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Beeswing

Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975

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Beeswing

Auteur(s): Richard Thompson, Scott Timberg
Narrateur(s): Richard Thompson
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 A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of 2021

“Thompson is a master showman . . . [Beeswing is] everything you’d hope a Richard Thompson autobiography would be . . . It’s both major and minor, dirge and ditty, light on its feet but packing a punch.”
—The Wall Street Journal

Now Featuring an Interview with Elvis Costello

In this moving, immersive, and long-awaited memoir, beloved international music legend Richard Thompson recreates the spirit of his early years, where he found, and then lost, and then found his way again. Considered one of the top twenty guitarists of all time, Thompson also belongs in the songwriting pantheon alongside Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and Randy Newman. Here the British folk musician takes us back to the late 1960s, a period of great change and creativity for both him and the world at large.

During the pivotal years of 1967 to 1975, just as he was discovering his passion for music, he formed the band Fairport Convention with some schoolmates and helped establish the genre of British folk rock. It was a thrilling period of massive tours, where Thompson was on the road in both the UK and the US, crossing paths with the likes of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Jimi Hendrix, as well as a time of heady and explosive creativity for Thompson, who wrote some of his most famous songs during this time. But as Thompson reveals, those eight years were also marked by upheaval and tragedy. Honest, moving, and compelling, Beeswing vividly captures the life of a remarkable man and musician during a period of artistic intensity, in a world on the cusp of change.

“An absorbing, witty, often deliciously biting read, as all rock memoirs should be.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

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In the early 80s following a reunion of Fairport Convention at a weekend folk rock festival event well attended in Croperdy with great warm weather and the flowing of good ale along the sides of the audience area, I met up with various members of the band's alumni for interviews in my role as a college newspaper entertainment reporter. Over the 1980s, I had met several stars of various rock traditions for interviews with a wide range of personality. None as kind and interested as Richard Thompson was with his audience. He was the rare blend of talent, humility and friendliness, even to an annoying student reporter. We met on Sunny Goodge Street the following weekend and he paid for lunch and tea, while I recorded my questions about his career probably in the same predictable manner as so many others before me. But he was gracious and patient with me. The experience was one that continues to be a good memory. His music was important to me, and it was nice to meet a talented lead guitarist and songwriter who wasn't a major dick. This autobiography explains a lot of why he was that way. It is a great read, especially if you are interested in 60s rock history. A tale in good time.

A definitive history of British folk rock

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I bought this on a whim. It is a meticulous memoir of seven years of his early music life, details of guitars, session musicans, tours, albums etc.

His reflections of his first marriage there is little and of his first 3 children - they are merely mentioned.

Richard Thompson is an amazing singer songwriter, and a stunning guitarist; but as a memorist he is lacking.

He is also not a gifted narrator, it is all a steady monotone, even the bizarre or tragic.

Brilliant Musician, Flat Memoir

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