Martin Barre, 77, was lead guitarist of Jethro Tull from 1968 to 2011, selling more than 60 million albums. Seven singles and 25 albums (including their 1969 Number 1 Stand Up) reached the UK Top 40. As well as solo albums, Barre has shared the stage with Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, Jimi Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. He still plays in a band and lives in the South Hams, Devon with his wife Julie. We’ve lived in Devon for 50 years and this is our second house here. In the 1970s I got married and we lived in a Georgian house near Marlow, Buckinghamshire for four years. I wanted to start a new home and we started looking in Devon because I knew the area. People were so welcoming. Some people thought we were mad: there were no supermarkets, cinemas or restaurants. We bought a beautiful Elizabethan farmhouse that was derelict when the family before us bought it. It had lots of land and we fell in love with it. We were there 35 years then realised it was going to suck us dry, so moved. Now in the South Hams, a bit closer to Plymouth and...