Chapter 01 — Today in music
On a day like today April 3
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1949
Richard Thompson is born, the guitarist who electrified British folklore
Richard Thompson was born in London; at 18 he founded Fairport Convention and with them invented British folk rock. His records with Linda Thompson, like "Shoot Out the Lights", are among the genre's most harrowing. Critics and musicians revere him; the wider public still owes him a debt.
Richard Thompson
Fairport Convention
1944
Tony Orlando is born, the man of the yellow ribbon
Tony Orlando was born in New York; after years as a record executive he returned to the microphone with Dawn and turned "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" into the worldwide phenomenon of 1973. The song of the prisoner coming home made the yellow ribbon a universal symbol of waiting and return.
Tony Orlando
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