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Richard Thompson OBE (born 3 April 1949) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist. [3]Thompson first gained prominence in the late 1960s as the lead guitarist and songwriter for the folk rock group Fairport Convention, which he had co-founded in 1967.
Live at the L.A. Troubadour along with its reissued counterpart House Full are the only live Fairport Convention albums recorded while Richard Thompson was a full-time band member. It was recorded in 1970 on the Full House tour and was reissued in 1986 and again in 2007, with modifications.
1000 Years of Popular Music is a 2003 live album by Richard Thompson. The album was originally conceived after Richard Thompson, along with many other artists, was asked by Playboy magazine to nominate his choice of the best songs of the millennium in anticipation of the year 2000 .
Faithless is a live album by English singer, songwriter, and guitarist Richard Thompson.Released in 2004 on Thompson's own Beeswing label, it is compiled from recordings made during Thompson's 1985 tour in support of his Across a Crowded Room album, and consequently features six of the nine songs from that album.
The discography of Richard Thompson, an English singer/songwriter and guitarist, consists of around 30 studio albums in which he is named on the cover, alongside live albums, singles, compilations, fan club and boutique label releases, soundtracks and collaborations.
Among the Bunch were former and future members of Fairport Convention and others, including Sandy Denny, Richard Thompson, Linda Thompson (credited as Linda Peters), Pat Donaldson, Ashley Hutchings, Gerry Conway, and Dave Mattacks. [1] Fledg'ling Records reissued the album on compact disc in 2003, adding four bonus tracks. [4]
"Beeswing", a song on Richard Thompson's 1994 album Mirror Blue, and the name of his own record label Beeswing, Dumfries and Galloway , a small village in south-west Scotland Beeswing (video game) , a semi-autobiographical game about the developer who grew up in the Scottish town
Fairport Convention are an English folk rock band formed by guitarists Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol, bassist Ashley Hutchings and drummer Shaun Frater (Frater replaced by Martin Lamble after their first gig.) [1] The band currently consists of Nicol, drummer Dave Mattacks (who first joined in 1969), bassist Dave Pegg (since 1969) fiddler Ric Sanders (since 1985) and multi instrumentalist ...