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Richard John Thompson OBE (born 3 April 1949) is a British songwriter, guitarist and recording and performing musician. Thompson was awarded the Orville H. Gibson Award for best acoustic guitar player in 1991.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Richard Thompson biography on official web site )〕 Similarly, his songwriting has earned him an Ivor Novello Award〔 and, in 2006, a lifetime achievement award from BBC Radio.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2006 – Winners )〕 Artists who have recorded Thompson's compositions include such diverse talents as Del McCoury, R.E.M., Bonnie Raitt, Christy Moore, David Gilmour, Mary Black, Elvis Costello, Marshall Crenshaw, The Corrs, Sandy Denny, June Tabor, Joel Fafard, Maria McKee, Shawn Colvin, Norma Waterson, Martin Carthy, Nanci Griffith, Graham Parker, Jefferson Starship, The Pointer Sisters, Maura O'Connell, Los Lobos, John Doe, Greg Brown, Bob Mould, Barbara Manning, Loudon Wainwright III, The Futureheads, Jeff Lang, Dinosaur Jr., David Byrne, and The Blind Boys of Alabama.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Official web site list of artist's songs covered by other artists )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】Official web site list of artist's songs covered by other artists )〕 Thompson made his début as a recording artist as a member of Fairport Convention in September 1967. He continues to write and record new material regularly and frequently performs live throughout the world. Thompson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to music. On 5 July 2011, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Aberdeen. ==Early life and career (1949 to 1972)== Richard John Thompson was born in Ladbroke Crescent, Notting Hill, West London, England. His father, a Scot, was by profession a Scotland Yard detective, and an amateur guitar player; several other family members had played music professionally. While still attending William Ellis School in Highgate, he formed his first band "Emil and the Detectives" (named after a book and a movie by the same name) with classmate Hugh Cornwell, later lead singer and guitarist of The Stranglers, on bass guitar. Like so many musicians of his generation, Thompson was exposed to and embraced rock and roll music at an early age, and he was also exposed to his father's jazz and traditional Scottish music record collection. His father had seen Django Reinhardt play in Glasgow in the 1930s and played guitar himself. He was later described by his son as "a bad amateur player himself, with three chords, though, unfortunately, not C, F and G." All these styles were to colour Thompson's playing in the years to come. Joe Boyd said: By the age of 18 Thompson was playing with the newly formed Fairport Convention. Thompson's guitar playing caught the ear of American producer Joe Boyd. Largely on the strength of Thompson's playing Boyd took them under his wing and signed them to his Witchseason production and management company. Boyd said: Shortly thereafter Thompson, already acquiring a reputation as an outstanding guitar player, started writing songs seriously. This seems to have been out of necessity as Fairport Convention was essentially a cover band at first. By early 1969, when Fairport's second album ''What We Did on Our Holidays'' was recorded and released, Thompson was starting to emerge as a songwriter of distinction. As Fairport's line-up and their sound evolved, Thompson continued to grow in stature as a player and as a songwriter with compositions like "Meet on the Ledge". He also wrote songs jointly with the band's fiddle player, Dave Swarbrick, songs such as "Crazy Man Michael" from the seminal folk-rock album ''Liege and Lief'' and "Sloth" from its follow-up ''Full House''. On 12 May 1969, between the recording and release of ''Unhalfbricking'', Fairport's van crashed on the M1 motorway on the way home from a gig at Mothers, a club in Birmingham. Drummer Martin Lamble, aged 19, and Thompson's girlfriend Jeannie Franklyn were killed.〔 The rest of the band suffered injuries of varying severity. In January 1971 Thompson announced that he was leaving Fairport Convention. His decision seems to have been instinctive, rather than a calculated career move. In April 1972 he released his first solo album ''Henry the Human Fly'', recording with Sandy Denny, Pat Donaldson, Sue Draheim, John Kirkpatrick, Barry Dransfield, Ashley Hutchings, Linda Peters, Andy Roberts, and others.〔(''Henry the Human Fly'' ) 〕 The album sold poorly and was panned by the press, especially the influential ''Melody Maker'' magazine. With time ''Henry'' has come to be more highly regarded, but at the time the critics' response hurt both Thompson and his career. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Thompson (musician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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