Quote: "If you hang around long enough, you accumulate anniversaries. The longer you're on the planet, something comes out." British folk icon Richard Thompson refuses to dwell on his 2012 anniversaries - his first album is 40 years old this year and there are several landmarks coming up for his folk supergroup Fairfield Convention.
Fact: World War II buff Richard Thompson is in talks to score an ambitious new TV series about the first World War. The British folk icon became an in-demand composer after scoring 2005 documentary The Grizzly Man.