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He has made prominent use of Stratocasters, as he has a general preference for the sound of single coil pick-ups. His band, Fairport Convention, had been signed on the spot in 1967 when producer Joe Boyd saw his talent with a guitar at 17, and their mission to reconnect British rock with the older, beautiful songs of their home country was well under way. His virtuosity puts him in the same league as more celebrated axe heroes like Jimmy Page, and his breaks would not sound out of place on a Led Zeppelin album.

The backing tracks were all recorded live to get a better feel, and the guitar work is all spontaneous.Thompson took to the road with a stripped-down " power trio" band on a multi-month tour on both sides of the Atlantic to promote the new album. Upon its release in 1982, Shoot Out the Lights was lauded by critics and sold quite well – especially in the U. The album the Thompsons were touring, Shoot Out the Lights, was big on US college rock radio, its songs brilliant and tough (titles like Walking on a Wire and Did She Jump Or Was She Pushed? 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? If I could pick on a fault of my youth, it was the fact that I would kind of steamroller over women who didn’t have that strength.

surround sound is used properly it just so much more involving, and when it's as good as this its brilliant. An easy-to-navigate digital replica of the weekday print edition and FT Weekend, available on your desktop, laptop, tablet and phone. In one of the most arresting passages of the book, he describes crawling over to Jeannie a few yards away.

It was hailed as his first solo, all acoustic album since 1981- but strictly speaking it's neither of those things - percussionist Debra Dobkin played on two tracks ("Let It Blow" and "My Soul, My Soul") and Thompson himself added electric guitar to the same two tracks.

I note Thompson now has a sofa – he smiles – but he still prays every day at set times, observes Ramadan, pays the zakat: “I just do the same things that a quarter of people in the world do. Perhaps one impact of devolution is a rekindling of interest in British culture, including folk music, in its many forms. For nearly four decades, Thompson has performed and recorded a wide variety of music, from traditional folk songs to rock-and roll.

Thompson has displayed a penchant for the avant garde as well, working with former Pere Ubu singer David Thomas's grouping The Pedestrians on two albums in 1981 and 1982, respectively. 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. Ever since, he’s lovingly explored and excavated genres from rockabilly to flamenco, music-hall to pop (2003’s 1,000 Years of Popular Music did all this in one album, moving from 13th-century ballad Sumer Is Icumen In to Britney Spears’s Oops! In April 1972, he released his first solo album Henry the Human Fly, recording with Sandy Denny, Pat Donaldson, Sue Draheim, John Kirkpatrick, Barry Dransfield, Ashley Hutchings, Linda Peters, Andy Roberts, and others. But I think I decided at some point that I could be a fat man and a thin man at different times, so that if the budget allows I can let my belt out a couple of notches and take a band out on the road, and then when the going gets tough I can tighten my belt and play solo.

Thompson continued releasing "official bootlegs" on his boutique label as an additional source of revenue – all live recordings.Thompson is still a restlessly curious, active musician, and a raucous one live: his shows often have the power and fervour of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Neither is the fact that she was pregnant with their youngest daughter, Kami, when she found out about Thompson’s infidelity. But America is a strange country, one that’s never quite seemed to recover from the civil war, and I think we’re still feeling the repercussions of that today. Thompson, with Linda now effectively his front woman, regrouped for his next album and the next phase of his career. Richard Thompson- a tribute- Perfect Sound Forever RICHARD THOMPSON A tribute by Alan Crandall (Nov.