Martin Lancelot Barre (/bɑːr/; born 17 November 1946) is an English rock musician best known for his work with progressive rock band Jethro Tull, with whom he recorded and toured from their second album in 1969 to the band's dissolution in 2014. In early 1990's he initiated a solo career that now spawned four studio albums plus several guest appearances.
He has also played the flute and other instruments such as the mandolin, both on-stage for Jethro Tull and in his own solo work.
Early career
Martin Barre was born in Kings Heath, Birmingham, West Midlands, England on November 17, 1946. His father was an engineer who had wanted to play clarinet professionally. In grammar school Barre played flute. When Barre bought his first guitar his father gave him albums by Barney Kessel, Johnny Smith and Wes Montgomery to broaden his musical perspectives.
In college he studied architecture at Lanchester Polytechnic (now Coventry University) for three years, but did not complete his studies after failing Spanish and Atomic Science, subjects that he found to have little to do with designing buildings. After designing a road junction in Birmingham, England, he decided that a career in architecture was too boring, and switched to music.
Podcasts:
Martin Barre
ALBUMS
- Away With Words released: 2013
- Stage Left released: 2003
- A Trick of Memory released: 1994
- A Summer Band released:
- The Meeting released:
Away With Words
Released 2013- At First Light / Moths
- It's My Round / Requiem
- One Brown Mouse / Fatcat
- Air: Lament of the Spalpeen / Martin's Jim / Hymn 43
- All Bars Hold
- Pussy Willow
- Snapshot / Paparazzi
- Long Ago / Home
- Fire at Midnight / From the Ashes
- Protect and Survive
- Spare a Thought / From a Dead Beat to an Old Greaser
- Sundown
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Dream Of Eternity
by: From AshesThe last shadows
Are fading away
On this last day
I feel no pain
I saw the river of life
Sparkling like crystal
And the tree of eternity
In its green leaves
No more pain
No suffering
Oh, never anymore
Just an endless joy
In eternal light
Too many years
Too many tears
On the way
There is
Too many tears
All too many tears
Until I get there
The minutes passing by
I hear people cry
How long
It will take?
One night
I saw a dream
I was walking through a forest
I came to a lake
And in its surface I saw
Faces from my past passing by
Dear friends I saw
And I saw my old enemies
All of them had a place in my life
And all of them had their story to tell
A little later I stood beside a throne
Watching those people come and go
Some of them were singing
While the others were crying
Some of them went upwards
Some went downwards
Cold waves shivered my spine
As I realized where I was
Some time passed by
And one night again
I dreamed I was walking
Through that same forest again
This time the forest was
Filled with supernatural light
All was quiet and all was still
And then I came to a lake
In its surface
I saw a new kingdom
I saw my destination
I saw the river of life
Sparkling like crystal
I saw the Eternal One
Oh, won't you
Oh, won't you
Oh, won't you take me home
Oh, won't you take me home
Oh, won't you