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David West

“I said, ‘Just start again. It would be good for you.’ He persuaded me to stay. I never felt good about it”: Martin Barre tried to quit Jethro Tull in 1980, but Ian Anderson wouldn’t have it

Jethro Tull In Concert At The Royal Festival Hall, London, Britain - 28 May 2008, Jethro Tull - Ian Anderson And Martin Barre (Photo by Brian Rasic/Getty Images).

The musical partnership of Ian Anderson and Martin Barre in Jethro Tull ended around 2012 when the band leader decided to go in a different direction. Guitarist Barre recently told Prog that he’d tried to leave the band in 1980 – and although Anderson talked him into staying on, things were never quite the same again.


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