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...and clarinet in school. He took up the guitar at age 16 and began writing songs two years later. In 1968 he was discovered at a London performance by Ashley Hutchings of the folk rock group Fairport Convention and shortly thereafter signed a contract with Island Records. Drake’s debut album, Five Leaves Left (1969), which was shepherded by Fairport Convention’s renowned producer,...
English guitarist, singer, and songwriter. His career began in the late 1960s as a member of Fairport Convention, whose intermingling of traditional British folk songs, Bob Dylan obscurities, and haunting original compositions (many by Thompson) inaugurated British folk rock. Along with the impassioned vocals of Sandy Denny, Thompson’s intricate, stinging guitar playing gave Fairport Convention...
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