Jethro Tull’s 1975 album Minstrel In The Gallery has been sonically upgraded to a 5.1 surround mix by Steven Wilson, as well as expanded with rare and unreleased studio outtakes and BBC radio and recordings in the 40th anniversary “La Grande Edition” on the Parlophone label.

Minstrel In The Gallery was Jethro Tull’s eighth studio album and its sixth gold record, a top ten hit in the US. It was the final Tull record to feature the classic lineup of Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, John Evans, Barrie Barlow and Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond.

Like the other WEA deluxe Tull sets, this one comes in a case-bound 2X CD, 2X DVD book with an 80-page booklet featuring an extensive history of the album, track-by-track annotations by Ian Anderson, an essay about the Minstrel tour by roadie Kenny Wylie, memories from the studio engineer of the studio in Monaco where the album was recorded, some observations from one of the touring string section members and plenty of photographs.

Additionally a new stereo remix of Minstrel In The Gallery will be released on a single CD, digitally and on 180-gram vinyl as a limited edition pressing.

“La Grande Edition” features a live recording of the band performing at the Olympia in Paris on July 5, 1975 mixed to 5.1 and stereo by King Crimson guitarist Jakko Jakszyk. Interestingly, parts of Minstrel—one of the harder rocking albums in the Jethro Tull discography—often sound very much like later period King Crimson.

Below, nine-minutes of previously unseen footage from Paris, 1975