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Artist:	THOMPSON, RICHARD AND LINDA
Title:	I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
Label:	ISLAND (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	IMCD 304

2004 reissue in the Island Remasters series (US version on Hannibal is long o/p). Digitally remastered, with bonus tracks; initial copies slipcased. Originally released in 1974 on Island Records (tracks 1-10). Thompson's second post-Fairport Convention solo album with his wife Linda Thompson is the follow-up to 1972's Henry the Human Fly. This re-mastered edition contains three previously unreleased live performances from the Roundhouse in London in September 5, 1975.

"Covering the period 1974-5 Thompson, with partner Linda Peters, embarked on a trilogy of albums that mirrored their own search for a place in a rapidly changing society. The classic Thompson combination of human weakness and transcendence made the songs veer between a black and troubled beauty and heart-warming jollity. Not only that, but in Linda he found the perfect voice to deliver these tales of betrayal and humour. Bright Lights... performs the most perfect balancing act between hard-bitten cynicism and honest humanism. From the opening ''When I get To The Border'' with its chorus of crumhorns and serpents, to the joyous brass band hedonism of the title track, it fools you into thinking it's as old school as a broadsheet ballad while closer inspection reveals a simmering indictment of the worst of modern life." -- Chris Jones/BBC.

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