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Thompson doesn’t mention in the book that they supported Helen Shapiro at the Golders Green Iconic, or that he taught Cornwell to play bass. A favourite of both Robert Plant and Elvis Costello, Thompson has also been covered by acts as varied as feminist punks Sleater-Kinney, REM, David Byrne and, most recently, Mark Ronson, who covered the 1974 title track of Thompson’s album with first wife Linda Thompson, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight. After departing the group in 1971, Thompson released his debut solo album Henry the Human Fly in 1972. Guessing that Playboy 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.

and Thompson, with Linda now effectively his front woman, regrouped for his next album and the next phase of his career. ref name="mz11219-ballad-of-a-thin-man">{{cite magazine|last=Trynka|first=Paul|date=Dec 1986|title=Ballad Of A Thin Man|page=57|url=https://www. 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.Boyd tells me of one gig in LA where Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt and Maria Muldaur were in the front row to support her, holding hands.

The Bunch were almost the reverse conceptually – a grouping of English folk rock musicians (including Sandy Denny, Linda Peters and members of Fairport Convention) recording a selection of classic rock and roll tunes. 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).

When pandemics are not happening, he uses data and graphics to tell stories on topics including politics, economics, climate change and sport, and is a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics. Among pop music genres folk-rock is probably the most unfashionable, being either ridiculed or plain ignored by those arbiters of taste who would tell us what's hot and what's not. 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.

There are a number of retrospective collections of Thompson's work, many containing material which is unavailable elsewhere. 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. 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.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. Don't expect to see Kylie gyrating around a morris dancing troupe on "Top of the Pops" quite yet (although you never know, it could happen). In July 2019, New West Records released a soundtrack album for the documentary The Cold Blue, featuring the film's original score composed by Thompson. 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 " I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (with Thompson backed by the Roy Wood Big Band), The Beatles' " I'm Down" and even " The Lady Is a Tramp". International products have separate terms, are sold from abroad and may differ from local products, including fit, age ratings, and language of product, labeling or instructions.