Julie Tippetts has been on a long and varied artistic journey. As Julie Driscoll, she first gained exposure in the early 1960s singing in Steampacket alongside Rod Stewart and Long John Baldry. However, it was with Brian Auger And The Trinity and their Mellotron-drenched cover of Bob Dylan’s that she really came to public prominence in 1968. In the 1970s she became known to a different audience as Julie Tippetts after meeting her future husband and musical partner, pianist Keith Tippett, during the recording of , her first solo album. By then she had already stepped away from the hectic in 1975, described by Wyatt as a companion piece to his own .
