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Linda Thompson (singer)

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Linda Thompson (née Pettifer, 23 August 1947) is an English folk rock singer. [1]

68 relations: Alex Campbell (singer), Ashley Hutchings, Beautiful Future, Betsy Cook, Bob Dylan, Bond Street, Botulinum toxin, Box set, Brian Pettifer, Crawdaddy (magazine), Dolly Parton, East Anglia, Emmylou Harris, Fairport Convention, Family (Thompson album), First Light (Richard and Linda Thompson album), Folk Radio UK, Folk rock, Glasgow, Grammy Award, Hal Willner, Henry the Human Fly, Hokey Pokey (album), I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight, Islam, John D. Loudermilk, Kamila Thompson, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Kate McGarrigle, Leonard Cohen, Linda Ronstadt, London, Maida Vale, Manfred Mann, Martha Wainwright, Meltdown (festival), Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, MGM Records, Nick Drake, Official Charts Company, Page One Records, Pour Down Like Silver, Primal Scream, Richard Thompson (musician), Robert Kirby, Rock On (The Bunch album), Rosie (album), Rufus Wainwright, Sandy (Sandy Denny album), Sandy Denny, ..., Shoot Out the Lights, Simon Nicol, Spasmodic dysphonia, Sufism, Sunnyvista, Teddy Thompson, Telling Me Lies, The Bunch, The Everly Brothers, The Loco-Motion, The New York Times, The Rails, Three Score and Ten, Topic Records, Trio (Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris album), UK Albums Chart, University of London, When Will I Be Loved (song). Expand index (18 more) »

Alex Campbell (singer)

Alex Campbell (27 April 1931 – 3 January 1987) was a Scottish folk singer.

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Ashley Hutchings

Ashley Stephen Hutchings, MBE (born 26 January 1945) is an English bassist, vocalist, songwriter, arranger, band leader, writer and record producer.

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Beautiful Future

Beautiful Future is the ninth studio album by British rock band Primal Scream, released on on B-Unique Records/Atlantic Records.

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Betsy Cook

Betsy Cook is an American-born singer, songwriter and musician.

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Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.

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Bond Street

Bond Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London.

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Botulinum toxin

Botulinum toxin (BTX) or Botox is a neurotoxic protein produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum and related species.

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Box set

A box set or boxed set is a set of items (for example, a compilation of books, musical recordings, films or television programs) packaged in a box, for sale as a single unit.

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Brian Pettifer

Brian Pettifer (born 1949) is an actor who has appeared in many television shows.

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Crawdaddy (magazine)

Crawdaddy was an American rock music magazine launched in 1966.

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Dolly Parton

Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and philanthropist, known primarily for her work in country music.

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East Anglia

East Anglia is a geographical area in the East of England.

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Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter and musician.

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Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention are a British folk rock band.

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Family (Thompson album)

Family is the debut studio album by folk rock family ensemble Thompson.

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First Light (Richard and Linda Thompson album)

First Light is the fourth album by folk rock duo Richard and Linda Thompson.

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Folk Radio UK

Folk Radio UK is an independent online Music magazine that was founded in 2004.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.

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Glasgow

Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Hal Willner

Hal Willner (born 1956) is an American music producer working in recording, films, TV and live events.

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Henry the Human Fly

Henry the Human Fly was the first solo album by British singer/songwriter/guitarist Richard Thompson.

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Hokey Pokey (album)

Hokey Pokey is the second album by the British duo of singer Linda Thompson and singer/songwriter/guitarist Richard Thompson.

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I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight is the second album released by Richard Thompson and the first including and credited with his then wife, Linda Thompson as Richard and Linda Thompson.

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Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

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John D. Loudermilk

John D. Loudermilk Jr. (March 31, 1934 – September 21, 2016) was an American singer and songwriter.

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Kamila Thompson

Kamila Thompson (born 1983) is a singer-songwriter based in London and New York.

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Kate & Anna McGarrigle

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Kate McGarrigle

Kate McGarrigle, CM (February 6, 1946 – January 18, 2010), January 19, 2010 was a Canadian folk music singer-songwriter, who wrote and performed as a duo with her sister Anna McGarrigle.

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Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen (September 21, 1934 – November 7, 2016) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist.

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Linda Ronstadt

Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American retired popular music singer known for singing in a wide range of genres including rock, country, jazz, light opera, and Latin.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Maida Vale

Maida Vale is an affluent residential district comprising the northern part of Paddington in west London, west of St John's Wood and south of Kilburn.

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Manfred Mann

Manfred Mann were an English rock band, formed in London in 1962.

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Martha Wainwright

Martha Wainwright (born May 8, 1976) is a Canadian-American folk-rock singer-songwriter.

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Meltdown (festival)

Meltdown is an annual festival, held in London, featuring a mix of music, art, performance and film.

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Metropolitan Borough of Hackney

The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney was a Metropolitan borough of the County of London from 1900 to 1965.

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MGM Records

MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946 for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films.

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Nick Drake

Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician, known for his acoustic guitar-based songs.

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company, also referred to as Official Charts (previously known as the Chart Information Network (CIN) and The Official UK Charts Company) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the UK Singles Downloads Chart and the UK Album Downloads Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video charts.

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Page One Records

Page One Records, established in 1966, was the UK independent record label, owned by the producer/manager, Larry Page.

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Pour Down Like Silver

Pour Down Like Silver is the third album by the British duo of singer/songwriter/guitarist Richard and singer Linda Thompson.

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Primal Scream

Primal Scream are a British rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie (vocals) and Jim Beattie.

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Richard Thompson (musician)

Richard Thompson, OBE (born 3 April 1949) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Robert Kirby

Robert Kirby (16 April 1948 – 3 October 2009) was a British-born arranger of string sections for rock and folk music.

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Rock On (The Bunch album)

Rock On is a 1972 one-off album of oldies covers by the Bunch, a group of English folk rock singers and musicians.

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Rosie (album)

Rosie is the eighth studio album by folk-rock outfit Fairport Convention, released in 1973.

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Rufus Wainwright

Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright (born July 22, 1973) is an American-Canadian singer, songwriter, and composer.

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Sandy (Sandy Denny album)

Sandy is the second solo album by British folk rock musician Sandy Denny.

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Sandy Denny

Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny (6 January 1947 – 21 April 1978) was an English singer-songwriter who was lead singer of the British folk rock band Fairport Convention.

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Shoot Out the Lights

Shoot Out the Lights is the sixth and final album by British husband-and-wife rock duo Richard and Linda Thompson.

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Simon Nicol

Simon John Breckenridge Nicol (born 13 October 1950) is an English guitarist, singer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

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Spasmodic dysphonia

Spasmodic dysphonia, also known as laryngeal dystonia, is a disorder in which the muscles that generate a person's voice go into periods of spasm.

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Sufism

Sufism, or Taṣawwuf (personal noun: ṣūfiyy / ṣūfī, mutaṣawwuf), variously defined as "Islamic mysticism",Martin Lings, What is Sufism? (Lahore: Suhail Academy, 2005; first imp. 1983, second imp. 1999), p.15 "the inward dimension of Islam" or "the phenomenon of mysticism within Islam",Massington, L., Radtke, B., Chittick, W. C., Jong, F. de, Lewisohn, L., Zarcone, Th., Ernst, C, Aubin, Françoise and J.O. Hunwick, “Taṣawwuf”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, edited by: P. Bearman, Th.

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Sunnyvista

Sunnyvista, released in October 1979, is the fifth album by Richard and Linda Thompson.

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Teddy Thompson

Teddy Thompson (born 19 February 1976) is a British folk and rock musician.

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Telling Me Lies

"Telling Me Lies" is a song written by Linda Thompson and Betsy Cook, which was included on Thompson's 1985 One Clear Moment album (her first solo album, after divorcing husband and former collaborator Richard Thompson).

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The Bunch

The Bunch were a British folk rock band, which came together in 1971 to record their one off album, Rock On.

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The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers were an American country-influenced rock and roll duo, known for steel-string acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing.

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The Loco-Motion

"The Loco-Motion" is a 1962 pop song written by American songwriters Gerry Goffin and Carole King.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Rails

The Rails is a folk rock band from London, England, composed of husband and wife James Walbourne and Kami Thompson.

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Three Score and Ten

Three Score and Ten: A Voice to the People is a multi-CD box set album issued by Topic Records in 2009 to celebrate 70 years as an independent British record label.

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Topic Records

Topic Records is a British folk music label, which played a major role in the second British folk revival.

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Trio (Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris album)

Trio is a collaboration album by three American performers, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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University of London

The University of London (abbreviated as Lond. or more rarely Londin. in post-nominals) is a collegiate and a federal research university located in London, England.

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When Will I Be Loved (song)

"When Will I Be Loved" is a classic popular song written by Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers, who had a US top ten hit with it in 1960.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Thompson_(singer)

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