)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> <p><b>Richard Thompson</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Officer_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the Order of the British Empire">OBE</a></span></span> (born 3 April 1949) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist.<sup id="cite_ref-WP_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WP-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Thompson first gained prominence in the late 1960s as the lead guitarist and songwriter for the folk rock group <a href="/wiki/Fairport_Convention" title="Fairport Convention">Fairport Convention</a>, which he had co-founded in 1967. After departing the group in 1971, Thompson released his debut solo album <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_the_Human_Fly" title="Henry the Human Fly">Henry the Human Fly</a></i> in 1972. The next year, he formed a duo with his wife <a href="/wiki/Linda_Thompson_(singer)" title="Linda Thompson (singer)">Linda Thompson</a>, which produced six albums, including the critically acclaimed <i><a href="/wiki/I_Want_to_See_the_Bright_Lights_Tonight" title="I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight">I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight</a></i> (1974) and <i><a href="/wiki/Shoot_Out_the_Lights" title="Shoot Out the Lights">Shoot Out the Lights</a></i> (1982). After the dissolution of the duo, Thompson revived his solo career with the release of <i><a href="/wiki/Hand_of_Kindness" title="Hand of Kindness">Hand of Kindness</a></i> in 1983. He has released eighteen solo studio albums. Three of his albums—<i><a href="/wiki/Rumor_and_Sigh" title="Rumor and Sigh">Rumor and Sigh</a></i> (1991), <i><a href="/wiki/You%3F_Me%3F_Us%3F" title="You? Me? Us?">You? Me? Us?</a></i> (1996), and <i><a href="/wiki/Dream_Attic" title="Dream Attic">Dream Attic</a></i> (2010)—have been nominated for <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Award">Grammy Awards</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while <i><a href="/wiki/Still_(Richard_Thompson_album)" title="Still (Richard Thompson album)">Still</a></i> (2015) was his first UK Top Ten album. He continues to write and record new material and has frequently performed at venues throughout the world, although the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a> forced him to suspend his touring. </p><p>Music critic <a href="/wiki/Neil_McCormick" title="Neil McCormick">Neil McCormick</a> described Thompson as "a versatile <a href="/wiki/Virtuoso" title="Virtuoso">virtuoso</a> guitarist and a sharp observational singer-songwriter whose work burns with intelligence and dark emotion".<sup id="cite_ref-mccormick_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mccormick-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His songwriting has earned him an <a href="/wiki/Ivor_Novello_Awards" title="Ivor Novello Awards">Ivor Novello Award</a><sup id="cite_ref-WebSiteBio_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WebSiteBio-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and, in 2006, a lifetime achievement award from BBC Radio.<sup id="cite_ref-WebSiteBio_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WebSiteBio-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His 1991 song "<a href="/wiki/1952_Vincent_Black_Lightning" title="1952 Vincent Black Lightning">1952 Vincent Black Lightning</a>" was included in <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i> magazine's "All-TIME 100 Songs" list of the best English-language musical compositions released between 1923 and 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thompson was appointed <a href="/wiki/Officer_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the Order of the British Empire">Officer of the Order of the British Empire</a> (OBE) in the <a href="/wiki/2011_New_Year_Honours" title="2011 New Year Honours">2011 New Year Honours</a> for services to music.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many varied musicians have recorded Thompson's compositions.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His memoir, <i>Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice, 1967–1975</i>, was published in 2021. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career_(1949_to_1972)"><span id="Early_life_and_career_.281949_to_1972.29"></span>Early life and career (1949 to 1972)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Thompson_(musician)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career (1949 to 1972)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Richard Thompson was born at 23 Ladbroke Crescent (off <a href="/wiki/Ladbroke_Grove" title="Ladbroke Grove">Ladbroke Grove</a>), <a href="/wiki/Notting_Hill" title="Notting Hill">Notting Hill</a>, West London, England.<sup id="cite_ref-bees_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bees-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father, a Scot, was a <a href="/wiki/Scotland_Yard" title="Scotland Yard">Scotland Yard</a> detective and an amateur guitar player; several other family members had played music professionally. He was the younger brother, by five years, of sister Perri, who became a fashion designer.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While attending <a href="/wiki/William_Ellis_School" title="William Ellis School">William Ellis School</a> in <a href="/wiki/Highgate" title="Highgate">Highgate</a>, he formed his first band, Emil and the Detectives (named after <a href="/wiki/Emil_and_the_Detectives" title="Emil and the Detectives">a book and a movie by the same title</a>), with classmate <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Cornwell" title="Hugh Cornwell">Hugh Cornwell</a>, later lead singer and guitarist of <a href="/wiki/The_Stranglers" title="The Stranglers">the Stranglers</a>, on bass guitar. When he was a teenager Thompson moved with his family to <a href="/wiki/Whetstone,_London" title="Whetstone, London">Whetstone</a>, near the end of the underground's <a href="/wiki/Northern_line" title="Northern line">Northern line</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-bees_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bees-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Interviewed in 2003, Thompson said: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Listening to <a href="/wiki/Buddy_Holly" title="Buddy Holly">Buddy Holly</a> in 1956 was the point at which I wanted to pick up a guitar, although I didn't actually manage to do that until 1960 ... I played <a href="/wiki/The_Shadows" title="The Shadows">Shadows</a> songs in school bands until I started hanging around with the guys that became Fairport Convention, and we would play <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Phil_Ochs" title="Phil Ochs">Phil Ochs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard_Fari%C3%B1a" title="Richard Fariña">Richard Fariña</a> ... the American singer-songwriters. We would go to Dylan's publisher and ask for songs that hadn't been recorded. We were interested in lyrics, and we were pretty idealistic.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Like so many musicians of his generation, Thompson was exposed to and embraced <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">rock and roll</a> music at an early age, and he was also exposed to his father's <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Traditional_Scottish_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Traditional Scottish music">traditional Scottish music</a> record collection.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries199716–18_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries199716–18-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father had seen <a href="/wiki/Django_Reinhardt" title="Django Reinhardt">Django Reinhardt</a> play in <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a> in the 1930s and played guitar himself. He was later described by his son as "a bad amateur player ... with three chords, though, unfortunately, not C, F and G."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All these musical genres were to colour Thompson's playing in the years to come. </p><p>American producer <a href="/wiki/Joe_Boyd" title="Joe Boyd">Joe Boyd</a> said: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>He can imitate almost any style, and often does, but is instantly identifiable. In his playing you can hear the evocation of the Scottish piper's drone and the melody of the chanter as well as echoes of <a href="/wiki/Barney_Kessel" title="Barney Kessel">Barney Kessel</a>'s and <a href="/wiki/James_Burton" title="James Burton">James Burton</a>'s guitars and <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Lee_Lewis" title="Jerry Lee Lewis">Jerry Lee Lewis</a>'s piano. But no blues clichés.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBoyd2005167_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBoyd2005167-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>At the age of 18 Thompson co-founded folk rock group <a href="/wiki/Fairport_Convention" title="Fairport Convention">Fairport Convention</a>. Largely on the strength of Thompson's playing, Boyd took them under his wing and signed them to his Witchseason production and management company.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries199744_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries199744-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBoyd2005166_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBoyd2005166-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Boyd said: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>And there was this group of very nice <a href="/wiki/Muswell_Hill" title="Muswell Hill">Muswell Hill</a> grammar school boys and a girl playing American music. <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Cohen" title="Leonard Cohen">Leonard Cohen</a> songs, and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Fari%C3%B1a" title="Richard Fariña">Richard Fariña</a> songs, and <a href="/wiki/Bob_Dylan" title="Bob Dylan">Bob Dylan</a> songs, all being done in a kind of West-Coasty rock style. And then came the guitar solo, and Richard just played the most amazing solo. He played a solo which quotes from <a href="/wiki/Django_Reinhardt" title="Django Reinhardt">Django</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Christian" title="Charlie Christian">Charlie Christian</a>, you know, an incredibly sophisticated little solo. And that really amazed me, the breadth of his sophistication... and so, you know, at the end of the gig I was in the dressing room saying 'would you guys like to make a record?'<sup id="cite_ref-SolitaryLife_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SolitaryLife-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Shortly thereafter Thompson, already acquiring a reputation as an outstanding guitar player, started writing songs seriously. This seems to have been out of necessity as Fairport Convention was at first essentially a <a href="/wiki/Cover_band" title="Cover band">cover band</a>. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I remember saying to Ashley [<a href="/wiki/Ashley_Hutchings" title="Ashley Hutchings">Hutchings</a>, bassist] after a gig, that I was kind of embarrassed about doing the material we were doing, because it seemed that we should have outgrown doing covers – even though it was only 1967 – it somehow wasn't good enough and other bands were writing their own stuff and we should too. I remember being angry and saying to Ashley this isn't good enough, we've got to get some original material... and stuff started to trickle through.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries199750–51_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries199750–51-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>By early 1969, when Fairport's second album <i><a href="/wiki/What_We_Did_on_Our_Holidays" title="What We Did on Our Holidays">What We Did on Our Holidays</a></i> was recorded and released, Thompson was starting to emerge as a songwriter of distinction. As Fairport's lineup and their sound evolved, Thompson continued to grow in stature as a player and as a songwriter with compositions like "<a href="/wiki/Meet_on_the_Ledge" title="Meet on the Ledge">Meet on the Ledge</a>". </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:FairportConvention2Kralingen1970.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/FairportConvention2Kralingen1970.jpg/220px-FairportConvention2Kralingen1970.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/FairportConvention2Kralingen1970.jpg/330px-FairportConvention2Kralingen1970.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/FairportConvention2Kralingen1970.jpg/440px-FairportConvention2Kralingen1970.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3509" data-file-height="2330" /></a><figcaption>Richard Thompson (<a href="/wiki/Holland_Pop_Festival" title="Holland Pop Festival">Kralingen 1970</a>, with Fairport Convention) </figcaption></figure> <p>On 12 May 1969, between the recording and release of their next album <i><a href="/wiki/Unhalfbricking" title="Unhalfbricking">Unhalfbricking</a></i>, Fairport's van crashed on the <a href="/wiki/M1_motorway" title="M1 motorway">M1 motorway</a> on the way home from a gig at <a href="/wiki/Mothers_(music_venue)" title="Mothers (music venue)">Mothers</a>, a club in <a href="/wiki/Birmingham" title="Birmingham">Birmingham</a>. Drummer <a href="/wiki/Martin_Lamble" title="Martin Lamble">Martin Lamble</a>, aged 19, and Thompson's girlfriend Jeannie Franklyn were killed.<sup id="cite_ref-SolitaryLife_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SolitaryLife-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NME_Rock_'N'_Roll_Years_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NME_Rock_'N'_Roll_Years-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The rest of the band suffered injuries of varying severity.<sup id="cite_ref-Sweers_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sweers-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later in 1969, Fairport re-grouped with a new drummer, <a href="/wiki/Dave_Mattacks" title="Dave Mattacks">Dave Mattacks</a>, and also invited the well known fiddle player, <a href="/wiki/Dave_Swarbrick" title="Dave Swarbrick">Dave Swarbrick</a>, to join. Thompson and Swarbrick worked together to create songs such as "Crazy Man Michael" from the band's seminal 1969 folk-rock album <i><a href="/wiki/Liege_%26_Lief" title="Liege & Lief">Liege & Lief</a></i> and "Sloth" from its 1970 follow-up <i><a href="/wiki/Full_House_(Fairport_Convention_album)" title="Full House (Fairport Convention album)">Full House</a></i>. </p><p>In January 1971, Thompson announced that he was leaving Fairport Convention. His decision was instinctive, rather than a calculated career move: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I left Fairport as a gut reaction and didn't really know what I was doing, except writing. I was writing stuff and it seemed interesting and I thought it would be fun to make a record. And at the same time—70–71—I was doing a lot of <a href="/wiki/Session_musician" title="Session musician">session</a> work as a way of avoiding any serious ideas about a career.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997123–124_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997123–124-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p></blockquote> <p>In April 1972, he released his first solo album <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_the_Human_Fly" title="Henry the Human Fly">Henry the Human Fly</a></i>, recording with <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Denny" title="Sandy Denny">Sandy Denny</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pat_Donaldson" class="mw-redirect" title="Pat Donaldson">Pat Donaldson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sue_Draheim" title="Sue Draheim">Sue Draheim</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Kirkpatrick_(musician)" title="John Kirkpatrick (musician)">John Kirkpatrick</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barry_Dransfield" title="Barry Dransfield">Barry Dransfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ashley_Hutchings" title="Ashley Hutchings">Ashley Hutchings</a>, <a href="/wiki/Linda_Thompson_(singer)" title="Linda Thompson (singer)">Linda Peters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Andy_Roberts_(musician)" title="Andy Roberts (musician)">Andy Roberts</a>, and others.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The album sold poorly and was panned by the press, especially the influential <i><a href="/wiki/Melody_Maker" title="Melody Maker">Melody Maker</a></i> magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997135_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997135-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With time <i>Henry</i> has come to be more highly regarded, but at the time the critics' response hurt both Thompson and his career.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997135_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997135-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1970s:_Richard_and_Linda_Thompson">1970s: Richard and Linda Thompson</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Thompson_(musician)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 1970s: Richard and Linda Thompson"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By the 1970s, Thompson had begun a relationship with the singer <a href="/wiki/Linda_Thompson_(singer)" title="Linda Thompson (singer)">Linda Peters</a>, who had sung on <i>Henry the Human Fly</i>. In October 1972 the couple were married at <a href="/wiki/Hampstead_Town_Hall" title="Hampstead Town Hall">Hampstead Town Hall</a> and honeymooned in <a href="/wiki/Corsica" title="Corsica">Corsica</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thompson, with Linda now effectively his front woman, regrouped for his next album and the next phase of his career.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The first Richard and <a href="/wiki/Linda_Thompson_(singer)" title="Linda Thompson (singer)">Linda Thompson</a> album, <i><a href="/wiki/I_Want_to_See_the_Bright_Lights_Tonight" title="I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight">I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight</a></i>, was recorded in May 1973 in short time and on a small budget. Largely because of the petrol shortage in Britain and its impact on the availability of vinyl for records, <i>Bright Lights</i> was held back by <a href="/wiki/Island_Records" title="Island Records">Island Records</a> for nearly a year before being released in April 1974. The album was well received by critics, though sales were less than stellar. </p><p>Thompson's lyrics expressed a rather dismal world view, and it has been suggested that the bleak subject matter of his songs helped to keep his recordings off the hit parade. A more likely explanation was given by ex-<a href="/wiki/Island_Records" title="Island Records">Island</a> <a href="/wiki/Artist_and_repertoire" class="mw-redirect" title="Artist and repertoire">A&R</a> man Richard Williams in the 2003 <a href="/wiki/BBC_TV" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC TV">BBC TV</a> documentary <i>Solitary Life</i>: Thompson was just not interested in fame and its trappings.<sup id="cite_ref-SolitaryLife_21-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SolitaryLife-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Thompsons recorded two more albums—<i><a href="/wiki/Hokey_Pokey_(album)" title="Hokey Pokey (album)">Hokey Pokey</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Pour_Down_Like_Silver" title="Pour Down Like Silver">Pour Down Like Silver</a></i>, both released in 1975—before Richard Thompson decided to leave the music business. The couple moved to a <a href="/wiki/Abdalqadir_as-Sufi" title="Abdalqadir as-Sufi">Sufi community</a> in <a href="/wiki/East_Anglia" title="East Anglia">East Anglia</a>. </p><p>It was not apparent from their records at first, but the Thompsons had embraced an esoteric <a href="/wiki/Sufi" class="mw-redirect" title="Sufi">Sufi</a> strand of <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> in early 1974.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997151–154_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997151–154-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight</i> was recorded before this conversion, but released some time afterwards. The songs for the second Richard and Linda album, <i>Hokey Pokey</i>, were similarly written some time ahead of the album's recording and eventual release. It was <i>Pour Down Like Silver</i>, with its cover photo of a turbaned Richard Thompson, that tipped the public off to the Thompsons' growing preoccupation with their faith. </p><p>The trilogy of albums released before and after his sojourn in the commune was heavily influenced by Thompson's beliefs and by Sufi scripture, but in the long run his religious beliefs have not influenced his work in an obvious manner. The outlook expressed in his songs, his musical style, the subjects addressed by his lyrics have not shown any fundamental change.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith200421_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith200421-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He remains a committed <a href="/wiki/Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Muslim">Muslim</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SolitaryLife_21-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SolitaryLife-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Thompson started to re-engage with the world of professional music in 1977. He played on an album by <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Denny" title="Sandy Denny">Sandy Denny</a>, and had undertaken a short tour and started recording with a group of musicians who were also Sufis. Thompson asked <a href="/wiki/Joe_Boyd" title="Joe Boyd">Joe Boyd</a> to produce these sessions, and two days were spent on the initial recordings. Boyd recalls that the sessions were not a success: "It was really, I felt, very poor. I didn't have much confidence in the musicians that he was working with. The atmosphere was very strange and it just didn't seem to work."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997175_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997175-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At about this time the Thompsons and their family moved out of the commune and back to their old home in <a href="/wiki/Hampstead" title="Hampstead">Hampstead</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997181_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997181-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Boyd had already invited Richard Thompson to play on <a href="/wiki/Julie_Covington" title="Julie Covington">Julie Covington</a>'s debut album. With spare studio time and the American <a href="/wiki/Session_musician" title="Session musician">session musicians</a> hired to work on the Covington album available, the Thompsons went back into the studio to record under their own name for the first time in three years. </p><p>The resulting album, <i><a href="/wiki/First_Light_(Richard_and_Linda_Thompson_album)" title="First Light (Richard and Linda Thompson album)">First Light</a></i>, was warmly received by critics<sup id="cite_ref-SolitaryLife_21-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SolitaryLife-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but did not sell particularly well. Neither did its follow up, 1979's harder-edged and more cynical <i><a href="/wiki/Sunnyvista" title="Sunnyvista">Sunnyvista</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/Chrysalis_Records" title="Chrysalis Records">Chrysalis Records</a> did not take up their option to renew the contract, and the Thompsons found themselves without one. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1980s">1980s</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Thompson_(musician)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 1980s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Richard_Thompson_on_stage_at_Leeds_Folk_Festival,_UK,_1982_(photograph_by_Tony_Rees).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Richard_Thompson_on_stage_at_Leeds_Folk_Festival%2C_UK%2C_1982_%28photograph_by_Tony_Rees%29.jpg/220px-Richard_Thompson_on_stage_at_Leeds_Folk_Festival%2C_UK%2C_1982_%28photograph_by_Tony_Rees%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Richard_Thompson_on_stage_at_Leeds_Folk_Festival%2C_UK%2C_1982_%28photograph_by_Tony_Rees%29.jpg/330px-Richard_Thompson_on_stage_at_Leeds_Folk_Festival%2C_UK%2C_1982_%28photograph_by_Tony_Rees%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Richard_Thompson_on_stage_at_Leeds_Folk_Festival%2C_UK%2C_1982_%28photograph_by_Tony_Rees%29.jpg/440px-Richard_Thompson_on_stage_at_Leeds_Folk_Festival%2C_UK%2C_1982_%28photograph_by_Tony_Rees%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1458" data-file-height="1155" /></a><figcaption>Thompson performing solo on stage at the <a href="/wiki/Reading_and_Leeds_Festivals" title="Reading and Leeds Festivals">Leeds Folk Festival</a>, 1982</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Gerry_Rafferty" title="Gerry Rafferty">Gerry Rafferty</a> had booked the Thompsons as the support act for his 1980 tour, and had also used Richard as a session player on his <i><a href="/wiki/Night_Owl_(album)" title="Night Owl (album)">Night Owl</a></i> album. Rafferty offered to finance the recording of a new Richard and Linda Thompson album which he would then use to secure a contract for the Thompsons.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997194_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997194-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Richard Thompson fell out with Rafferty during this project and was not happy with the finished product.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997196_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997196-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, Rafferty kept his side of the bargain and presented the album to several record companies – none of which expressed interest in signing the Thompsons. Rafferty did not recover his investment.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997196–197_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997196–197-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>About a year later, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Boyd" title="Joe Boyd">Joe Boyd</a> signed the Thompsons to his small <a href="/wiki/Hannibal_Records" title="Hannibal Records">Hannibal</a> label and a new album was recorded. <i><a href="/wiki/Shoot_Out_the_Lights" title="Shoot Out the Lights">Shoot Out the Lights</a></i> included new recordings of many of the songs recorded in 1980. Linda Thompson was pregnant at the time of the recording, so the album's release was delayed until they could tour behind the album. Breathing problems arising from her pregnancy also meant that Linda could not sing the lead part on some of these songs as she had done on demo tapes and the Rafferty-produced recordings. </p><p>As an interim measure, Richard Thompson agreed to a short (5-day), low-key solo tour of the U.S. This tour was set up by Nancy Covey, then concert director for McCabe's Guitar Shop in <a href="/wiki/Santa_Monica,_California" title="Santa Monica, California">Santa Monica</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997207_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997207-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Covey, who had been in the UK in 1981 trying to sign Thompson to play at McCabe's, arranged for Thompson well-received 5 and 6 December shows. It was during this tour that Thompson and Covey developed an intimate relationship, and during that month, Richard and Linda Thompson separated.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997210–211_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997210–211-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Upon its release in 1982, <i>Shoot Out the Lights</i> was lauded by critics and sold quite well – especially in the U.S.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997207–208_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997207–208-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TimeSOTL_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TimeSOTL-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Thompsons, now a couple for professional purposes only, toured the United States in support of the album, their only American tour together. Both the album and their live shows were well received by the American media,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997207–208_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997207–208-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TimeSOTL_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TimeSOTL-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>Shoot Out the Lights</i> effectively relaunched their career – just as their marriage was falling apart. The performances, with a backing band including both <a href="/wiki/Simon_Nicol" title="Simon Nicol">Simon Nicol</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dave_Mattacks" title="Dave Mattacks">Dave Mattacks</a> of Fairport Convention, were seen as strong,<sup id="cite_ref-TimeSOTL_40-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TimeSOTL-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997213–213_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997213–213-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the tension between Richard and Linda was all too obvious. For this reason, the Thompsons' fans often refer to the <i>Shoot Out the Lights</i> tour as "The Tour from Hell".<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon returning home, Richard and Linda went their separate ways. </p><p>Richard Thompson continued recording as a solo artist. His 1983 album <i><a href="/wiki/Hand_of_Kindness" title="Hand of Kindness">Hand of Kindness</a></i> saw him working with <a href="/wiki/Joe_Boyd" title="Joe Boyd">Boyd</a> again, but with a revised backing band and a more extroverted and up-tempo song selection. </p><p>With his separation from Linda finalized, Richard Thompson began to commute between twin bases in London and Los Angeles and to tour regularly in the USA. Encouraged by the success of his solo shows in late 1981 and early 1982, he began to perform solo with increasing frequency and continued to tour with a band. In 1983 and 1984, he toured the US and Europe with the Richard Thompson Big Band, which included two saxophone players in addition to the more usual rhythm section, second guitar and <a href="/wiki/Accordion" title="Accordion">accordion</a>. Set lists included covers of classic rock 'n roll songs and jazz standards such as "<a href="/wiki/Tuxedo_Junction" title="Tuxedo Junction">Tuxedo Junction</a>". </p><p>In 1985, Thompson signed with <a href="/wiki/PolyGram" title="PolyGram">PolyGram</a> and received a sizeable advance.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997229_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997229-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He and Nancy Covey married at an alcohol-free wedding that included a who's who of roots-music performers who Covey knew well from McCabe's and the Los Angeles music scene, and had introduced to Thompson. After their wedding, Thompson moved his home and working base to California. As part of the settlement that allowed Thompson to leave Boyd's Hannibal label for Polygram, the live album <i><a href="/wiki/Small_Town_Romance" title="Small Town Romance">Small Town Romance</a></i> was released. This comprised recordings made during Thompson's solo shows in the US in late 1981 and early 1982. <i><a href="/wiki/Across_a_Crowded_Room" title="Across a Crowded Room">Across a Crowded Room</a></i> (1985) was his last album to be recorded in England and the last to have <a href="/wiki/Joe_Boyd" title="Joe Boyd">Boyd</a> as producer.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997242–244_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997242–244-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2004280_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2004280-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thompson put together a new look backing band for the tour to promote this album, and some shows were filmed for a live video release (see <a href="/wiki/Richard_Thompson_discography" title="Richard Thompson discography">Richard Thompson discography</a>). </p><p>In 1986, he released <i><a href="/wiki/Daring_Adventures" title="Daring Adventures">Daring Adventures</a></i>, which was recorded in Los Angeles and produced by <a href="/wiki/Mitchell_Froom" title="Mitchell Froom">Mitchell Froom</a>. <i>Daring Adventures</i>, with a rich sound, markedly different production and use of American <a href="/wiki/Session_musician" title="Session musician">session players</a>, was perceived by some as evidence of Thompson's increasing "Americanisation". Perhaps more significantly, the album continued the trend, begun with <i>Across A Crowded Room,</i> of Thompson's songs moving away from the seemingly personal material and towards the character sketches and narratives for which he has since become famous. Froom and PolyGram had plans to target college and the growing "alternative" markets with <i>Daring Adventures</i>. Sales improved, but not substantially. Polygram declined an option to renew the contract.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997253_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumphries1997253-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thompson's management negotiated a new deal with <a href="/wiki/Capitol_Records" title="Capitol Records">Capitol Records</a>. </p><p>In 1985, Fairport Convention reformed and recorded the album <i><a href="/wiki/Gladys%27_Leap" title="Gladys' Leap">Gladys' Leap</a></i>. Thompson did not rejoin Fairport, but he did contribute a song to the project and played guitar on another track on the album. </p><p>1988 saw the release of Thompson's first album for Capitol, <i><a href="/wiki/Amnesia_(Richard_Thompson_album)" title="Amnesia (Richard Thompson album)">Amnesia</a></i>. Froom was retained as producer, and once again the album was recorded in Los Angeles with many of the same players that Froom had called upon for the <i>Daring Adventures</i> sessions. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1990s">1990s</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Thompson_(musician)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1990s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Thompson contributed music to <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> Northwest's documentary <i>Hard Cash</i> and appears on the eponymous accompanying album issued by <a href="/wiki/Topic_Records" title="Topic Records">Topic</a>. A track from the album, <i>Time To Ring Some Changes</i> is included in the 2009 Topic Records 70-year anniversary boxed set <i><a href="/wiki/Three_Score_and_Ten" title="Three Score and Ten">Three Score and Ten</a></i> as track thirteen on the sixth CD. </p><p>Thompson appears on <a href="/wiki/Willie_Nile" title="Willie Nile">Willie Nile</a>'s 1991 <i><a href="/wiki/Places_I_Have_Never_Been" title="Places I Have Never Been">Places I Have Never Been</a></i> album. </p><p>In 1991, Thompson recorded <i><a href="/wiki/Rumor_and_Sigh" title="Rumor and Sigh">Rumor and Sigh</a></i>, his second album for Capitol. Once again Froom produced. This album, particularly the acoustic guitar ballad "<a href="/wiki/1952_Vincent_Black_Lightning" title="1952 Vincent Black Lightning">1952 Vincent Black Lightning</a>", was hailed by critics and fans alike and greatly advanced Thompson's reputation as a leading traditional-style guitarist.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Rumor and Sigh</i> was nominated for a <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Award">Grammy</a> and sold well. However, a shake-up at Capitol saw Hale Milgrim (Thompson's champion and fan within the boardroom) replaced by Garry Gersh. Thus, Thompson's next album <i><a href="/wiki/Mirror_Blue" title="Mirror Blue">Mirror Blue</a></i> was held back for almost a year before being released. </p><p>Thompson was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Orville_H._Gibson" class="mw-redirect" title="Orville H. Gibson">Orville H. Gibson</a> Award for best acoustic guitar player in 1997.<sup id="cite_ref-WebSiteBio_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WebSiteBio-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1992, he performed with <a href="/wiki/David_Byrne" title="David Byrne">David Byrne</a>. Their joint acoustic concert at St. Ann & The Holy Trinity in <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Heights" title="Brooklyn Heights">Brooklyn Heights</a>, New York on 24 March, produced the album <i>An Acoustic Evening</i>, which was released the same year.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Mirror Blue</i> was released in 1994, to often negative reviews sparked by the production decisions that Thompson and Froom took. Thompson took to the road to promote the album. He was joined by drummer <a href="/wiki/Dave_Mattacks" title="Dave Mattacks">Dave Mattacks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Danny_Thompson" title="Danny Thompson">Danny Thompson</a> (no relation) on double bass, and <a href="/wiki/Pete_Zorn" title="Pete Zorn">Pete Zorn</a> on acoustic guitar, backing vocals, <a href="/wiki/Mandolin" title="Mandolin">mandolin</a> and various wind instruments. This line-up toured with Thompson the following two years. </p><p>Thompson continued recording for <a href="/wiki/Capitol_Records" title="Capitol Records">Capitol</a> until 1999, when <i><a href="/wiki/Mock_Tudor_(album)" title="Mock Tudor (album)">Mock Tudor</a></i> was recorded and released. His deal with Capitol was modified so that he could release and directly market limited-quantity, live recorded, not-for-retail albums. The first of these was <i><a href="/wiki/Live_at_Crawley" title="Live at Crawley">Live at Crawley</a></i>, released in 1995. </p><p>In 1994 the tribute album <i>Beat the Retreat</i> was issued, with Thompson's songs performed by such artists as <a href="/wiki/R.E.M." title="R.E.M.">R.E.M.</a>, <a href="/wiki/June_Tabor" title="June Tabor">June Tabor</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Byrne" title="David Byrne">David Byrne</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="2000s">2000s</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Thompson_(musician)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 2000s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Richard_Thompson_-_Cambridge_2006_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Richard_Thompson_-_Cambridge_2006_1.jpg/170px-Richard_Thompson_-_Cambridge_2006_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Richard_Thompson_-_Cambridge_2006_1.jpg/255px-Richard_Thompson_-_Cambridge_2006_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Richard_Thompson_-_Cambridge_2006_1.jpg/340px-Richard_Thompson_-_Cambridge_2006_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="1280" /></a><figcaption>Thompson at the <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Folk_Festival" title="Cambridge Folk Festival">Cambridge Folk Festival</a>, 2006</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2001, Thompson declined the option to renew his contract with Capitol. </p><p>Thompson appeared on his ex-wife Linda's studio album <i>Fashionably Late</i> on the song "Dear Mary".<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was the first time the two had recorded together since <i>Shoot Out the Lights</i>. </p><p>In 2003, the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> produced a documentary about Thompson's long musical career, entitled <i>Solitary Life</i>, directed by Paul Bernays and narrated by <a href="/wiki/John_Peel" title="John Peel">John Peel</a>. It featured interviews with Thompson from his home in California and contributions from <a href="/wiki/Billy_Connolly" title="Billy Connolly">Billy Connolly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Raitt" title="Bonnie Raitt">Bonnie Raitt</a>, ex-wife <a href="/wiki/Linda_Thompson_(singer)" title="Linda Thompson (singer)">Linda Thompson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harry_Shearer" title="Harry Shearer">Harry Shearer</a> and Thompson's then wife Nancy Covey. The programme was re-broadcast by <a href="/wiki/BBC_Four" title="BBC Four">BBC Four</a> in September 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The move away from big labels and big budgets paradoxically brought a bigger marketing push and healthier sales. Thompson's first two self-funded releases, 2003's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Old_Kit_Bag" title="The Old Kit Bag">The Old Kit Bag</a></i> and 2005's <i><a href="/wiki/Front_Parlour_Ballads" title="Front Parlour Ballads">Front Parlour Ballads</a></i>, did well in the <a href="/wiki/Indie_(music)" class="mw-redirect" title="Indie (music)">indie</a> charts on both sides of the Atlantic.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2011)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In May 2007 Thompson released <i><a href="/wiki/Sweet_Warrior" title="Sweet Warrior">Sweet Warrior</a></i>. The album was licensed to different labels in different territories: <a href="/wiki/Shout!_Factory" class="mw-redirect" title="Shout! Factory">Shout! Factory</a> in the US, <a href="/wiki/P-Vine_Records" title="P-Vine Records">P-Vine</a> in Japan, Planet Records in Australia, and <a href="/wiki/Proper_Records" title="Proper Records">Proper Records</a> in the UK and Europe. In August of the same year <a href="/wiki/Island_Records" title="Island Records">Island</a> released a live Richard and Linda Thompson album, compiled from recordings made during the November 1975 tour to promote the <i><a href="/wiki/Pour_Down_Like_Silver" title="Pour Down Like Silver">Pour Down Like Silver</a></i> album. </p><p>Thompson continued releasing "official bootlegs" on his boutique label as an additional source of revenue – all live recordings. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="2010s">2010s</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Thompson_(musician)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 2010s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Richard_Thompson_Electric_Trio,_Towersey_2018.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Richard_Thompson_Electric_Trio%2C_Towersey_2018.jpg/250px-Richard_Thompson_Electric_Trio%2C_Towersey_2018.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Richard_Thompson_Electric_Trio%2C_Towersey_2018.jpg/375px-Richard_Thompson_Electric_Trio%2C_Towersey_2018.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Richard_Thompson_Electric_Trio%2C_Towersey_2018.jpg/500px-Richard_Thompson_Electric_Trio%2C_Towersey_2018.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5011" data-file-height="2886" /></a><figcaption>The Richard Thompson Electric Trio (with Michael Jerome and Taras Prodaniuk) at <a href="/wiki/Towersey_Festival" title="Towersey Festival">Towersey Festival</a>, 2018</figcaption></figure> <p>In early 2010, Thompson assembled a band and did a string of shows showcasing new material. The aim was to record the new material in a live setting. The recording and touring band consisted of Thompson, Pete Zorn, (acoustic guitar, flute, saxophone, mandolin, vocals); <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jerome" title="Michael Jerome">Michael Jerome</a> (drums, vocals), <a href="/w/index.php?title=Taras_Prodaniuk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Taras Prodaniuk (page does not exist)">Taras Prodaniuk</a>, (bass guitar, vocals); and <a href="/wiki/Joel_Zifkin" title="Joel Zifkin">Joel Zifkin</a>, (<a href="/wiki/Electric_violin" title="Electric violin">electric violin</a>, mandolin, vocals). The resulting album <i><a href="/wiki/Dream_Attic" title="Dream Attic">Dream Attic</a></i>, released in August the same year, was nominated for a <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Contemporary_Folk_Album" title="Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album">Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 10 June 2010, Thompson was awarded the <i><a href="/wiki/Mojo_(magazine)" title="Mojo (magazine)">Mojo</a></i> Les Paul Award for "Guitar Legend".<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Thompson curated the 2010 <a href="/wiki/Meltdown_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Meltdown Festival">Meltdown Festival</a>. The festival included a tribute to the recently deceased <a href="/wiki/Kate_McGarrigle" title="Kate McGarrigle">Kate McGarrigle</a>, a feature of which was a rare on-stage reunion of Richard and Linda Thompson. He was appointed <a href="/wiki/Officer_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Officer of the Order of the British Empire">Officer of the Order of the British Empire</a> (OBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to music.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 5 July 2011, he was awarded an <a href="/wiki/Honorary_doctorate" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorary doctorate">honorary doctorate</a> by the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Aberdeen" title="University of Aberdeen">University of Aberdeen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-infoserv.abdn.ac.uk_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-infoserv.abdn.ac.uk-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In early 2013, Thompson released <i><a href="/wiki/Electric_(Richard_Thompson_album)" title="Electric (Richard Thompson album)">Electric</a></i>, recorded in Nashville with <a href="/wiki/Buddy_Miller" title="Buddy Miller">Buddy Miller</a> producing. The record enjoyed good reviews and debuted in the UK top 20. Thompson took to the road with a stripped-down "<a href="/wiki/Power_trio" title="Power trio">power trio</a>" band on a multi-month tour on both sides of the Atlantic to promote the new album. Also that year Thompson appeared on his ex-wife Linda's fourth studio album <i>Won't Be Long Now</i>, on the track "Love's for Babies and Fools".<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was the second time the two have recorded together since <i>Shoot Out the Lights</i>. </p><p>In 2014, Thompson released <i><a href="/wiki/Acoustic_Classics" title="Acoustic Classics">Acoustic Classics</a>,</i><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an album featuring acoustic renditions of 14 songs from his back catalogue, on his Beeswing label. The record reached number 16 on the <a href="/wiki/UK_Albums_Chart" title="UK Albums Chart">UK Albums Chart</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thompson appears alongside family members, both blood related and by marriage, on the album <i><a href="/wiki/Family_(Thompson_album)" title="Family (Thompson album)">Family</a></i> (2014) by Thompson (the band being named for all the Thompsons that appear), performing two songs solo and contributing to others as well. The album was produced by son Teddy Thompson and features ex-wife Linda Thompson, <a href="/wiki/The_Rails" title="The Rails">The Rails</a> who are Thompson's daughter <a href="/wiki/Kamila_Thompson" title="Kamila Thompson">Kami Thompson</a> and her husband James Walbourne, as well as other related musicians, including Walbourne's brother and Richard Thompson's son from his second marriage.<sup id="cite_ref-FoRa_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FoRa-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYT_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Thompson released <i><a href="/wiki/Still_(Richard_Thompson_album)" title="Still (Richard Thompson album)">Still</a></i> in June 2015, an album produced by <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Tweedy" title="Jeff Tweedy">Jeff Tweedy</a> of <a href="/wiki/Wilco" title="Wilco">Wilco</a> and recorded in Tweedy's The Loft Studio.<sup id="cite_ref-Aqua_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aqua-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The album reached number 10 in the UK Album chart, his first album to reach the UK top 10.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 2015, he appeared on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Two" title="BBC Two">BBC Two</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Later..._with_Jools_Holland" title="Later... with Jools Holland">Later... with Jools Holland</a></i>, where he performed "All Buttoned Up" and ""She Never Could Resist a Winding Road" from his album <i><a href="/wiki/Still_(Richard_Thompson_album)" title="Still (Richard Thompson album)">Still</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was followed, in 2017, by a second acoustic album <i><a href="/wiki/Acoustic_Classics_II" title="Acoustic Classics II">Acoustic Classics II</a></i> which reached number 24 on the <a href="/wiki/UK_Albums_Chart" title="UK Albums Chart">UK Albums Chart</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i>Acoustic Rarities</i>, an album of new recordings of some of the more obscure songs in the Thompson catalogue, some previously existing only as cover versions.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2018)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Thompson's eighteenth studio album, <i><a href="/wiki/13_Rivers" title="13 Rivers">13 Rivers</a></i>, was released on 14 September 2018. It was written after a period of difficulty for Thompson's family<sup id="cite_ref-aqd_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aqd-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-mojo_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mojo-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with songs that stick "close to a vision of darkness, gloom, and noise".<sup id="cite_ref-pm_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pm-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thompson produced the record himself at <a href="/wiki/Boulevard_Recording" title="Boulevard Recording">Boulevard Recording</a> in Los Angeles.<sup id="cite_ref-13rivers_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13rivers-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 30 September 2019 Thompson played at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Albert_Hall" title="Royal Albert Hall">Royal Albert Hall</a> to celebrate his 70th birthday.<sup id="cite_ref-mccormick_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mccormick-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2019 Thompson was featured in the <a href="/wiki/BBC_Four" title="BBC Four">BBC Four</a> documentary <i>Classic Albums: The Crickets: The 'Chirping' Crickets</i>, explaining the influence that <a href="/wiki/Buddy_Holly" title="Buddy Holly">Buddy Holly</a> had had on him personally, and on the development of rock and roll in general.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="2020s">2020s</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Thompson_(musician)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 2020s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2021 his book <i>Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice, 1967–1975</i> was published by <a href="/wiki/Workman_Publishing_Company" title="Workman Publishing Company">Algonquin Books</a>, mainly a memoir of his life as a musician from 1967 to 1975.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i>Los Angeles Review of Books</i> called it an "absorbing, witty, often deliciously biting read, as all rock memoirs should be".<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Thompson performed on the acoustic stage of the <a href="/wiki/Glastonbury_Festival_2023" title="Glastonbury Festival 2023">Glastonbury Festival</a> in June 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reviewing the set for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>, Keza MacDonald said, "It's just him and a beautiful, bright-sounding acoustic guitar. He plays so well that you can't take your eyes off his picking hand, as you try to figure out how he's making the sound of three guitars come out of one. He is one of the most stunningly gifted guitarists you'll ever see live, and his dextrously fingerpicked mid-song diversions prompt claps and whoops from a crowd that is otherwise quietly reverent."<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2024 Thompson announced a band tour of the U.S. and U.K., with the British leg culminating in a date at London's <a href="/wiki/Royal_Albert_Hall" title="Royal Albert Hall">Royal Albert Hall</a> on 8 June.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Ship_to_Shore_(Richard_Thompson_album)" title="Ship to Shore (Richard Thompson album)">Ship to Shore</a></i> was released that May. Reviewing the concert at the <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Royal_Concert_Hall" title="Glasgow Royal Concert Hall">Glasgow Royal Concert Hall</a> for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i>, Peter Ross awarded the gig four stars and said, "There were flashes of brilliance, however. "<a href="/wiki/Sweet_Warrior" title="Sweet Warrior">Guns Are the Tongues</a>", with <a href="/wiki/Zak_Hobbs" title="Zak Hobbs">Hobbs</a> on mandolin, built over seven minutes to an ecstatic darkness. "<a href="/wiki/Dimming_of_the_Day" title="Dimming of the Day">Dimming of the Day</a>" had a gentle grace. Best of all was "<a href="/wiki/Mirror_Blue" title="Mirror Blue">Beeswing</a>", which Thompson performed alone, fingerpicking an acoustic. Intricate and soulful, it's a song in which his technical ability and poetic voice are held in balance. The brief silence that followed said more than any applause could; we knew we'd heard something exquisite."<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The final night, at the Royal Albert Hall, featured guest artists including <a href="/wiki/Ralph_McTell" title="Ralph McTell">Ralph McTell</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Walbourne" title="James Walbourne">James Walbourne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kami_Thompson" class="mw-redirect" title="Kami Thompson">Kami Thompson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Linda_Thompson_(singer)" title="Linda Thompson (singer)">Linda Thompson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Squeeze_(band)" title="Squeeze (band)">Squeeze</a> and <a href="/wiki/Crowded_House" title="Crowded House">Crowded House</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 9 August Thompson headlined the second night of the annual Cropredy Festival.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2020 the 1969 album <i><a href="/wiki/Dudu_Phukwana_and_the_%22Spears%22" title="Dudu Phukwana and the "Spears"">Dudu Phukwana and the "Spears"</a></i>, the debut album by South African saxophonist <a href="/wiki/Dudu_Pukwana" title="Dudu Pukwana">Dudu Pukwana</a> and his band, produced by <a href="/wiki/Joe_Boyd" title="Joe Boyd">Joe Boyd</a>, was remastered and reissued by Matsuli Music as a double-LP set with nine previously unissued tracks that were recorded in 1969, and which feature a number of guest artists such as Thompson and <a href="/wiki/Simon_Nicol" title="Simon Nicol">Simon Nicol</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2023 Thompson released the instrumental "Lament For Mariupol" as part of the charity compilation album <i>Heal the Sky</i> which aimed to raise funds to help children who were victims of the war in Ukraine.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Side_projects_and_collaborations">Side projects and collaborations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Thompson_(musician)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Side projects and collaborations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In between leaving <a href="/wiki/Fairport_Convention" title="Fairport Convention">Fairport Convention</a> in early 1971 and releasing his debut solo album in 1972, he undertook a large amount of <a href="/wiki/Session_musician" title="Session musician">session</a> work, most notably on albums by <a href="/wiki/John_Martyn" title="John Martyn">John Martyn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Al_Stewart" title="Al Stewart">Al Stewart</a>, <a href="/wiki/Matthews_Southern_Comfort" title="Matthews Southern Comfort">Matthews Southern Comfort</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Denny" title="Sandy Denny">Sandy Denny</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mike_Heron" title="Mike Heron">Mike Heron</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nick_Drake" title="Nick Drake">Nick Drake</a>. </p><p>During the same period, he also worked on two collaborative projects. <i><a href="/wiki/Morris_On" title="Morris On">Morris On</a></i> was recorded with <a href="/wiki/Ashley_Hutchings" title="Ashley Hutchings">Ashley Hutchings</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Kirkpatrick_(musician)" title="John Kirkpatrick (musician)">John Kirkpatrick</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dave_Mattacks" title="Dave Mattacks">Dave Mattacks</a> and Barry Dransfield, and was a collection of English traditional tunes arranged for electric instruments. <i>The Bunch</i> were almost the reverse conceptually – a grouping of English <a href="/wiki/Folk_rock" title="Folk rock">folk rock</a> musicians (including <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Denny" title="Sandy Denny">Sandy Denny</a>, <a href="/wiki/Linda_Thompson_(singer)" title="Linda Thompson (singer)">Linda Peters</a> and members of <a href="/wiki/Fairport_Convention" title="Fairport Convention">Fairport Convention</a>) recording a selection of classic <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">rock and roll</a> tunes. </p><p>Thompson has continued to guest on albums by an array of artists, from <a href="/wiki/Crowded_House" title="Crowded House">Crowded House</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Raitt" title="Bonnie Raitt">Bonnie Raitt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vivian_Stanshall" title="Vivian Stanshall">Vivian Stanshall</a>, to <a href="/wiki/Norma_Waterson" title="Norma Waterson">Norma Waterson</a> and <a href="/wiki/BeauSoleil" title="BeauSoleil">BeauSoleil</a> and folk artists like <a href="/wiki/Loudon_Wainwright_III" title="Loudon Wainwright III">Loudon Wainwright III</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cathal_McConnell" title="Cathal McConnell">Cathal McConnell</a> (of <a href="/wiki/The_Boys_of_the_Lough" title="The Boys of the Lough">The Boys of the Lough</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Bob_Davenport_(singer)" title="Bob Davenport (singer)">Bob Davenport</a>. He has also performed and recorded with <a href="/wiki/Teddy_Thompson" title="Teddy Thompson">Teddy Thompson</a>, his son from his marriage to <a href="/wiki/Linda_Thompson_(singer)" title="Linda Thompson (singer)">Linda Thompson</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Richard_Thompson_and_Dave_Pegg.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Richard_Thompson_and_Dave_Pegg.jpg/220px-Richard_Thompson_and_Dave_Pegg.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Richard_Thompson_and_Dave_Pegg.jpg/330px-Richard_Thompson_and_Dave_Pegg.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Richard_Thompson_and_Dave_Pegg.jpg/440px-Richard_Thompson_and_Dave_Pegg.jpg 2x" data-file-width="753" data-file-height="518" /></a><figcaption>Thompson with Fairport Convention's <a href="/wiki/Dave_Pegg" title="Dave Pegg">Dave Pegg</a> at Cropredy, 2005</figcaption></figure> <p>Since the early 1980s,<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thompson has appeared at <a href="/wiki/Fairport_Convention" title="Fairport Convention">Fairport Convention</a>'s annual <a href="/wiki/Fairport%27s_Cropredy_Convention" title="Fairport's Cropredy Convention">Cropredy Festival</a>, both in his own right and as a participant in sets with current and former Fairport members. These sets are seldom confined to performances of songs out of the Thompson or Fairport Convention canons, and in recent years some surprise offerings have included the soul classic "<a href="/wiki/I_Heard_It_Through_the_Grapevine" title="I Heard It Through the Grapevine">I Heard It Through the Grapevine</a>" (with Thompson backed by the <a href="/wiki/Roy_Wood" title="Roy Wood">Roy Wood</a> Big Band), <a href="/wiki/The_Beatles" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a>' "<a href="/wiki/I%27m_Down" title="I'm Down">I'm Down</a>" and even "<a href="/wiki/The_Lady_Is_a_Tramp" title="The Lady Is a Tramp">The Lady Is a Tramp</a>". </p><p>Thompson has displayed a penchant for the <a href="/wiki/Avant_garde" class="mw-redirect" title="Avant garde">avant garde</a> as well, working with former <a href="/wiki/Pere_Ubu" title="Pere Ubu">Pere Ubu</a> singer <a href="/wiki/David_Thomas_(musician)" title="David Thomas (musician)">David Thomas</a>'s grouping The Pedestrians on two albums in 1981 and 1982, respectively. In the 1980s, he was associated with a loose-fitting group called <a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Palominos" title="The Golden Palominos">The Golden Palominos</a>, who were led by drummer <a href="/wiki/Anton_Fier" title="Anton Fier">Anton Fier</a> and included at times on stage and on record <a href="/wiki/Jack_Bruce" title="Jack Bruce">Jack Bruce</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Stipe" title="Michael Stipe">Michael Stipe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carla_Bley" title="Carla Bley">Carla Bley</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Lydon" title="John Lydon">John Lydon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Laswell" title="Bill Laswell">Bill Laswell</a> and others. He has worked with experimental guitarist <a href="/wiki/Henry_Kaiser_(musician)" title="Henry Kaiser (musician)">Henry Kaiser</a>, most notably as part of the ad hoc grouping <a href="/wiki/French_Frith_Kaiser_Thompson" title="French Frith Kaiser Thompson">French Frith Kaiser Thompson</a> with whom he recorded two albums. In 1997 he worked with long-time friend and band member <a href="/wiki/Danny_Thompson" title="Danny Thompson">Danny Thompson</a> to record a <a href="/wiki/Concept_album" title="Concept album">concept album</a> <i>Industry</i> that dealt with the decline of British industry. A year later he worked with <a href="/wiki/Early_music" title="Early music">early music</a> expert <a href="/wiki/Philip_Pickett" title="Philip Pickett">Philip Pickett</a> on the acclaimed <i>Bones of All Men</i> which fused <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">renaissance</a> tunes with contemporary music. </p><p>For several years Thompson devised and toured his show <i><a href="/wiki/1000_Years_of_Popular_Music" title="1000 Years of Popular Music">1000 Years of Popular Music</a></i>. The inspiration for this came when <i><a href="/wiki/Playboy" title="Playboy">Playboy</a></i> asked Thompson (and many other music industry figures) in 1999 for their suggestions for the "top ten songs of the millennium". Guessing that <i>Playboy</i> expected most people's lists to start at around 1950, Thompson took the magazine at its word and presented a list of songs from the 11th century to the present day. Perhaps not surprisingly, <i>Playboy</i> did not use his list, but the exercise gave him the idea for a show which takes a chronological trip through popular music across the ages. Thompson acknowledges that this is an ambitious undertaking, partly because he reckons that he is technically unqualified to sing 98% of the material,<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and partly because of the sparse musical setting he restricts himself to: besides his acoustic guitar, he's backed by singer/pianist <a href="/wiki/Judith_Owen" title="Judith Owen">Judith Owen</a> and percussionist/singer <a href="/wiki/Debra_Dobkin" title="Debra Dobkin">Debra Dobkin</a>. A typical performance would start with a medieval round, progress via a <a href="/wiki/Henry_Purcell" title="Henry Purcell">Purcell</a> aria, Victorian <a href="/wiki/Music_hall" title="Music hall">music hall</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hoagy_Carmichael" title="Hoagy Carmichael">Hoagy Carmichael</a> and end with Thompson's take on the <a href="/wiki/Britney_Spears" title="Britney Spears">Britney Spears</a> hit "<a href="/wiki/Oops!..._I_Did_It_Again_(song)" title="Oops!... I Did It Again (song)">Oops!... I Did It Again</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2004 Thompson was asked to create the soundtrack music for the <a href="/wiki/Werner_Herzog" title="Werner Herzog">Werner Herzog</a> documentary <i><a href="/wiki/Grizzly_Man" title="Grizzly Man">Grizzly Man</a></i>. The score, which was recorded over a two-day period in December 2004, brought Thompson together with a group of improvisational musicians, mostly from the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_area" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco Bay area">San Francisco Bay area</a>; video footage from the sessions was edited into a mini-documentary, <i>In the Edges,</i> which was included with the DVD release of <i>Grizzly Man</i>. </p><p>In 2009 Thompson was commissioned to write a piece for the International Society of Bassists in honour of Danny Thompson. The resulting <i>Cabaret of Souls</i>, a musical play set in the underworld, has been performed in <a href="/wiki/State_College,_Pennsylvania" title="State College, Pennsylvania">State College, Pennsylvania</a>, London, and Los Angeles with a cast that includes <a href="/wiki/Harry_Shearer" title="Harry Shearer">Harry Shearer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Judith_Owen" title="Judith Owen">Judith Owen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Debra_Dobkin" title="Debra Dobkin">Debra Dobkin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pete_Zorn" title="Pete Zorn">Pete Zorn</a>, either <a href="/wiki/Danny_Thompson" title="Danny Thompson">Danny Thompson</a> or <a href="/wiki/David_Piltch" title="David Piltch">David Piltch</a>, and a 12-piece string section conducted by <a href="/wiki/Peter_Askim" title="Peter Askim">Peter Askim</a>. This suite was eventually commercially released in late 2012. </p><p>In 2006 and 2013, Thompson recorded <a href="/wiki/Hugh_S._Roberton" title="Hugh S. Roberton">Hugh S. Roberton</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Mingulay_Boat_Song" title="Mingulay Boat Song">Mingulay Boat Song</a>" and the traditional "General Taylor" for the <a href="/wiki/Sea_shanty" title="Sea shanty">sea shanty</a>-compilations <i><a href="/wiki/Rogue%27s_Gallery:_Pirate_Ballads,_Sea_Songs,_and_Chanteys" title="Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys">Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Son_of_Rogues_Gallery:_Pirate_Ballads,_Sea_Songs_%26_Chanteys" title="Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys">Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2019, <a href="/wiki/New_West_Records" title="New West Records">New West Records</a> released a soundtrack album for the documentary <i>The Cold Blue</i>, featuring the film's original score composed by Thompson. The film, directed by <a href="/wiki/Erik_Nelson_(filmmaker)" title="Erik Nelson (filmmaker)">Erik Nelson</a>, focuses on the <a href="/wiki/Eighth_Air_Force" title="Eighth Air Force">Eighth Air Force</a>. It uses footage taken by director <a href="/wiki/William_Wyler" title="William Wyler">William Wyler</a> for his 1944 documentary <i><a href="/wiki/Memphis_Belle:_A_Story_of_a_Flying_Fortress" title="Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress">Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Retrospectives_and_tributes">Retrospectives and tributes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Thompson_(musician)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Retrospectives and tributes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are a number of retrospective collections of Thompson's work, many containing material which is unavailable elsewhere. 1976's <i><a href="/wiki/(guitar,_vocal)" title="(guitar, vocal)">(guitar, vocal)</a></i> was a collection of unreleased material from the previous eight years of Thompson's appearances on the <a href="/wiki/Island_Records" title="Island Records">Island</a> label. The 3-CD set <i><a href="/wiki/Watching_the_Dark" title="Watching the Dark">Watching the Dark</a></i> combines his better-known songs and previously unreleased live and studio tracks. <i><a href="/wiki/Action_Packed" title="Action Packed">Action Packed</a></i> is a compilation of tracks from his Capitol releases, plus three hard-to-find songs. Finally, in 2006, the independent label Free Reed released <i><a href="/wiki/RT-_The_Life_and_Music_of_Richard_Thompson" title="RT- The Life and Music of Richard Thompson">RT- The Life and Music of Richard Thompson</a></i>, a 5-CD box set consisting almost entirely of previously unreleased performances of songs from throughout Thompson's long career. </p><p>Thompson's songs have been extensively covered; for example, <a href="/wiki/Dimming_of_the_Day" title="Dimming of the Day">Dimming of the Day</a> has been performed by artists such as <a href="/wiki/The_Neville_Brothers" title="The Neville Brothers">The Neville Brothers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Raitt" title="Bonnie Raitt">Bonnie Raitt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Emmylou_Harris" title="Emmylou Harris">Emmylou Harris</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Gilmour" title="David Gilmour">David Gilmour</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Blind_Boys_of_Alabama" title="The Blind Boys of Alabama">The Blind Boys of Alabama</a>, <a href="/wiki/June_Tabor" title="June Tabor">June Tabor</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Corrs" title="The Corrs">The Corrs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alison_Krauss_%26_Union_Station" title="Alison Krauss & Union Station">Alison Krauss & Union Station</a>. There have been several tribute compilations of other artists' interpretations of his work, including: <a href="/wiki/Capitol_Records" title="Capitol Records">Capitol</a>'s <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Beat_the_Retreat:_Songs_by_Richard_Thompson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Beat the Retreat: Songs by Richard Thompson (page does not exist)">Beat the Retreat: Songs by Richard Thompson</a></i> and <a href="/wiki/Green_Linnet_Records" title="Green Linnet Records">Green Linnet</a>'s <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_World_Is_a_Wonderful_Place:_The_Songs_of_Richard_Thompson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The World Is a Wonderful Place: The Songs of Richard Thompson (page does not exist)">The World Is a Wonderful Place: The Songs of Richard Thompson</a></i>, both released in 1994. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Playing_style">Playing style</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Thompson_(musician)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Playing style"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Thompson makes use of the "pick and fingers" technique (sometimes referred to as "<a href="/wiki/Hybrid_picking" title="Hybrid picking">hybrid picking</a>") where he plays bass notes and rhythm with a pick between his first finger and thumb, and adds melody and punctuation by plucking the treble strings with his fingers. He also makes use of different <a href="/wiki/Guitar_tunings" title="Guitar tunings">guitar tunings</a>, such as (low to high) <a href="/w/index.php?title=CGDGBE&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="CGDGBE (page does not exist)">CGDGBE</a>, <a href="/wiki/Drop_D_tuning" title="Drop D tuning">DADGBE</a>, <a href="/wiki/DADGAD" title="DADGAD">DADGAD</a>, and more. This enables him to adapt traditional songs, as on <i><a href="/wiki/Strict_Tempo!" title="Strict Tempo!">Strict Tempo!</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/1000_Years_of_Popular_Music" title="1000 Years of Popular Music">1000 Years of Popular Music</a></i>. Thompson occasionally makes use of a thumb-pick, playing in <a href="/wiki/Fingerstyle" class="mw-redirect" title="Fingerstyle">fingerstyle</a>, the most notable example being on the motorcycle ballad "<a href="/wiki/1952_Vincent_Black_Lightning" title="1952 Vincent Black Lightning">1952 Vincent Black Lightning</a>". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Guitars">Guitars</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Thompson_(musician)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Guitars"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Electric">Electric</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Thompson_(musician)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Electric"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Thompson is often associated with the <a href="/wiki/Fender_Musical_Instruments_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Fender Musical Instruments Corporation">Fender</a> <a href="/wiki/Stratocaster" class="mw-redirect" title="Stratocaster">Stratocaster</a> guitar. He has made prominent use of Stratocasters, as he has a general preference for the sound of <a href="/wiki/Single_coil" class="mw-redirect" title="Single coil">single coil</a> pick-ups. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>When I started playing Fenders in 1968, it was unfashionable because everyone in England was playing Gibsons and trying to get a big, fat sound like <a href="/wiki/Eric_Clapton" title="Eric Clapton">Eric Clapton</a> had in <a href="/wiki/Cream_(band)" title="Cream (band)">Cream</a>. I just wanted a little more bite.</p></blockquote> <p>Prior to using a Stratocaster with Fairport Convention he used a <a href="/wiki/Les_Paul_(guitar)" class="mw-redirect" title="Les Paul (guitar)">Gibson Les Paul</a> with <a href="/wiki/P-90" title="P-90">P-90</a> pick-ups. He then switched to a late 60s Stratocaster. Since leaving Fairport Convention he has continued to use electric guitars with single coil pick-ups, most famously a late-1950s Stratocaster but also two custom built electrics by Danny Ferrington as well as other Stratocasters, various <a href="/wiki/Telecaster" class="mw-redirect" title="Telecaster">Telecaster</a>-type guitars and, in the studio, a <a href="/wiki/Danelectro" title="Danelectro">Danelectro</a> U2. </p><p>As regards <a href="/wiki/Effects_unit" title="Effects unit">effects</a>, he has made significant use of modulation and <a href="/wiki/Vibrato" title="Vibrato">vibrato</a> type effects pedals, most notably the <a href="/wiki/Univibe" class="mw-redirect" title="Univibe">Univibe</a> and emulations thereof. </p><p>Thompson has made intermittent use of <a href="/wiki/Roland_Corporation" title="Roland Corporation">Roland</a>'s GK-1 pick-up and GL-2 synthesiser over the years. He made use of these devices on 1979's <i><a href="/wiki/Sunnyvista" title="Sunnyvista">Sunnyvista</a></i> album and has occasionally used them in concert. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Acoustic">Acoustic</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Thompson_(musician)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Acoustic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since the early 1990s, Thompson has made prominent use of <a href="/wiki/George_Lowden" title="George Lowden">Lowden</a> acoustic guitars for studio and live work; Lowden have made a signature model for him. Before this he used a <a href="/wiki/C._F._Martin_%26_Company" title="C. F. Martin & Company">Martin</a> 000-18 as well as instruments built by Danny Ferrington. </p><p>For live work, his acoustic guitars are fitted with a Sunrise pick-up and an internal condenser microphone. The output from the pick-up is usually fed into some effects pedals, typically a <a href="/wiki/Delay_pedal" class="mw-redirect" title="Delay pedal">delay pedal</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Uni-Vibe" title="Uni-Vibe">Uni-Vibe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-RTGearQandA_95-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RTGearQandA-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Thompson_(musician)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Thompson had his first son, Jesse, in the early 1970s with American tour booker Liz Gordon after a brief relationship.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the early 1970s, Thompson began a relationship with the singer Linda Peters, who sang on Thompson's album <i>Henry the Human Fly</i>. In October 1972 the couple were married at Hampstead Town Hall.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The couple worked as a duo and have three children: Muna Thompson and the musicians <a href="/wiki/Teddy_Thompson" title="Teddy Thompson">Teddy Thompson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kamila_Thompson" title="Kamila Thompson">Kamila Thompson</a>. Richard and Linda Thompson separated in 1982. </p><p>Richard Thompson married Nancy Covey in 1985, and was with Covey until they separated in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-denselow_98-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-denselow-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thompson and Covey have a son, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jack_Covey_Thompson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jack Covey Thompson (page does not exist)">Jack Covey Thompson</a>, a musician and visual artist who lives in London and has recorded with <a href="/wiki/Henry_Kaiser_(musician)" title="Henry Kaiser (musician)"> Henry Kaiser</a>, Cuban musician Yelfris Valdez, and the Thompson family.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2021, Richard Thompson married his third wife, the author, actor, singer and songwriter Zara Philips<sup id="cite_ref-denselow_98-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-denselow-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with whom he lives in <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">New Jersey</a>. They contribute to one another's musical projects. </p><p>In 2024 his touring band for the album <i><a href="/wiki/Ship_to_Shore_(Richard_Thompson_album)" title="Ship to Shore (Richard Thompson album)">Ship to Shore</a></i> included Thompson's grandson (Muna's son) <a href="/wiki/Zak_Hobbs" title="Zak Hobbs">Zak Hobbs</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Thompson_(musician)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Richard_Thompson_discography" title="Richard Thompson discography">Richard Thompson discography</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Books">Books</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Thompson_(musician)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFThompson2021" class="citation book cs1">Thompson, Richard (2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1159043406"><i>Beeswing: Losing my Way and Finding my Voice, 1967–1975</i></a> (First ed.). Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-61620-895-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-61620-895-0"><bdi>978-1-61620-895-0</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1159043406">1159043406</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Beeswing%3A+Losing+my+Way+and+Finding+my+Voice%2C+1967%E2%80%931975&rft.place=Chapel+Hill&rft.edition=First&rft.pub=Algonquin+Books&rft.date=2021&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1159043406&rft.isbn=978-1-61620-895-0&rft.aulast=Thompson&rft.aufirst=Richard&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldcat.org%2Foclc%2F1159043406&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARichard+Thompson+%28musician%29" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Richard_Thompson_(musician)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDenselow2019" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Robin_Denselow" title="Robin Denselow">Denselow, Robin</a> (30 September 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190930085010/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/30/richard-thompson-at-70-on-love-loss-and-being-a-muslim-in-trump-us">"Richard Thompson at 70: on love, loss and being a Muslim in Trump's US"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. 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Schirmer. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-02-864752-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-02-864752-1"><bdi>0-02-864752-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Richard+Thompson+%E2%80%93+The+Biography&rft.pub=Schirmer&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=0-02-864752-1&rft.aulast=Humphries&rft.aufirst=Patrick&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Frichardthompsonb00hump&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARichard+Thompson+%28musician%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSmith2004" class="citation web cs1">Smith, Dave (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160202165823/http://archive.richardthompson-music.com/docs/GV_book.pdf">"The Great Valerio – A Study of the Songs of Richard Thompson"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archive.richardthompson-music.com/docs/GV_book.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 2 February 2016.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Great+Valerio+%E2%80%93+A+Study+of+the+Songs+of+Richard+Thompson&rft.date=2004&rft.aulast=Smith&rft.aufirst=Dave&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.richardthompson-music.com%2Fdocs%2FGV_book.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARichard+Thompson+%28musician%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThompson2021" class="citation book cs1">Thompson, Richard (2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1159043406"><i>Beeswing: Losing my Way and Finding my Voice, 1967–1975</i></a> (First ed.). 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Me? Us?">You? Me? Us?</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mock_Tudor_(album)" title="Mock Tudor (album)">Mock Tudor</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Old_Kit_Bag" title="The Old Kit Bag">The Old Kit Bag</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/1000_Years_of_Popular_Music" title="1000 Years of Popular Music">1000 Years of Popular Music</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Front_Parlour_Ballads" title="Front Parlour Ballads">Front Parlour Ballads</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sweet_Warrior" title="Sweet Warrior">Sweet Warrior</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dream_Attic" title="Dream Attic">Dream Attic</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Electric_(Richard_Thompson_album)" title="Electric (Richard Thompson album)">Electric</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Acoustic_Classics" title="Acoustic Classics">Acoustic Classics</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Still_(Richard_Thompson_album)" title="Still (Richard Thompson album)">Still</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Acoustic_Classics_II" title="Acoustic Classics II">Acoustic Classics II</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/13_Rivers" title="13 Rivers">13 Rivers</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ship_to_Shore_(Richard_Thompson_album)" title="Ship to Shore (Richard Thompson album)">Ship to Shore</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">with <a href="/wiki/Linda_Thompson_(singer)" title="Linda Thompson (singer)">Linda Thompson</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/I_Want_to_See_the_Bright_Lights_Tonight" title="I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight">I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hokey_Pokey_(album)" title="Hokey Pokey (album)">Hokey Pokey</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pour_Down_Like_Silver" title="Pour Down Like Silver">Pour Down Like Silver</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/First_Light_(Richard_and_Linda_Thompson_album)" title="First Light (Richard and Linda Thompson album)">First Light</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sunnyvista" title="Sunnyvista">Sunnyvista</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shoot_Out_the_Lights" title="Shoot Out the Lights">Shoot Out the Lights</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">with <a href="/wiki/Danny_Thompson" title="Danny Thompson">Danny Thompson</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Industry_(Richard_Thompson_and_Danny_Thompson_album)" title="Industry (Richard Thompson and Danny Thompson album)">Industry</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Live albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Small_Town_Romance" title="Small Town Romance">Small Town Romance</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_at_Crawley" title="Live at Crawley">Live at Crawley</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Two_Letter_Words" title="Two Letter Words">Two Letter Words: Live 1994</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Celtschmerz" title="Celtschmerz">Celtschmerz: Live in the UK ‘98</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Semi-Detached_Mock_Tudor" title="Semi-Detached Mock Tudor">Semi-Detached Mock Tudor</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/More_Guitar" title="More Guitar">More Guitar</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ducknapped!" title="Ducknapped!">Ducknapped!</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Faithless_(Richard_Thompson_album)" title="Faithless (Richard Thompson album)">Faithless</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Chrono_Show" title="The Chrono Show">The Chrono Show</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_from_Austin,_TX_(Richard_Thompson_album)" title="Live from Austin, TX (Richard Thompson album)">Live from Austin, TX</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_Concert,_November_1975" title="In Concert, November 1975">In Concert, November 1975</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_Warrior" title="Live Warrior">Live Warrior</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_at_the_BBC_(Richard_%26_Linda_Thompson_album)" title="Live at the BBC (Richard & Linda Thompson album)">Live at the BBC</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other releases</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Variations_on_a_Theme_(David_Thomas_album)" title="Variations on a Theme (David Thomas album)">Variations on a Theme</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sweet_Talker_(soundtrack)" title="Sweet Talker (soundtrack)">Sweet Talker</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Grizzly_Man_(soundtrack)" title="Grizzly Man (soundtrack)">Grizzly Man</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Family_(Thompson_album)" title="Family (Thompson album)">Family</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Compilation albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/(guitar,_vocal)" title="(guitar, vocal)">(guitar, vocal)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live!_(More_or_Less)" title="Live! (More or Less)">Live! (More or Less)</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Watching_the_Dark" title="Watching the Dark">Watching the Dark</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Best_of_Richard_%26_Linda_Thompson:_The_Island_Records_Years" title="The Best of Richard & Linda Thompson: The Island Records Years">The Best of Richard & Linda Thompson: The Island Records Years</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Action_Packed" title="Action Packed">Action Packed</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/RT-_The_Life_and_Music_of_Richard_Thompson" title="RT- The Life and Music of Richard Thompson">RT- The Life and Music of Richard Thompson</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Songs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/1952_Vincent_Black_Lightning" title="1952 Vincent Black Lightning">1952 Vincent Black Lightning</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Dimming_of_the_Day" title="Dimming of the Day">Dimming of the Day</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Tear-Stained_Letter" title="Tear-Stained Letter">Tear-Stained Letter</a>"</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Thompson_discography" title="Richard Thompson discography">Discography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Albion_Band" title="The Albion Band">The Albion Band</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Bunch" title="The Bunch">The Bunch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fairport_Convention" title="Fairport Convention">Fairport Convention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_Frith_Kaiser_Thompson" title="French Frith Kaiser Thompson">French Frith Kaiser Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Palominos" title="The Golden Palominos">The Golden Palominos</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kamila_Thompson" title="Kamila Thompson">Kamila Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Linda_Thompson_(singer)" title="Linda Thompson (singer)">Linda Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teddy_Thompson" title="Teddy Thompson">Teddy Thompson</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1256394678"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox navbox-musical-artist navbox-musical-artist-group" aria-labelledby="Fairport_Convention642" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks vcard hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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href="/wiki/Jerry_Donahue" title="Jerry Donahue">Jerry Donahue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Rowland_(drummer)" title="Bruce Rowland (drummer)">Bruce Rowland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Ar_Braz" title="Dan Ar Braz">Dan Ar Braz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maartin_Allcock" title="Maartin Allcock">Maartin Allcock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerry_Conway_(musician)" title="Gerry Conway (musician)">Gerry Conway</a></li></ul> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Fairport_Convention_discography" title="Fairport Convention discography">Discography</a></b></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Studio albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Fairport_Convention_(album)" title="Fairport Convention (album)">Fairport Convention</a></i> (1968)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/What_We_Did_on_Our_Holidays" title="What We Did on Our Holidays">What We Did on Our Holidays</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Unhalfbricking" title="Unhalfbricking">Unhalfbricking</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Liege_%26_Lief" title="Liege & Lief">Liege & Lief</a></i> (1969)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Full_House_(Fairport_Convention_album)" title="Full House (Fairport Convention album)">Full House</a></i> (1970)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Angel_Delight_(album)" title="Angel Delight (album)">Angel Delight</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/%22Babbacombe%22_Lee" title=""Babbacombe" Lee">"Babbacombe" Lee</a></i> (1971)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rosie_(Fairport_Convention_album)" title="Rosie (Fairport Convention album)">Rosie</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nine_(Fairport_Convention_album)" title="Nine (Fairport Convention album)">Nine</a></i> (1973)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rising_for_the_Moon" title="Rising for the Moon">Rising for the Moon</a></i> (1975)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gottle_O%27Geer" title="Gottle O'Geer">Gottle O'Geer</a></i> (1976)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Bonny_Bunch_of_Roses_(album)" title="The Bonny Bunch of Roses (album)">The Bonny Bunch of Roses</a></i> (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Tipplers_Tales" title="Tipplers Tales">Tipplers Tales</a></i> (1978)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Gladys%27_Leap" title="Gladys' Leap">Gladys' Leap</a></i> (1985)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Expletive_Delighted!" title="Expletive Delighted!">Expletive Delighted!</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/In_Real_Time:_Live_%2787" title="In Real Time: Live '87">In Real Time: Live '87</a></i> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Red_%26_Gold" title="Red & Gold">Red & Gold</a></i> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Five_Seasons" title="The Five Seasons">The Five Seasons</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jewel_in_the_Crown_(album)" title="Jewel in the Crown (album)">Jewel in the Crown</a></i> (1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Old_New_Borrowed_Blue" title="Old New Borrowed Blue">Old New Borrowed Blue</a></i> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Who_Knows_Where_the_Time_Goes%3F_(Fairport_Convention_album)" title="Who Knows Where the Time Goes? (Fairport Convention album)">Who Knows Where the Time Goes?</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Wood_and_the_Wire" title="The Wood and the Wire">The Wood and the Wire</a></i> (1999)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/XXXV_(album)" title="XXXV (album)">XXXV</a></i> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Over_the_Next_Hill" title="Over the Next Hill">Over the Next Hill</a></i> (2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Sense_of_Occasion" title="Sense of Occasion">Sense of Occasion</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Festival_Bell" title="Festival Bell">Festival Bell</a></i> (2011)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/By_Popular_Request" title="By Popular Request">By Popular Request</a></i> (2012)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Myths_and_Heroes" title="Myths and Heroes">Myths and Heroes</a></i> (2015)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/50:50@50" title="50:50@50">50:50@50</a></i> (2017)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shuffle_and_Go" title="Shuffle and Go">Shuffle and Go</a></i> (2020)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Singles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/If_I_Had_a_Ribbon_Bow" title="If I Had a Ribbon Bow">If I Had a Ribbon Bow</a>" (1968)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Meet_on_the_Ledge" title="Meet on the Ledge">Meet on the Ledge</a>" (1968)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/I%27ll_Keep_It_with_Mine" title="I'll Keep It with Mine">I'll Keep It with Mine</a>" (1969)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/If_You_Gotta_Go,_Go_Now" title="If You Gotta Go, Go Now">Si Tu Dois Partir</a>" (1969)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/Now_Be_Thankful" title="Now Be Thankful">Now Be Thankful</a>" (1970)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Live albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Fairport_Live_Convention" title="Fairport Live Convention">Fairport Live Convention</a></i> (1974)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_at_the_L.A._Troubadour" title="Live at the L.A. Troubadour">Live at the L.A. Troubadour</a></i> (1977)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Farewell,_Farewell" title="Farewell, Farewell">Farewell, Farewell</a></i> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Moat_on_the_Ledge:_Live_at_Broughton_Castle,_August_%2781" title="Moat on the Ledge: Live at Broughton Castle, August '81">Moat on the Ledge - Live at Broughton Castle</a></i> (1982)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/House_Full:_Live_at_the_L.A._Troubadour" title="House Full: Live at the L.A. Troubadour">House Full</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Heyday_(Fairport_Convention_album)" title="Heyday (Fairport Convention album)">Heyday</a></i> (1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/From_Past_Archives" title="From Past Archives">From Past Archives</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Live_at_the_BBC_(Fairport_Convention_album)" title="Live at the BBC (Fairport Convention album)">Live at the BBC</a></i> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Off_the_Desk" title="Off the Desk">Off the Desk</a></i> (2008)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Compilations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_History_of_Fairport_Convention" title="The History of Fairport Convention">The History of Fairport Convention</a></i> (1972)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fairport_Chronicles" title="Fairport Chronicles">Fairport Chronicles</a></i> (1976)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Box sets</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Cropredy_Box" title="The Cropredy Box">The Cropredy Box</a></i> (1998)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fairport%27s_Cropredy_Convention" title="Fairport's Cropredy Convention">Fairport's Cropredy Convention</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fairport%27s_Cropredy_Convention_appearances" title="Fairport's Cropredy Convention appearances">appearances</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woodworm_Records" title="Woodworm Records">Woodworm Records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matty_Grooves_Records" title="Matty Grooves Records">Matty 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