That she would do things like like Marat/Sade – she'd step outside of her genre, she’d do a Stephen Sondheim song. She's one of the first people to do a Joni Mitchell song on a record. 'She was the first person to do a Leonard Cohen song. “I always thought that she had the best taste of anyone,' said Thompson. Thompson says he ranks Tanglewood among the best venues in the country, and he’s excited to perform with longtime friend and inspiration Judy Collins there on Sunday. I was trying to find things in the song to reinforce the song’s positive qualities as I saw them.” I just thought it was interesting to do a version that was almost juxtaposed to her version of it, it was like the opposite. And I thought the song stood up on its own merits as a good popular song. You know, when I did the song, ‘Oops I did It Again,’ it was really disconnected from Britney as a person. And then having that the situation with her father, I think it's really tragic and I do feel sorry for her. And that's a lot of pressure right there. 'I think she came out of the Disney talent pool and was a child star and grew up with all of that. “She’s someone I really feel sorry for,' he told WAMC. So yeah, hockey’s the one for me.”įor his 2003 album “1000 Years of Popular Music,” Thompson covered Britney Spears’s 2000 hit “Oops, I Did It Again.” With the popstar’s controversial conservatorship in the headlines, Thompson reflected on his musical relationship with Spears – once a neighbor in Los Angeles. If you grew up with rugby, than American football seems a bit strange. When you grow up with cricket, then baseball seems kind of weird.

So that's the only North American sport that I really associate with. And I saw the Kings win two Stanley Cups, which is fantastic. 'While I was living in Los Angeles, I had season tickets to the LA Kings and I saw a lot of games. sport over his many years living in the states. You turn a corner and you find yourself in an episode of ‘The Sopranos.’”Ī cricket fan, Thompson says he’s only warmed up to one U.S. You can be walking down the street on a nice sunny day, and everything's just pleasant. So you know, it's a state where you’re not quite sure what it is you're going to get. It’s where the mobsters seem to hang out. And about two miles from where I live is kind of Mafia Central, really. Then you've got the New Jersey Turnpike, which is just utterly ugly. I mean, the lakes are extremely beautiful. I mean, that there's beautiful parks in New Jersey. “I live in a comparatively leafy sort of suburb, where there's a lot of writers, lots of artists, musicians, etcetera,' he told WAMC. Now a resident of Montclair, New Jersey, he says he’s taking to his new surroundings.

London-born Thompson, 72, is a recent transplant to the East Coast after spending decades in California.

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