Thompson was born in
Bideford in
Devon, England. In the late 1970s, he wrote and published a punk rock
fanzine. In the 1980s, he was employed by
Richard Desmond's
Northern & Shell in the
London Docklands. He moved to the United States in 1989. Among many other music publications for which he has written are
Alternative Press and
Shindig!, Thompson's book
Black and White and Blue: Adult Cinema from the Victorian Age to the VCR was published in 2007 by
ECW Press. In March 2018, he published the book
The Incomplete Angler - Ten Years of Fruits de Mer, which chronicles the first ten years of British psychedelic folk record label
Fruits de Mer Records, along with an extensive discography of the company's output. ==References==