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Husband and wife Richard Thompson and Linda Thompson did record from 1974 to 1982 as a duo. This period saw a great amount of critical praise for Richard’s songwriting and Linda’s voice, though not much popular success. Since their divorce, both have pursued solo careers.
I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight showed a clear development from Richard Thompson’s first solo effort, Henry The Human Fly, with Linda’s vocals adding grace, as well as the opportunity for Richard to write from a female perspective. Although Thompson’s trademark gloom is already evident, the lightness and beauty of the arrangements counterbalances this to produce moments of great beauty. The use of brass, from the renowned CWS silver band in particular takes forward Thompson’s continuing crusade to find a more contemporary and ordinary expression of Englishness in music, (as opposed to the forays into the Morris form of his Fairport contemporary Ashley Hutchings, solo, and with The Albion Band). The next year’s release, Hokey Pokey, to some extent repeated the formula, although it wass improved in production values, and was stylistically more adventurous still.
Pour down Like Silver extended the reach of the Thompsons’ music, and without the occasional weaker tracks of the preceding releases.

In 1975 they decided to leave the music business and move to a Sufi commune in East Anglia.
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  • rickskin

    Yes, they need to be merged. Such a great artist.

    October 2011

  • kismetcow

    MusicBrainz has settled on the "&" and that's my preference as well. I don't really care which one is used, I just want them consolidated. This is my #1 wrong-data peeve on last.fm.

    July 2011

  • _KevMusic_

    It's one of the best closers to any album imaginable.

    November 2010

  • goldione

    let me ride on the wall of death one more time. (2)

    November 2010

  • Mr_Phosphorous

    And the winner is.... the ampersand. Richard & Linda Thompson has roughly 4x more plays and 3x more listeners than Richard AND Linda Thompson. Looking at the album sleeves, they're all '&' except Bright Lights. So I suggest that anyone who wants to see them combined should click on 'Suggest a correction' and select Richard & Linda Thompson. Then at the autocorrection should kick in at some point.

    January 2010

  • zz-eon

    <:))>><

    May 2009

  • Shrink125

    PLEASE PUT THEM TOGETHER!!! :). I now have them recorded in my profile as 2 separate artists due to tagging vagaries on the originals, but have decided to stick with and for this combo!

    January 2009

  • SmilinSkullRing

    I just stick with the "and" for all.

    October 2008
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