Richard Thompson

Person · Open Library

Works

147

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United Kingdom

Active from

1949-04-03

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

295,306

Total plays

4,325,912

Richard Thompson OBE (born 3 April 1949, Notting Hill, London) is a British singer/songwriter and guitarist. Highly regarded for his guitar techniques, Thompson was awarded the Orville H. Gibson award for best acoustic guitar player in 1991. Similarly, his songwriting has earned him an Ivor Novello Award and, in 2006, a lifetime achievement award from BBC Radio. Thompson made his debut as a recording artist as a member of Fairport Convention in September 1967. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Measurement of Observer Agreement for Categorical Data

   · 1977 · cited 63,319x

2. The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

   · 2009 · cited 59,210x

3. Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

   · 2003 · cited 52,648x

4. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice

   · 1994 · cited 52,083x

5. Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows–Wheeler transform

   · 2009 · cited 47,632x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Richard

Family name

Thompson

Gender

male

Citizenship

United Kingdom

Place of birth

London

Spouse

Linda Thompson

Child

Teddy Thompson

Occupation

recording artist

Languages spoken

English language

Religion

Islam

Genre

rock music

Instrument

guitar

Record label

Island Records

Official website

www.richardthompson-music.com

Image

Richard Thompson - 6-21-07 - Photo by Anthony Pepitone.jpg

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