Stand Up (Jethro Tull album)

Stand Up
Cover art by James Grashow
Studio album by Jethro Tull
Released	25 July 1969
Recorded	17 April – 21 May 1969
Studio	Morgan, London Olympic, London
Genre	Hard rock folk rock blues rock
Length	37:48
Label	Island (UK) Reprise (US)
Producer	Terry Ellis and Ian Anderson
Jethro Tull chronology
This Was (1968) Stand Up (1969) Benefit (1970)
Singles from Stand Up
"Bourée" Released: 13 October 1969[1]

Stand Up, released in 1969, is the second studio album by British rock band Jethro Tull. It was the first Jethro Tull album to feature guitarist Martin Barre, who would go on to become the band's longtime guitarist until its initial dissolution in 2012. Before recording sessions for the album began, the band's original guitarist Mick Abrahams departed from the band as a result of musical differences with frontman and primary songwriter Ian Anderson; Abrahams wanted to stay with the blues rock sound of their 1968 debut, This Was, while Anderson wished to add other musical influences such as folk rock.^[2]

The album was released 25 July, and was No. 1 on the UK albums chart the following week, 3 August,^[3] following up on the success of the non-album single "Living in the Past", which had reached No. 3 in the UK singles chart on the day the album was released.^[4][5] The album was Jethro Tull's first success in the United States, reaching No. 20 on the Billboard 200.