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Linda Thompson (singer)
m. 1972 - 1982
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1970s: Richard and Linda Thompson. By the 1970s, Thompson had begun a relationship with the singer Linda Peters, who had sung on Henry the Human Fly. In October 1972 the couple were married at Hampstead Town Hall and honeymooned in Corsica.
He left the group by the age of 21 which was followed by a decade long musical partnership with his then-wife Linda, to over 30 years as a highly successful solo artist. In 2011, Thompson received an OBE (Order of the British Empire) personally bestowed upon him by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
Apr 20, 2022 · Sandy Denny was the lead singer. Thompson had no faith in his own voice as a singer and only started singing on stage after leaving the band in 1971 and going solo in '73. He formed a group...
- Terry Gross
Oct 22, 2013 · Linda Thompson is probably best known for the albums she recorded with her husband Richard Thompson in the '70s and early '80s. They divorced, and Thompson has maintained a sporadic solo...
Apr 19, 2024 · Richard Thompson, English guitarist, singer, and songwriter who earned critical acclaim with his masterful musicianship and darkly witty lyrics. His career began in the late 1960s, when his intricate, stinging guitar playing helped give Fairport Convention its edge. He later worked with his wife and solo.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Apr 30, 2024 · Thompson was 24 years old when these songs were recorded, with a new wife and a budding career in tow; he wasn’t a drunkard at the end of his rope, a lowly sex worker or a man looking...
Apr 14, 2021 · If the resulting book doesn’t survey the heralded catalog the singer-songwriter created with Linda Thompson, his wife of the ’70s and early ’80s, as well as his many solo albums, so be it. “In order to cover all that, I would need to write volumes two to nine,” he said with a laugh.
