She took piano lessons as a child and frequented London’s folk pubs and clubs as a teenager. Her crystalline soprano drew on folk tradition, but she also embraced psychedelia and progressive rock. Richard Thompson OBE (born 3 April 1949) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist.. Thompson first gained prominence in the late 1960s as the lead guitarist and songwriter for the folk rock group Fairport Convention, which he had co-founded in 1967.After departing the group in 1971, Thompson released his debut solo album Henry the Human Fly in 1972. [2], As Thompson emerged as the lead guitarist, Nicol moved towards rhythm duties and occasional backing vocals. 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Ms. Dyble soon joined the singer and songwriter Jackie McAuley, who had backed Van Morrison in the group Them, to start Trader Horne. They rehearsed above his father's old surgery in Fairport House, which gave its name to the band he and Hutchings formed with Richard Thompson and Shaun Frater as Fairport Convention in 1967. From 1993 he rejoined the Albion Band in a new acoustic line-up, recorded three highly regarded albums, the first of which, Acousticity (1993), he produced, touring extensively in Europe and America. She went on to work within and beyond folky contexts, dipping into progressive rock and electronic music, while joining anniversary reunions of Fairport Convention and its many ex-members through the decades. [29], The period 1986–97 was perhaps the busiest in Nicol's career. Nicol described his technique as 'percussive'. “All the lyrics I sing have a story behind them, and I guess that’s what the folky thing is,” she said in a 2013 interview with the website Let It Rock. Born in Muswell Hill, North London, Nicol was the son of a general practitioner, who died in 1964. Later that year Nicol played on and co-produced the Thompsons' Hokey Pokey album. She married the disc jockey and music critic Simon Stable (born Simon de la Bedoyere) in 1971. Updated: 05-03-2020 From 1973 to 1997, Ms. Dyble largely left music behind, although she appeared with Fairport Convention for its annual Cropredy Festival in 1981 and 1982. Mr. Fripp, Mr. McDonald and Michael Giles formed the now-eminent progressive rock band King Crimson. Nicol recently reunited with original Fairport Convention vocalist Judy Dyble, playing on two tracks on her 2009 album, Talking with Strangers. The songs may have developed, but the gig’s the same.” Their album, “Between a Breath and a Breath,” is due for release in September under the name Dyble Longdon. [24] In 1977 Nicol joined Hutchings' reformed Albion Dance Band for the album The Prospect Before Us and in 1978 as The Albion Band they produced arguably the finest album of the group's history, Rise Up Like the Sun (1978). The band spawned a durable British genre: trad-rock. [9] When Thompson left soon after, Nicol also had to take over lead guitar duties. He also continued to undertake work with a wide variety of artists, including a tour with Art Garfunkel in 1988 and playing on albums by Beverley Craven and Beth Nielsen Chapman. She had lived in Oxfordshire since the 1970s. [32] He regularly rejoins the now suspended Albion Band for their Albion Christmas tours and continues to record with Fairport and other artists.[33]. 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