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    Aug 13, 2020 3 minutes

    Richard & Linda Thompson: “We were prepared to be musical footnotes forever”

    Early on, was there a moment when you both realised youwere creating something special?

    LINDA THOMPSON: When we first started, Richard was quite shy about singing. We fooled around with Everly Brothers songs and country songs. Sounded OK, so we gave it a go!

    I thought we were writing and singing some good songs, and that it was a unique direction in popular music, but we were so far from the mainstream that I just saw songs,

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