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    Oct 17, 2019 3 minutes
    JIM WIRTH

    RICHARD THOMPSON

    Royal Albert Hall, London, October 1

    Full house for folk-rock introvert’s birthday bash

    the end of a massed finale of Fairport Convention’s anthem for doomed youth, “Meet On The Ledge”, MC Jack Thompson leads the audience in a chorus of “Happy Birthday”. His father responds with a bewildered-looking bow. Billed as a “celebration of friendship, nepotism and music”, Richard Thompson’s lavish 70th-birthday shindig provides a showcase for a myriad of talented friends and family members (his children Teddy and Kami perform, as well as his grandson Zak Hobbs). However, as the 3,000-plus

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