The chief sell of What We Did Instead of Holidays is to amalgamate the primary threads of all those different lives and careers into a well-told, well-paced whole that carries the story from the mid-60s beginnings through to tumultuous divorce tour of Richard and Linda Thompson in 1982… It’s very well told – Heylin is a past master at this kind of tale – and it’s a remarkable story, warts and all.
