The OBE given to Annie Lennox for her charitable work may have made the headlines, but Thompson’s many fans will have taken genuine pleasure at his award.
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It’s honours shared as Richard Thompson OBE plays Celtic Connections Recognition for a career in folk music is long overdue
His name was easy to overlook amid all those quango heads and retired academics, but there it was: Richard Thompson, “folk musician and songwriter”, for services to music, the Order of the British Empire, officer rank.
