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== Discography == === Studio albums === {| class="wikitable" |- ! rowspan=2| Year ! rowspan=2| Album ! Peak chart positions |- ! <small>[[UK Albums Chart|UK]]</small> <br /><ref name="Official Charts">{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/3063/john-martyn/ |title=JOHN MARTYN full Official Chart History |website=[[Official Charts Company|Official Charts]] |access-date=23 January 2021}}</ref><ref>''Some People Are Crazy β the John Martyn Story'' β John Neil Munro (Polygon 2007)</ref> |- | 1967 | '''''[[London Conversation]]''''' * Released: October 1967 * Label: Island <small>(ILPS 952)</small> | align=center| - |- | 1968 | '''''[[The Tumbler]]''''' * Released: December 1968 * Label: Island <small>(ILPS 9091)</small> | align=center| - |- | 1970 | '''''[[Stormbringer!]]'' (with [[Beverley Martyn]])''' * Released: February 1970 * Label: Island <small>(ILPS 9113)</small> | align=center| - |- | 1970 | '''''[[The Road to Ruin (John and Beverley Martyn album)|The Road to Ruin]]'' (with [[Beverley Martyn]])''' * Released: November 1970 * Label: Island <small>(ILPS 9133)</small> | align=center| - |- | 1971 | '''''[[Bless the Weather]]''''' * Released: November 1971 * Label: Island <small>(ILPS 9167)</small> | align=center| - |- | 1973 | '''''[[Solid Air]]''''' * Released: February 1973 * Label: Island <small>(ILPS 9226)</small> | align=center| - |- | 1973 | '''''[[Inside Out (John Martyn album)|Inside Out]]''''' * Released: October 1973 * Label: Island <small>(ILPS 9253)</small> | align=center| - |- | 1975 | '''''[[Sunday's Child]]''''' * Released: 28 January 1975 * Label: Island <small>(ILPS 9296)</small> | align=center| - |- | 1977 | '''''[[One World (John Martyn album)|One World]]''''' * Released: 4 November 1977 * Label: Island <small>(ILPS/ZCI 9492)</small> | align=center| 54 |- | 1980 | '''''[[Grace and Danger]]''''' * Released: 13 October 1980 * Label: Island <small>(ILPS/ZCI 9560)</small> | align="center" | 54 |- | 1981 | '''''[[Glorious Fool]]''''' * Released: September 1981 * Label: WEA <small>(WEA K/K4 99178)</small> | align="center" | 25 |- | 1982 | '''''[[Well Kept Secret (John Martyn album)|Well Kept Secret]]''''' * Released: August 1982 * Label: WEA <small>(WEA K/K4 99255)</small> | align="center" | 20 |- | 1984 | '''''[[Sapphire (John Martyn album)|Sapphire]]''''' * Released: November 1984 * Label: Island <small>(ILPS/ICT 9779)</small> | align="center" | 57 |- | 1986 | '''''[[Piece by Piece (John Martyn album)|Piece by Piece]]''''' * Released: February 1986 * Label: Island <small>(ILPS/ICTCID 9807)</small> | align="center" | 28 |- | 1990 | '''''[[The Apprentice (album)|The Apprentice]]''''' * Released: March 1990 * Label: Permanent Records <small>(PERM CD/MC/LP 1)</small> | align="center" | - |- | 1991 | '''''[[Cooltide]]''''' * Released: November 1991 * Label: Permanent Records <small>(PERM CD/MC/LP 4)</small> | align="center" | - |- | 1992 | '''''Couldn't Love You More''''' * Released: August 1992 * Label: Permanent Records <small>(PERM CD/MC/LP 9)</small> | align="center" | 65 |- | 1993 | '''''No Little Boy''''' * Released: July 1993 * Label: Permanent Records <small>(PERM CD/MC 14)</small> | align="center" | - |- | 1996 | '''''[[And (John Martyn album)|And]]''''' * Released: August 1996 * Label: Go! Discs <small>(828798-2/-4)</small> | align="center" | 32 |- | 1998 | '''''[[The Church with One Bell]]''''' * Released: 23 March 1998 * Label: Independiente <small>(ISOM 3CD)</small> | align="center" | 51 |- | 2000 | '''''[[Glasgow Walker]]''''' * Released: May 2000 * Label: Independiente <small>(ISOM 15CD)</small> | align="center" | 66 |- | 2004 | '''''[[On the Cobbles]]''''' * Released: 26 April 2004 * Label: Independiente <small>(ISOM 43CD)</small> | align="center" | 95 |- | 2011 | '''''[[Heaven and Earth (John Martyn album)|Heaven and Earth]]''''' * Released: 16 May 2011 * Label: Hole in the Rain <small>(LSM4010)</small> | align="center" | 51 |- ! scope="row" colspan="4" style="text-align:center"| "-" denotes a release that did not chart. Note: the 2009 reissue of Solid Air reached 88 in the UK chart. |} === Live albums === * ''[[Live at Leeds (John Martyn album)|Live at Leeds]]'' (September 1975) * ''Philentropy'' (November 1983) * ''Foundations'' (October 1987) *''BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert'' (May 1992) *''Live'' (July 1995) *''The New York Session'' (November 2000) *''Germany 1986'' (July 2001; with [[Danny Thompson]]) *''The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal 1986'' (August 2001) (with [[Danny Thompson]]) *''Live at the Town & Country Club, 1986; Collectors Series 2'' (August 2001) *''Sweet Certain Surprise'' (live in New York, 1977) (October 2001) *''Live at the Bottom Line, New York, 1983; Collectors Series 3'' (November 2001) *''Live in Milan, 1979; Collectors Series 4'' (May 2002) *''And Live'' (June 2003) (recorded in 1996) *''Live in Concert at the Cambridge Folk Festival'' BBC 1985 (December 2003) *''Classics Live'' (November 2004)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Classics Live (2004)|url=https://www.johnmartyn.com/2000s/classics-live/|date=26 April 2013|website=Johnmartyn.com}}</ref> *''Live in Nottingham 1976'' (May 2005) *''On Air'' (Bremen Town Hall, Germany, September 1975) (May 2006) *''In Session'' (August 2006) (BBC sessions, recorded for [[John Peel]] and [[Bob Harris (radio)|Bob Harris]], between 1973 and 1978) *''Live at The Roundhouse'' (May 2007) *''BBC Live in Concert'' (June 2007) *''The Battle of Medway: 17 July 1973'' (November 2007) *''The Simmer Dim'' (Garrison Theatre, Lerwick, August 1980) (June 2008) *''The July Wakes'' (July Wakes Festival, Chorley, Lancs, July 1976) (October 2008) *''Live at Leeds'' (2010) (deluxe 2 CD reissue) *''Live at the Hanging Lamp'' (Richmond, London, May 1972) (2013) (vinyl-only release) === Compilation albums === *''[[So Far So Good (John Martyn album)|So Far So Good]]'' (March 1977) *''[[The Electric John Martyn]]'' (October 1982) *''Sweet Little Mysteries: The Island Anthology'' (June 1994) *''The Hidden Years'' (December 1996) *''The Very Best Of'' (April 1997) *''Serendipity β An Introduction to John Martyn'' (1998) *''Another World; Collectors Series Vol 1'' (1998) *''Classics'' (March 2000) *''The Best of Live '91'' (July 2000) *''Solid Air β Classics Re-visited'' (September 2002) (compilation of previously released tracks) *''Late Night John'' (May 2004) *Mad Dog Days (June 2004) *''Anthology'' (September 2004) *''The John Martyn Story'' (May 2006) *''One World Sampler'' (November 2006) *''Sixty Minutes With'' (April 2007) *''[[Ain't No Saint]]'' (September 2008) (40-year anthology) *''May You Never β The Very Best Of'' (March 2009) *''Remembering John Martyn'' (June 2012) *''Sweet Little Mystery: The Essential'' (September 2013) *''The Island Years'' (September 2013) (18 disc box set) *''The Best of the Island Years'' (November 2014) *''May You Never: The Essential John Martyn'' (November 2016) (3 Disc Compilation) *''Head and Heart: The Acoustic John Martyn'' (June 2017) === Tribute albums === * ''Johnny Boy Would Love This'' (August 2011) === Singles === * "John the Baptist" / "The Ocean" ([[Island Records|Island]] WIP 6076, January 1970) * "Anni Part 1" / "Anni Part 2" (with [[John Stevens (drummer)|John Stevens]]' Away) ([[Vertigo Records|Vertigo]] 6059 140, 1976) * "Over the Hill" / "Head and Heart" (Island WIP 6385, February 1977) * "Dancing" / "Dealer" (version) (Island WIP 6414, January 1978) * "In Search of Anna" / "Certain Surprise" (Island K7450, 1979) * "Johnny Too Bad" / "Johnny Too Bad" (version) Island WIP 6547, October 1980) * "Johnny Too Bad" (extended dub version) / "Big Muff" (extended remix) (Island IPR 2047, March 1981) * "Sweet Little Mystery" / "Johnny Too Bad" (Island WIP 6718, June 1981) * "Please Fall in Love with Me" / "Don't You Go" ([[Warner Music Group|WEA]] K 79243, August 1981) * "Hiss on the Tape" / "Livin' Alone" (WEA K 79336, October 1982) * "Gun Money" (U.S. remix) / "Hiss on the Tape" (live) (WEA 259987-7, November 1982) * "Over the Rainbow" / "Rope Soul'd" (Island IS 209, October 1984) * "Angeline" / "Tight Connection to My Heart" (Island IS 265, February 1986)<ref>Angeline was the world's first ever CD single, released in 1986</ref> * "Classic John Martyn" (Island CID 265, February 1986) * "Angeline" / "Tight Connection to My Heart" / "May You Never" / "Certain Surprise" / "One Day Without You" (Island 12 IS 265, February 1986) * "Lonely Love" / "Sweet Little Mystery" (live) (Island IS 272, October 1986) * "Send Me One Line" / "Patterns in the Rain" (Hypertension HYS 100 102, May 1990) * "Deny This Love" (remix) / "The Apprentice" (live) (Permanent S12, August 1990, 7-inch vinyl) * "Deny This Love" (remix) / "The Apprentice" (live) / "Deny This Love" (album version) (Permanent CD Perm 1, August 1990) * "Jack the Lad" / "Annie Sez" / "The Cure" / "Jack Sez" (Permanent CD Perm 3, April 1992) * "Sweet Little Mystery" / "Head and Heart" (Permanent, Perm 6, September 1982) * "Lonely Love" / "May You Never" (Permanent, Perm 8, December 1992) * "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" ([[Voiceprint Records|Voiceprint]], JMCD001, 1998) * "Excuse Me Mister" / "God Song" (live) / "Rock, Salt & Nails" (live) / "John Wayne" (live) ([[Independiente (record label)|Independiente]], ISOM14MS CD, May 1998) * "Deliver Me" (with [[Sister Bliss]]) ([[Multiply Records]], CDMULTY72, March 2001) === DVD/video === *''John Martyn in Vision 1973β81'' (1982) *''Live from London'' (Camden Palace, 1984) *''Foundations: Live at The Town and Country Club'' (recorded 1986, released 1988) *''The Apprentice Tour'' (August 1990) *''Purely Music'' (January 1992) (released on [[LaserDisc]]) *''Tell Them I'm Somebody Else'' (2000) *''Live in Concert'' (John Martyn & Band at Camden Palace Theatre, London, 23 November 1984) (2001) (DVD release of 1986 ''Live from London''; re-issued ''Live at the Camden Palace Theatre London 1984'' (2004) & ''Live from the Camden Palace'' (2012)) *''Live in Dublin'' (with Danny Thompson at Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, for RTE TV, Ireland, June 1986) (February 2005) *''John Martyn at the BBC'' (various 1973β1982) (August 2006) *''The Apprentice in Concert'' (John Martyn & Band with Dave Gilmour at Shaw Theatre, London, 31 March 1990) (2006) (DVD release of 1990 ''The Apprentice Tour'') *''Empty Ceiling'' (John Martyn & Band recorded for Ohne Filter, German TV, April 1986) (November 2006) *''Solid Air Live at The Roundhouse'' (John Martyn & Band in London, 3 February 2007) (May 2007) *''The Man Upstairs'' (John Martyn (solo) recorded for Rockpalast, German TV, 17 March 1978) (April 2008) *''One World One John'' (John Martyn & Band recorded mostly at Vicar Street, Dublin in 1999, 2000 & 2003) (February 2012)
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