Rock history is littered with the guitarists who left before their bands exploded. Mick Abrahams – who died on 19 December aged 82, following years of ill health – was only with British prog giants Jethro Tull for 1968’s debut, This Was.
Yet his lyrical blues playing left a vital mark, while the guitarist escaped footnote status by immediately founding a second notable outfit, Blodwyn Pig, whose powerful, roots-melding albums twice visited the UK’s Top 10 at the turn of that decade.
