Richard Thompson has been making music for a very long time. From his days in the late 1960s as a teenage guitar player and songwriter with the seminal British folk rock group Fairport Convention to ...

Richard Thompson's Beeswing dwells on youth, but is colored by decades of hindsight. A breezy, detailed road map of Thompson's teens and twenties during the halcyon days of Britain's folk scene, he ...

Richard Thompson at L.A.'s Teragram Ballroom in February 2019. (Patrick T. Fallon / For The Times) Richard Thompson has played an average of about 100 live shows a year since he was 17. “That’s a lot ...

NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 06: Richard Thompson performs at the The Music Of Aretha Franklin Tribute at Carnegie Hall on March 6, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images) While the ...

Singer-songwriter Richard Thompson says he resisted the idea of a memoir for years, but once he decided to write one he found his objections soon drifted away. “I think I was reluctant until I got ...

Richard Thompson, a British musician who somehow avoided pop stardom throughout his career, has just written about his early days in a new memoir... In 'Beeswing,' Richard Thompson Revisits A Big Life ...

In Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice, 1967-1975, Thompson looks back on difficult memories that turned into familiar songs. Richard Thompson has been making music for a very long time. From ...