“It was like being a reporter with a notebook going, ‘No! Wow!’ It was hilarious. We had all the fun but we didn’t have to go through the lifestyle”: Martin Barre on being serious with Jethro Tull while Led Zeppelin partied

Jethro Tull in 1969.

In 2019, the 50th anniversary of Jethro Tull’s trailblazing Stand Up presented the opportunity to look back at the band’s late 60s development. Guitarist Martin Barre told Prog how close he came to never being in the band – and explained what he took from the financial success the album gave him.

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