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Robert Thompson’s memoir is worth reading for the ‘Fairport years’ alone

12 June 2021

9:00 AM

12 June 2021

9:00 AM

Beeswing: Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice,1967-75 Richard Thompson, with Scott Timberg

Faber, pp.272, 20

One of the more surreal conversations I have had with a musical hero of mine came in 2017 when I found myself arguing with Linda Thompson about the merits of Nick Drake’s music compared with her own and her ex-husband Richard Thompson’s. She suggested Nick’s had a quality that was missing in the work she and Richard created, which explained its posthumous popularity.

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