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« on: September 02, 2007, 10:28:49 AM »

http://arts.independent.co.uk/music/features/article2912605.ece
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« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2007, 01:20:50 PM »

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Nevertheless, having been a prominent and very pretty face on the folk scene of the late 1960s, Linda Peters, née Pettifer, eventually married the scene's pallid genius, Richard T, adopted his Sufic principles along


So Linda was Peters when she married Richard, nee Pettifer. So was this her second marriage? According to the article, when she met Richard, she had just finished an engagement to Joe Boyd, but there's nothing more.

So, who was Mr Peters? Or is Peters just a shortening of Pettifer?
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« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2007, 01:25:33 PM »


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Nevertheless, having been a prominent and very pretty face on the folk scene of the late 1960s, Linda Peters, née Pettifer, eventually married the scene's pallid genius, Richard T, adopted his Sufic principles along


So Linda was Peters when she married Richard, nee Pettifer. So was this her second marriage? According to the article, when she met Richard, she had just finished an engagement to Joe Boyd, but there's nothing more.

So, who was Mr Peters? Or is Peters just a shortening of Pettifer?


According to WikiPedia she changed her name between Uni and becoming Mrs Thompson.
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« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2007, 01:41:40 PM »

The answer, if I had read to the bottom of the article, is in a quote from Linda....

But I have been married my whole life. I was actually married for about five minutes when I was 16, Gretna Green and all. And I married my present husband five minutes after my divorce from Richard.
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« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2007, 03:03:43 PM »

Thanks for the link to an interesting article

Scary Coincidences

It's amazing what you learn from reading this board. I wasn't aware of Linda's original surname till today but amused to
hear that she shared MY surname though mine, Petifer, is spelt with a single 't'. Although it's not a common name nothing too
amazing, except that another fact I learnt on here, a couple of years ago was that I was born the very same day as Richard.

While writing this a third coincidence has just occurred to me, a short while ago I was looking at a war memorial carrying the
names of two brothers called Pettifer, where is it?      
in Cropredy churchyard oooooerrrrr  Smiley

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« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2007, 01:20:37 PM »

Interesting choice of five folk-rock classics. Why, I wonder "Pour Down Like Silver" as opposed to Bright Lights or Shoot Out the Lights?

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« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2007, 05:47:47 PM »


Interesting choice of five folk-rock classics. Why, I wonder "Pour Down Like Silver" as opposed to Bright Lights or Shoot Out the Lights?




'Cos it's better?   Wink
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« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2007, 05:49:56 PM »



Interesting choice of five folk-rock classics. Why, I wonder "Pour Down Like Silver" as opposed to Bright Lights or Shoot Out the Lights?




'Cos it's better?   Wink

How could that be? It doesn't have Don't Renege on our Love on it?  Wink Smiley
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« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2007, 09:55:49 AM »

Interesting to hear about the abandoned Nick Hornby script - one of his essays in '31 songs' is on Calvary Cross - well worth reading. If a little over-written at times it is clearly the work of a music lover (as if anyone who had read Hi-Fidelity had any doubt of that).

I'm with David mjs on the choice of album - I love Bright Lights but if I had to pick one it would be Pour down like Silver.
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