Linda Thompson

Partner in crime of Richard Thompson, Linda contributed to his first solo effort, Henry The Human Fly in 1972, the same year that she married him. A solo debut of her own didn't actually surface until just over ten years later (following a break up with her husband). Although her songs are not too different from the melancholy musings of the late Sandy Denny, Thompson's vocals are defined by off-the-wall speech patterns and exaggeratedly emotional inflections.