The Best Of Richard And Linda Thompson: The Island Record Years

The Best of Richard & Linda Thompson: The Island Records Years is a 2000 compilation album of songs by Richard and Linda Thompson. Island Records issued this compilation as the first step in a program to re-master and re-issue the albums that Richard and Linda Thompson had cut for them. The tracks are drawn mostly from the duo's three albums for Island: I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight, Hokey Pokey and Pour Down Like Silver, though two tracks are taken from Richard Thompson's first solo album Henry the Human Fly; there is also an alternate recording of "A Heart Needs a Home" and a live version of "The Calvary Cross" with an extended guitar solo, both of which originally appeared on the 1976 compilation album. This compilation was released in the UK under the name The End of the Rainbow: An Introduction to Richard & Linda Thompson with an identical track listing and similar artwork. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bes...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)