Friday on my Mind 251: Beggar’s Farm + Dear Jill. RIP Mick Abrahams
Posted in 1960s, Events dear boy. Events, Friday On My Mind, Jethro Tull, Music at 12:00 on 2 January 2026
Founder member of Jethro Tull, Mick Abrahams, died on 19/12/25. He only played on Tull’s first LP This Was before leaving the band due to wanting to pursue more in the line of the blues than flautist, singer and main songwriter Ian Anderson.
This, from that LP, is a song he co-wrote with Anderson.
Jethro Tull: Beggar’s Farm
Abrahams went on to form the unforgettably named Blodwyn Pig. Their first single was Dear Jill.
Blodwyn Pig: Dear Jill
Michael Timothy (Mick) Abrahams: 7/4/1943 – 19/12/2025. So it goes.
Tags: Friday On My Mind, Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull: Beggar's Farm, Mick Abrahams
Janusz
5 January 2026 at 06:18
I still have some PR material from the Chrysalis Agency, undated but c.1970.
Mick Abrahams Band is in the £100-£200 tier. Jethro Tull is “Over £1,000”.
Tull played on the same Hyde Park open-air concert bill as Pink Floyd in June 1968 but I have no recollection of their performance. Likewise the other acts on the bill: Tyrannosaurus Rex and Roy Harper. Conversely I have a vivid recollection of Floyd’s set.
jackdeighton
5 January 2026 at 19:40
Janusz,
Jethro Tull are playing Perth in April this year. I wonder what their fee is now. Undoubtedly well over £1000. But it’s 55 years on…..
(The tickets are £60 by the way – £52.50 or £47.50 for concessions.)