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Dee Palmer (born David Palmer on July 2, 1937) is a British arranger and keyboardist best known for having been a member of 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. Palmer formed a new group, Tallis, with John Evan, a fellow Tull member who left at the same time. This proved not to be a commercial success and Palmer returned to film scoring and sessions.

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

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

Discography

Jethro Tull

Too Old to Rock 'n' 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)

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