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Richard and Linda Thompson's Flight From Convention

Mick Brown, Rolling Stone, 5 April 1979

"IF I DON'T seem a part of the recording industry, it's probably because I don't feel a part of it," says Richard Thompson, the guitarist/songwriter/singer half of Richard and Linda Thompson, during tea at his manager's London home. "I'm prepared to use it, but I try to avoid it using me. If I had the means to avoid the industry altogether, I would."

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