Beeswing: A rich and rewarding memoir from a giant of English music

Richard Thompson's long-awaited autobiography is an absorbing look back at his formative years with folk legends Fairport Convention

Richard Thompson: a guitarist of great renown with a gift for laconic one-liners

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Beeswing

By Richard Thompson with Scott Timberg

Faber, €24

Even if Richard Thompson had stopped making records entirely in the mid-1970s and gone off to tend his garden, he'd still occupy an exalted place in the firmament of British music. Though he left the legendary folk-rock outfit Fairport Convention fully 50 years ago, first to form a duo with his wife Linda before subsequently going solo, his name and theirs remain synonymous today.

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