Dee Palmer (born David Palmer in 1937) is a British arranger and keyboardist best known for her membership in the rock band Jethro Tull.

Palmer arranged string parts for Jethro Tull songs in the early 1970s before joining the band formally in 1976, mainly playing keyboards. She left the band in 1980 when frontman Ian Anderson took the group in an electronic direction.

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

In 2004, Palmer announced that she had undergone sexual reassignment surgery and had changed her name to Dee.

Discography

Jethro Tull

• Too Old to Rock And Roll, Too Young to Die (1976)
• Songs from the Wood (1977)
• Heavy Horses (1978)
• Stormwatch (1979)

Symphonic arrangements

• A Classic Case a.k.a. 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 link

Announcement of gender reassignment on Jethro Tull website (http://www.j-tull.com/news/deepalmer.cfm)