Linda Thompson

British musician Linda Thompson is a professional singer and songwriter.allmusic: Linda Thompson Biography

Thompson and her family moved to Glasgow when she was six years old, where her father opened up a TV repair shop. In 1967, she attended London University and quit after only four months to pursue her music career.MySpacePage: Linda Thompson

Thompson started her career in 1968 as part of a duo with Paul McNeill. They recorded two singles. In 1972, she was part of a rock-and-roll band, the Bunch. Later that year she started working with Richard Thompson of Fairport Convention, who she'd met in 1969. They married in 1972 and performed together for ten years. In 1985, she signed with Warner Bros. Records.MSN Music: Linda Thompson Biography Thompson stopped recording and performing because of hysterical dysphonia (a pyschological disorder in which the sufferer is unable to produce speech sounds.) Thompson resurfaced in 2002 with her first album in seventeen years, Fashionably Late. Versatile Heart was released five years later.VH1: Linda Thompson Biography

• 1985: One Clear Moment
• 1996: Dreams Fly Away
• 2002: Fashionably Late
• 2007: Versatile Heart