Ian Anderson
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Are the touching tales of Jethro Tull’s Minstrel In The Gallery really just fiction?
By James McNair published
Ian Anderson reflects on giving Roy Harper his movie break, aggressively defending Dee Palmer from paparazzi intrusion, losing bassist Jeffrey Hammond, planning to quit touring – and the quiet couple of weeks he spent recording Tull’s masterful 1975 album

Ian Anderson: Jethro Tull’s one-legged hammy past and their potential stripped-down future
By James McNair published
Latest Jethro Tull album Curious Ruminant has Ian Anderson reflecting on his hammy stage performances of the past, working with William Shatner and Mikael Åkerfeldt, and how the band could have a back-to-basics future

Why Ian Anderson is leading Jethro Tull through a late career productivity burst
By Johnny Sharp published
Why Ian Anderson is keeping Jethro Tull on a prolifically productive roll

“We’d play cards on stage. Ian had no clue”: Ex Jethro Tull members share favourite moments
By Sid Smith published
Mick Abrahams, Clive Bunker, Jeffrey Hammond, Peter John Vettese and Tony Iommi recall what they learned from – or what they did to – band leader Ian Anderson

‘He said, ‘You can’t afford me!’” Steven Wilson isn’t on Opeth’s album. Ian Anderson is
By Rich Hobson published
Mikael Åkerfeldt and guitarist Fredrik Åkesson regret that people focus so much on one element of their sound, when there’s so much more to The Last Will And Testament

The eccentric prog icon who blew Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris’s mind
By Classic Rock published
The greatest ever songwriter to stand on one leg!

Why Opeth’s new concept album is no return to their death metal past
By Phil Weller published
Mikael Åkerfeldt insists his band’s new concept album, featuring Jethro Tull and Europe men, is no return to their death metal past – and won’t keep prog fans away

Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson looks back on his six solo albums
By Chris Roberts published
Between 1983 and 2014 he released a series of records that took him beyond the confines of Jethro Tull – for a variety of reasons and with a variety of results

“He tore the whole thing to shreds and was very unkind”: Jethro Tull’s War Child and 1974
By Malcolm Dome published
Their seventh studio album was the result of a failed attempt to make a movie – but the band leader believes many more significant things happened in the world of music that year
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