{"id":6584,"date":"2025-12-24T18:35:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=6584"},"modified":"2025-12-24T18:35:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:35:49","slug":"jethro-tull-founding-member-mick-abrahams-dies-aged-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=6584","title":{"rendered":"Jethro Tull founding member Mick Abrahams dies aged 82"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mick Abrahams, a founding member of rock band Jethro Tull, has died at the age of 82.<\/p>\n

Posting on the band’s official website<\/a>, lead singer Ian Anderson said he was sorry to hear of the death of the “strong vocalist and experienced, powerful and lyrical guitarist”.<\/p>\n

He said Luton-born Abrahams had “endured worsening ill health for the last 15 years, leaving him finally unable to perform”.<\/p>\n

Anderson said Abrahams was “vitally important” to the band’s early line-up and developed his musical ideas into a “tour de force display of his instrumental talents for the rest of his performing days”. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jethro Tull were formed “out of the ashes” of The John Evan Band and McGregor’s Engine, the blues band Abrahams formed with Clive Bunker in the Luton\/Dunstable area, said Anderson.<\/p>\n

Abrahams<\/a> played on Tull’s first album, This Was, but left shortly after it was finished, and went on to found another successful band, Blodwyn Pig.<\/p>\n

After pursuing a solo career between 1971 and 2017, he retired from performing following a stroke. <\/p>\n

Anderson described him as a “homebody” who “liked to gig around the home counties”. <\/p>\n

He said: “We all offer our condolences to Mick’s family and close friends, who can feel justifiably proud of his achievements and musical legacy.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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