Minstrel in the Gallery is the eighth studio album by British rock band Jethro Tull, released in September 1975. The album sees the band going in a previous direction from their previous work "War Child" (1974), returning to a blend of electric and acoustic songs, in a manner closer to their early '70s albums such as "Benefit" (1970), "Aqualung" (1971) and "Thick as a Brick" (1972). Making use of a newly constructed mobile recording studio commissioned and constructed specifically for the band, the album was the first Jethro Tull album to be recorded outside of the UK, being recorded in tax exile in Monte Carlo, Monaco.