Linda Thompson

Linda Thompson is one of the most accomplished singers in British Folk Rock. While she was on the London scene in the late sixties under her maiden name Linda Peters, it was her 1972 marriage to Richard Thompson and their professional collaboration that brought her to a wider audience. In 1974, Richard and Linda released the first album as a duo, I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight, which is widely acknowledged as a classic. It was the first of a string of masterpieces culminating in their finale 1982’s Shoot Out The Lights which famously was accompanied by a tour of America after the couple had separated with the drama playing out nightly on stage. Linda developed a condition, Dysphonia, which affected her voice, but put out one solo album in 1985 Dreams Fly Away. In 2003 she released a remarkable comeback album, Fashionably Late. She toured the UK and America behind that record, but dysphonia made it hard to maintain a live performance schedule. Linda made two more solo albums Versatile Heart (2007) & Won’t Be Long Now (2013) both centered around her compositions. When her next batch of songs was complete, Linda found the dysphonia too much to overcome. She came up with the idea of having her family and friends sing the songs for her, and her latest recording Proxy Music came to be. With vocal contributions from her children Kami, Teddy, and friends like Rufus and Martha Wainwright and Eliza Carthy, it is a singular entry in a career that now spans over fifty years.