7 Second Delay: Live From A Totally Legal Venue

Classic Albums: The Chirping Crickets

Richard Thompson: Goodbye Television Centre

Fairport Convention: Who Knows Where the Time Goes?

The Richard Thompson Band: Live at Celtic Connections

Richard Thompson (featuring Linda Thompson): Live at the BBC

On Tour: Richard Thompson

Richard Thompson: Across a Crowded Room - Live in Concert 1985

The Harry Smith Project Live

Richard Thompson: 1000 Years of Popular Music

In the Edges: The 'Grizzly Man' Session

Richard Thompson: Live from Austin, TX

Richard Thompson Band: Live in Providence

Richard Thompson: Solitary Life

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

An All-Star Tribute to Joni Mitchell

The Best of Sessions at West 54th: Vol. 1

Fairport Convention: It All Comes 'Round Again

Richard Thompson Band: Live at Rockpalast

Richard and Linda Thompson: Live on Rockpalast

The Albion Band

Austin City Limits

Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort

Glastonbury Fayre

Fairport Convention: Live in Paris

Alan Simon ‎– Excalibur II (The Celtic Ring)

Mud, Sweat and Tears: Premiership Rugby

Grizzly Man

Sweet Talker

The Marksman

Richard Thompson  (born 3 April 1949) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist.
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. After departing the group in 1971, Thompson released his debut solo album Henry the Human Fly in 1972. The next year, he formed a duo with his wife Linda Thompson, which produced six albums, including the critically acclaimed I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (1974) and Shoot Out the Lights (1982). After the dissolution of the duo, Thompson revived his solo career with the release of Hand of Kindness in 1983. He has released eighteen solo studio albums. Three of his albums—Rumor and Sigh (1991), You? Me? Us? (1996), and Dream Attic (2010)—have been nominated for Grammy Awards, while Still (2015) was his first UK Top Ten album. He continues to write and record new material and has frequently performed at venues throughout the world, although the COVID-19 pandemic forced him to suspend his touring.
Music critic Neil McCormick described Thompson as "a versatile virtuoso guitarist and a sharp observational singer-songwriter whose work burns with intelligence and dark emotion". His songwriting has earned him an Ivor Novello Award and, in 2006, a lifetime achievement award from BBC Radio. His 1991 song "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" was included in Time magazine's "All-TIME 100 Songs" list of the best English-language musical compositions released between 1923 and 2011. Thompson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to music. Many varied musicians have recorded Thompson's compositions.
His memoir, Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice, 1967–1975, was published in 2021.



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