Richard Thompson was a founding member of the seminal British folk-rock group Fairport Convention, but by the start of the 1970s the songs he was writing were clearly going in a different direction from the rest of the group, which was moving towards more traditional English folk music.  So in 1972 Thompson embarked on his solo career with his first album, "Henry the Human Fly," which has the distinction of being the worst selling album in the history of Warner Bros. Records.