Richard & Linda Thompson 
Variations: Richard Thompson Featuring Linda Thompson.
The best album credited to Richard & Linda Thompson is I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight which is ranked number 1,086 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 1,602.
Richard & Linda Thompson is ranked number 609 in the overall artist rankings with a total rank score of 2,957 (this takes into account any aliases or variations).
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- Richard Thompson
- Linda Thompson
- See also:
- Ashley Hutchings / Richard Thompson / Dave Mattacks / John Kirkpatrick / Barry Dransfield
- Richard Thompson Featuring Linda Thompson
- The Bunch
- Thompson
- The GP's
- Fairport Convention
- The Richard Thompson Acoustic Trio
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Artist ratings | Avg. artist rating |
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| ! | 02/27/2024 16:17 | 1,035 | 67/100 | |
| ! | 10/27/2023 08:59 | MaxStorm98 | 542 | 92/100 |
| ! | 08/23/2020 06:18 | 495 | 75/100 | |
| ! | 05/28/2019 11:50 | TheSmiths82-87 | 344 | 78/100 |
| ! | 05/05/2019 10:05 | 2,653 | 74/100 |
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This artist is rated in the top 7% of all artists on BestEverAlbums.com. This artist has a Bayesian average rating of 77.9/100, a mean average of 79.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.0/100. The standard deviation for this artist is 17.2.
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