Already a couple, Richard and Linda Thompson decided that they’d start performing together as well. When their record label lost interest in their exploits, they decided to record together.

That was Fairport Convention, with my guest, Richard Thompson, on guitar. After leaving Fairport and playing with a lot of other bands, you and your girlfriend - then wife - Linda Thompson formed ...

Richard and Linda Thompson released six albums together, finishing with the 1982 masterpiece Shoot Out the Lights before both their musical partnership and marriage ended. “Withered and Died ...

It was a family affair at British singer-songwriter Richard Thompson’s 75th birthday concert ... mid-1970s period alongside his first wife, Linda, who sidled on in the background to sing ...

Fronting a small band, Tammy Faye Starlite, a petite blonde with a commanding voice, is throwing herself into Richard and Linda Thompson’s “Hokey Pokey,” jumping up and down during ...

In Annapolis, Thompson began his encore with a spellbinding version of “The Dimming of the Day,” a traditional-sounding ballad of unapologetic romantic longing from the 1975 Richard & Linda ...

40 years on from its release, Wayne Gooderham revisits the second album Richard Thompson recorded in the wake of his split from wife Linda, and finds a subtle, off-kilter – and unfairly overlooked – ...

The most surprising thing being that Linda Thompon doesn’t sing on it herself. Thompson rose to acclaim in the 1970s as the wife and duet partner of guitarist Richard Thompson, to whom she was ...

In 1982, Richard Thompson and then-wife, vocalist Linda Thompson, released the incendiary album, “Shoot Out The Lights.” With heartbreaking tales of a couple in crisis, the album chronicles a ...

Image Richard and Linda Thompson onstage in 1975. The two married three years earlier.Credit...Brian Cooke/Redferns, via Getty Images To drive home the title’s reference to Bryan Ferry’s band ...

Ahead of the Easter weekend, the Quietus writers select a huge list of their favourite religious and spiritual records, from across the spectrum of belief systems, denominations and musical styles The ...