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Jethro Tull are an English rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1967. Initially playing blues rock, the band developed its sound to incorporate elements of British folk music and hard rock to forge a progressive rock signature. The band is led by vocalist/flautist/guitarist Ian Anderson, and featured a revolving door of lineups through the years including significant members such as longtime guitarist Martin Barre, keyboardist John Evan, drummers Clive Bunker, Barriemore Barlow, and Doane Perry, and bassists Glenn Cornick, Jeffrey Hammond, and Dave Pegg.
The group first achieved commercial success in 1969, with the folk-tinged blues album Stand Up, which reached No. 1 in the UK, and they toured regularly in the UK and the US. Their musical style shifted in the direction of progressive rock with the albums Aqualung (1971), Thick as a Brick (1972) and A Passion Play (1973), and shifted again to hard rock mixed with folk rock with Songs from the Wood (1977) and Heavy Horses (1978). Jethro Tull have sold an estimated 60 million albums worldwide, with 11 gold and five platinum albums among them. They have been described by Rolling Stone as 'one of the most commercially successful and eccentric progressive rock bands'.
The last works as a group to contain new material were released in 2003, though the band continued to tour until 2011. Though Anderson said Jethro Tull were finished in 2014, he announced a tour in September 2017 (without Barre or Perry) and a new studio album in 2018 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of their first, This Was (1968).
Members
Main article: List of Jethro Tull members
Current line-up
Ian Anderson – vocals, flute, acoustic guitar, other instruments (1967-2012, 2017–present)
John O'Hara – keyboards, accordion, vocals (2007-2012, 2017–present)
David Goodier – bass (2007-2012, 2017–present)
Florian Opahle – electric and acoustic guitars (2017–present)
Scott Hammond – drums (2017–present)
Previous musicians
Members
Mick Abrahams – guitar, vocals (1967–1968)
Glenn Cornick – bass guitar (1967–1970; died 2014)
Clive Bunker – drums, percussion (1967–1971)
Tony Iommi – guitar (1968)
John Evan – keyboards (1970–1980)
Jeffrey Hammond – bass, vocals (1971–1975)
Barriemore Barlow – drums, percussion (1971–1980)
John Glascock – bass, vocals (1975–1979; died 1979)
Dee Palmer – keyboards (1977–1980; also worked with the band as an arranger between 1967 and 1976)
Dave Pegg – bass, mandolin, vocals (1979–1995)
Mark Craney – drums (1980–1981; died 2005)
Peter-John Vettese – keyboards, vocoder (1982–1986; studio – 1989)
Gerry Conway – drums, percussion (1982; studio – 1987–1988)
Maartin Allcock – keyboards, guitar, mandolin (1988–1991)
Andrew Giddings – keyboards, accordion, bass (1991–2007)
Jonathan Noyce – bass, percussion (1995–2007)
Martin Barre – electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin, lute, flute (1968-2012)
Doane Perry – drums, percussion, vocals (1984-2012)
Guest musicians
David O'List – guitar (1968)
Tony Williams– bass (1978)
Eddie Jobson – keyboards, violin (1980–1981, 1985)
Phil Collins – drums (1982)
Paul Burgess – drums (1983)
Don Airey – keyboards (1987)
Matt Pegg – bass (1991, 1994)
Scott Hunter – drums (1991)
Dave Mattacks – drums, keyboards (1992)
Mark Parnell – drums (1994)[104]
Steve Bailey – bass (1995)
Lucia Micarelli – violin (2005–2006)
Anna Phoebe – violin (2006–2007, 2009)
Ann Marie Calhoun – violin (2006–2007)
James Duncan Anderson – drums (2007–2009)
Mark Mondesir – drums (2009)
Discography
Main article: Jethro Tull discography
Studio albums
This Was (1968)
Stand Up (1969)
Benefit (1970)
Aqualung (1971)
Thick as a Brick (1972)
A Passion Play (1973)
War Child (1974)
Minstrel in the Gallery (1975)
Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die! (1976)
Songs from the Wood (1977)
Heavy Horses (1978)
Stormwatch (1979)
A (1980)
The Broadsword and the Beast (1982)
Under Wraps (1984)
Crest of a Knave (1987)
Rock Island (1989)
Catfish Rising (1991)
Roots to Branches (1995)
J-Tull Dot Com (1999)
The Jethro Tull Christmas Album (2003)
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