![]() No matter what the status of their marriage was at the time, Richard and Linda Thompson’s Shoot Out the Lights (Deluxe Edition) (Rhino Handmade) comes on like a heavyweight prize fight, with the each pugilist landing their share of devastating blows. The explanation is perhaps less interesting than the conjecture, but truth of the matter is that the expectant mother simply didn’t want a photo taken in her condition, so she sent along a photo of herself that she liked along with a note instructing photographer Gered Mankowitz to “hang it on the wall.” He did just that. Much has even been made of the album’s cover, on which Richard Thompson sits beneath a photo of his wife, as if she was no longer a part of his life. ![]() The facts that some of the songs were several years old at the time of the recording, and that Linda Thompson was very much pregnant during the recording sessions do nothing to dispel the myth, and indeed if you listen to these songs with that myth in mind, you can make quite a case for marital discord. For years popular opinion has held that it was an album recorded by a couple in the throes of the disintegration of their relationship. Shoot Out the Lights became a legendary album not just on the basis of the brilliant music it contained, but for the circumstances that surrounded its creation. ![]()
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