When Jethro Tull fired bassist Glenn Cornick in 1970 after a three-year stint, the band turned to an old friend to take over. Jeffrey Hammond would soon become known as Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond – a reference, he said, to the fact that his parents had the same surname before they’d met, and his mother refused to give up her maiden name.
That kind of quirkiness would be a trademark of his five years in Tull, during which time the band would release Aqualung, Thick As A Brick, A Passion Play, War Child and Minstrel In The Gallery – establishing Ian Anderson and co among the vanguard of progressive music.
