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“The day I ask the audience to sing my songs I might as well go home. It’s hard enough for trained singers, let alone an audience who will massacre it”: How Ian Anderson refined Jethro Tull stage shows
By Johnny Sharp published
He took a long hard look at his production values when The Broadsword And The Beast was first released in 1982

Jethro Tull share suitably lupine new video for Wolf Unchained
By Jerry Ewing published
Prog legends Jethro Tull released their brand new album RökFlöte in April

"Christmas is overlaid onto the winter solstice, and that nods towards our pagan past.” Why Christmas is prog's favourite time of the year...
By Malcolm Dome published
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat… And out roll the usual suspects trying to crack the festive Top 40. Still, it isn’t all about Slade, The Snowman and Sir Cliff. Prog rockers seem to enjoy Christmas more than most...

Jethro Tull release alternative mixes of latest album RökFlöte
By Jerry Ewing published
Bruce Soord's alternative mixes of Jethro Tull's RökFlöte are now available on all streaming services

“It was a finished product, called A for Anderson, intended as a solo record. Then the record company heard it." The story of Jethro Tull and A
By Johnny Sharp published
When 1980's A came out it featured a new Jethro Tull line-up, a new sound and songs about the threat of nuclear war and terrorism. Not everyone was impressed.

"I’d seen this wild-eyed, crazy-haired guy and my parents were horrified!" Marc Almond's lifelong passion for Jethro Tull and Ian Anderson
By Jo Kendall published
Soft Cell singer cherishes memory of performing Thick As A Brick with the man who wrote it

Jethro Tull announce 40th anniversary reissue of The Broadsword And The Beast
By Jerry Ewing published
Jethro Tull will reissue fourteenth studio album, 1982's The Broadsword And The Beast, in September

Jethro Tull - RökFlöte: "resounds with personality, meaning and drama."
By Sid Smith published
Not yet ratedIan Anderson draws on Viking mythology on the follow-up to The Zealot Gene – but no one’s living in the past on Tull’s 23rd album.

Jethro Tull legend Ian Anderson says Motörhead and Mötley Crüe are misappropriating umlauts: "it ought to make you either laugh or get angry"
By Merlin Alderslade published
Jethro Tull will be using the umlaut properly for new album RökFlöte - unlike some certain rock and metal legends
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