Richard Thompson

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Richard Thompson is a London-born guitar virtuoso whose career started in 1967 as part of the groundbreaking folk band Fairport Convention. The following decade Richard formed a duo with his former wife Linda Thompson, and together they released six albums, including the critically acclaimed, I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight. Richard then struck out on his own, writing songs that have since been covered by artists like Robert Plant, Elvis Costello and Bonnie Raitt.

On today’s episode Bruce Headlam talks to Richard about his love of traditional Scottish music, and how he’s reworked old folk songs over the years. Richard also plays examples of his unique playing style on the guitar and talks about the time he played alongside Jimi Hendrix.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:01.0	Richard Thompson is a London-born guitar virtuoso, whose career started in 1967 as part of the groundbreaking folk band Fairport Convention.
0:20.0	The following decade, Richard formed a duo with his former wife, Linda Thompson. as part of the groundbreaking folk band Fairport Convention.
0:24.8	The following decade, Richard formed a duo with his former wife Linda Thompson.
0:33.2	And together they released six albums, including the critically acclaimed I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight, and my personal favorite, pour down like silver.
0:39.5	Richard then struck out on his own, writing songs that have since been covered by artists like Robert Plant,
0:41.7	Elvis Costello, and Bonnie Ray.
0:43.6	On today's episode,
0:47.0	Bruce Helm talks to Richard about his love of traditional Scottish music and how he's reworked old folk songs over the years.
0:50.3	Richard also plays examples of his unique playing style on the guitar
0:53.6	and talks about the time he played alongside Jimmy Hendrix.
0:59.4	This is Broken Record. Real musicians, real conversations. Here's Bruce Hedlam with Richard Thompson.
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