Jeffrey Hammond joked in interviews that his mother defiantly chose to keep her maiden name, just like Eleanor Roosevelt.
10 Facts About Jeffrey Hammond
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One of several band members of Jethro Tull to originate from Blackpool, England, Jeffrey Hammond met the band's leader Ian Anderson in school when he was 17 years old, eventually joining a band with him and future band members John Evan and Barriemore Barlow.
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Jeffrey Hammond is mentioned in the lyrics of the Benefit track "Inside".
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Jeffrey Hammond is credited with naming the "claghorn", a hybrid instrument.
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Jeffrey Hammond narrated the surreal piece "The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles" on the album A Passion Play, and the related short film.
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Jeffrey Hammond received credit, along with Anderson and John Evan, for writing the piece.
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Jeffrey Hammond burned the suit in December 1975 upon his departure from the band.
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Jeffrey Hammond made one attempt to rejoin Jethro Tull in the mid-1980s, as told by Ian Anderson during Alan Freeman's Friday Rock Show in March 1988, while providing comments for the broadcast of Tull's show at Hammersmith Odeon which Capital Radio was airing.
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Jeffrey Hammond attended Jethro Tull's 25th anniversary reunion party in 1994.
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Jeffrey Hammond participated in an interview, along with Ian Anderson and Martin Barre, that was featured as a bonus track on the 1997 reissue of Thick as a Brick.