“He said, ‘Can I speak to Linda?’ And [my aunt] said ... until a few weeks into the relationship.” By the mid-1970s, Thompson felt constantly alarmed by Elvis’ drug use.

From his early days as part of the English folk-rockers Fairport Convention in the late 1960s, his work with then-wife Linda Thompson in the 1970s and early ‘80s and all the way through to his u ...