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Richard Thompson

UK folk rock singer/songwriter/guitarist

Depuis 1949

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Richard Thompson, né le 3 avril 1949 à Notting Hill, est un auteur-compositeur-interprète et guitariste de folk et de folk rock, de nationalité britannique.

Richard Thompson occupe la 19e place du classement des « 100 plus grands guitaristes de tous les temps» du magazine Rolling Stone, mais sa carrière d'auteur-compositeur, surtout, en fait l'un des musiciens dont l'influence fut la plus profonde et la plus durable, sur de nombreux courants musicaux contemporains. David Byrne, Elvis Costello, Michael Doucet, Los Lobos, Del McCoury, Robert Plant, Bonnie Raitt, les Pointer Sisters, REM, Jo-El Sonnier figurent parmi les artistes qui ont rencontré le succès en interprétant les chansons qu'il a écrites et composées.

La carrière de Richard Thompson débuta, à la fin des années 1960, avec le groupe Fairport Convention dont il est l'un des membres fondateurs. Elle se poursuivit au cours des années 1970 en duo avec Linda Peters, et se poursuivit en solo après leur divorce et la séparation de leurs activités professionnelles.

Richard Thompson a publié plus de quarante albums et contribué à la bande originale de nombreux films dont le documentaire Grizzly Man de Werner Herzog.

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Richard Thompson (born 3 April 1949) is an English songwriter, musician (primarily a guitarist), singer and record producer.

Thompson first gained prominence in the late 1960s as the lead guitarist and a songwriter for the folk rock group Fairport Convention, which he 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 20 solo studio albums. Three of these —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 Europe and North America, and occasionally further afield.

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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