The current copyright owner/s of this content may differ from the originally published copyright notice. He has made prominent use of Stratocasters, as he has a general preference for the sound of single coil pick-ups. Although low key, Thompson's solo career has progressed steadily over the last few years; last year's album, Across a Crowded Room, his first for Polydor, sounded remarkably contemporary considering it's a style he's been exploring for years. Her gorgeous vocals lifted Thompson’s stunning early compositions, like Unhalfbricking’s opener Genesis Hall, and Meet on the Ledge, a song about the passing of time.

But Thompson left in early 1971, still shell-shocked by the crash, to pursue a solo career that flew well beyond British folk. For that we used a combination of a valve mike close up, and a Calrec Soundfield for the room sound. Neither is the fact that she was pregnant with their youngest daughter, Kami, when she found out about Thompson’s infidelity. She was resplendent in white,” he says of their 1972 wedding day (he was less resplendent, wearing clogs, as he couldn’t find his shoes thanks to a post-stag-night hangover). An easy-to-navigate digital replica of the weekday print edition and FT Weekend, available on your desktop, laptop, tablet and phone.Here he is on the edges: at the famed 14 Hour Technicolor Dream event in Alexandra Palace 1967, watching Yoko Ono’s performance art as John Lennon wanders around. View image in fullscreen Thompson is joined by his daughter Kami, son Teddy and ex-wife Linda at his 70th birthday show at London’s Royal Albert Hall, 2019. The performances, with a backing band including both Simon Nicol and Dave Mattacks of Fairport Convention, were seen as strong, [37] [38] but the tension between Richard and Linda was all too obvious.

For this reason, the Thompsons' fans often refer to the Shoot Out the Lights tour as "The Tour from Hell". The Old Kit Bag is one of Richard Thompson's finest albums, and the surround mix only makes it better. As regards effects, he has made significant use of modulation and vibrato type effects pedals, most notably the Univibe and emulations thereof. Largely because of the petrol shortage in Britain and its impact on the availability of vinyl for records, Bright Lights was held back by Island Records for nearly a year before being released in April 1974.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! A work full of ambitious originals and covers that still regularly appears in best British album polls, it got to No 12 in the charts then; decades later, it became a touchstone for the Green Man festival-endorsed folk-rock revival of the 2000s when everyone who liked Joanna Newsom and Will Oldham raved about it. Other roles have included South Asia bureau chief, Capital Markets editor, and Philippines Correspondent.