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Jethro had been fighting lymphoma for the previous two years, and subsequently contracted COVID-19 in the time leading up to his death. Hammond had not played an instrument since leaving the John Evan Band, and he was chosen more for his compatibility with the other band members than for his musical skills.

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also saw the release of Living in the Past, a double- album compilation of remixed singles, B-sides and outtakes, including the entirety of the Life Is a Long Song EP, which closed the album. The band continued to tour and in 1978 released a live double album, Bursting Out, which had been recorded during the European leg of the 1978 Heavy Horses tour. In 1988, 20 Years of Jethro Tull was released, a five-LP themed set which was also released as a three-CD set, and as a truncated single CD version on 20 Years of Jethro Tull: Highlights.The album contained the popular live song "Budapest", the longest song on the album at just over ten minutes, which depicted a backstage scene with a local female stagehand.

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The touring band included for the first time a female vocalist, Icelander Unnur Birna Björnsdóttir, who also played the violin. Drummer Clive Bunker quit the group in May 1971, [69] [70] citing heavy touring schedules and his wish to spend more time with his family, and was replaced by Barrie Barlow, whom Anderson renamed "Barriemore". He said that "Jethro" and "Geoff Rowe" were two entirely different people, and described himself as "a total recluse" off the stage; embarrassed when people recognised him in the street.The Gloucester Magnificat by John O’Hara was commissioned by the Friends of Gloucester Cathedral in 2016. Abrahams himself described his reasons more succinctly: "I was fed up with all the nonsense and I wanted to form a band like Blodwyn Pig. The first album of the 1980s was intended to be Anderson's first solo album, but after pressure from Chrysalis Records he agreed to release it as a Jethro Tull album. Abrahams had heard that Ellis wanted Anderson to be the frontman and group leader, at his expense, and he realised that he was unlikely to have the majority share in songwriting.

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The ensuing concert tour was well attended and the shows featured one of the group's last indulgences in theatricality, in which the stage was built to resemble a Viking longship and the band performed in medieval costume. In November 2013, Anderson announced that another new album, Homo Erraticus, ("The Wandering Man") would be released in April 2014.

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The video for "Lap of Luxury" was given moderate rotation on the newly influential MTV music video channel.

A couple of favourites emerged from the album: "Big Riff and Mando", a wry account of the theft of Barre's prized mandolin by a starstruck fan; and the upbeat "Another Christmas Song", which was re-recorded for the 2003 The Jethro Tull Christmas Album release. In an interview in 2006, Anderson said that he had not realised it was the name of "a dead guy who invented the seed drill – I thought our agent had made it up".