Dee Palmer

Dee Palmer (born David Palmer on July 2, 1937) is a British arranger and keyboardist best known for having been a member of the rock band Jethro Tull.

Palmer arranged string parts for Jethro Tull songs in the late 1960s and early 1970s, before joining the band formally in 1976, mainly playing keyboards. Palmer left the band in 1980 when frontman Ian Anderson took the group in an electronic direction. Palmer formed a new group, Tallis, with John Evan, a fellow Tull member who left at the same time. This proved not to be a commercial success and Palmer returned to film scoring and sessions.

In the 1980s and beyond, Palmer produced several albums of symphonic arrangements of 1970s rock bands performed by full orchestra. Bands so covered included Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes, The Beatles and Queen.

In 2004, Palmer announced having undergone sex reassignment surgery and changed her name to Dee.

Discography

Jethro Tull

• This Was (1968)
• Stand Up (1969)
• Thick as a Brick (1972)
• War Child (album) (1974)
• Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die! (1976)
• Songs from the Wood (1977)
• Heavy Horses (1978)
• Stormwatch (1979)

Symphonic arrangements

• A Classic Case, also known as Classic Jethro Tull (1986)
• We Know What We Like (Genesis) (1987)
• The Symphonic Music of Yes
• Music of Pink Floyd
• Orchestral Sgt. Pepper's (version of The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)

External links

• Biography at Jethro Tull official website
• Announcement of gender reassignment on Jethro Tull website
• Dee Palmer interview from Classic Rock Revisited