Chris Thompson was born in the United Kingdom, and raised in New Zealand. He became a professional musician in 1971, and moved back to England in 1973. He joined Manfred Mann's Earth Band in 1974. Since becoming a member of the band, Chris has sung on international hits such as Blinded By The Light, which reached No.1 in the U.S. and all around the world. The Earth Band spent from 1975-77 extensively touring America and Europe. In 1978 they released Watch, which featured Chris Thompson. The song Davy's On The Road Again reached the Top 5 in England and Germany. Watch has sold over 700,000 copies in Germany alone.

In 1979, Chris left The Earth Band to form "Night" a Los Angeles-based band, who enjoyed two Top 20 hits, "Hot Summer Nights" and "If You Remember Me", which was the title theme from the movie "The Champ". The group broke up in 1982 and Chris (who had still been doing session work with the Earth Band on a semi-regular basis), rejoined Manfred to finish the album Somewhere in Africa. After a successful European tour with The Earth Band to promote this album, Chris and drummer John Lingwood, produced a live album and video from Budapest, Hungary called Live in Budapest. Manfred Mann's Earth Band was the first western rock band to work in Budapest.

In 1983 Chris released his first solo album, Out Of The Night. He also worked extensively with ex Doobie Brother Patrick Simmons, both writing and singing on Patrick's solo album Arcade, which produced the Top 20 hit So Wrong.

In 1984 Manfred Mann's Earth Band had a Top 20 hit with The Runner on Arista Records.
Chris's second solo album, Radio Voices, featured Brian May and was released in 1985. Later he worked with Manfred Mann on Criminal Tango, and began working on another solo album The High Cost Of Living, which was released in 1986. It's Not Over, a song from this album featured in the film Playing For Keeps.

In 1989, the Wimbledon Tennis Championship brought about another success for Chris when he wrote and performed the official championship song The Challenge which became No.1 hit in Germany.
Another solo album, Beat of Love, was released in 1991. That same year, he had a Top Ten hit in Germany with The Joker, theme song from the television series Jolly Joker.

In 1992 Chris was extensively involved in the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert held at Wembley Stadium. He was responsible for rehearsing the band and all the artists that appeared : Annie Lennox, Roger Daltrey, Robert Plant, Paul Young, David Bowie, Lisa Stanfield, Seal, Elton John, Liza Minelli and George Michael . He was also in charge of additional vocals on the day. The following year Chris worked with Brian May on his first solo tour in South America.
In 1993 he made his debut with Alan Parsons on the album Try Anything Once. This was followed a few months later with an extensive tour in the U.S. This same year, Chris also performed at the charity concert for Children Under Siege in Los Angeles. In 1984 Chris sang the theme from the successful German TV series Florida Lady. This series also gave birth to a brand new recording of Blinded By The Light.

The 1995 Alan Parsons album The Very Best Live, features Chris Thompson, and the U.S. release includes a studio version of Chris performing You're The Voice (which he also performed as the finale of the World Liberty Concert in Holland in front of 120,000 people). This concert also featured Joe Cocker and UB 40.
In 1996 Chris completed a new Manfred Mann's Earth Band album entitled Soft Vengeance. The summer of that year saw a five month European tour to promote the album.

In 1997, Chris worked with Spike Edney on the first SAS Band album.
The SAS Band in it's first two years of existence, has featured many great artists including
Chaka Khan, Paul Rogers, Brian May, Mica Paris, Fish, Roger Chapman, Roger Taylor, Graham Gouldman, Curtis Stigers, Paul Young, Tony Hadley, Kiki Dee, Steve Lukather & John Deacon.

In 2000, Chris has signed an exclusive world-wide songwriters deal with Notting Hill Music in London. Notting Hill Music Inc. has also acquired the administration rights for the United States for Chris's back catalogue - CT Music Ltd. The CT catalogue includes his world-wide hit song 'You're the Voice' together with the songs Chris wrote for The Doobie Brothers, Michael Mc Donald, Heart, Isaac Hayes, Ray Charles and many more.

Chris's new home at Notting Hill Music London finds him in great company. They publish, among many others Will Smith, Paul Weller, Sir George Martin and Lisa Lopez (TLC). The early 2000's should be a fruitful songwritng time for Chris !!!!