Linda Thompson (singer)

Linda Thompson (actually: Linda Pettifer, also known as Linda Peters, born 1948 in the London Borough of Hackney ) is a British folk singer.

Under the name Linda Peters took her as one half of the duo Paul & Linda with Paul McNeill on 1968 two singles that flopped both. After she had then operated for several years as a session musician and singer in folk clubs, she joined with various sizes of the British folk scene to the short-lived band The Bunch together, their sole album Rock On she appeared. There, she first worked with Richard Thompson, whom she had met in 1969.

In the same year Peter Thompson assisted on his solo debut, Henry the Human Fly, and eventually they married. Published in 1974 Richard and Linda Thompson I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight her first album, the many more followed (for more information see Richard Thompson). In 1982, after the release of Shoot out the Lights, the most successful album of the couple, the two they separated surprisingly, both musically and on a personal level.

In the following years, Linda Thompson then operated as an actress in the theater until 1985 they signed a contract with Warner Brothers signed. As a result, her solo debut One Clear appeared in the same year the moment. However, one other singing career was a mental disorder in ways that made ​​it Thompson sometimes impossible to speak or sing. Due to this problem, a project for CBS Records in the late 1980s had to be canceled.

Thompson retired from the music scene back then and opened a jewelry store in London. They also continue to be operated as a songwriter. So she wrote with Betsy Cook the country song Telling Me Lies, the 1987 Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris ' trio appeared and was nominated for a Grammy. 2002 then appeared after 17 -year-old studio break Fashionably Late, a second solo album Thompson, who had now found her voice. 2007 was followed by the CD Versatile Heart, which also contains the song Beauty alongside traditional folk songs and original compositions that Rufus Wainwright has written especially for them, and on which she is accompanied by Antony.

Discography

Richard and Linda Thompson

Richard and Linda Thompson (live)

  • In Concert 1975 ( not released until 2007)

Solo albums

Singles - Richard and Linda Thompson

  • Folk singer
  • Briton
  • Born in 1948
  • Woman
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