Jethro Tull
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Ten-disc Ian Anderson solo box set to be released in August
By Jerry Ewing published
8314 Boxed collects all of Ian Anderson solo alums plus a disc of unreleased live material

Jethro Tull's Bursting Out (Inflated Edition) finds them in fine form
By Hugh Fielder published
Jethro Tull's 1978 live double album, newly pumped up

When audience members attack: Six times a rock star was injured by someone in the crowd
By Fraser Lewry last updated
Musicians should always feel safe onstage: sometimes, they're clearly not - and people need to stop throwing stuff

Obsessive attention to detail has always been Eddie Jobson’s superpower
By Sid Smith published
From a backstage performance for Curved Air to being dragged onstage by Frank Zappa and out-complicating King Crimson, the UK violinist has managed to ignore distractions from making music

"Somebody has to be the kind of songwriter who doesn’t give a shit if he gets called pretentious." Ian Anderson on the inspiration behind Jethro Tull's RökFlöte
By James McNair published
After a gap of more than 20 years, Jethro Tull returned with their second album of new material this decade. RökFlöte finds the band exploring Norse mythology with a harder edge than last year’s The Zealot Gene

Why Ian Anderson kept up the silly and sarcastic on solo album Homo Erraticus
By Paul Sexton published
2014 title featured another outing for Gerald Bostock, and indulged the band leader’s passion for being an “amateur flute player”

How Jethro Tull broke America is the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!
By Jerry Ewing published
Plus Van der Graaf Generator, Gentle Giant, Devin Townsend, Rick Wakeman, Big Big Train

Jethro Tull reissue 1978 live album Bursting Out as new six-disc set
By Jerry Ewing published
Jethro Tull's three CD/three DVD reissue of Bursting Out will be released in June

The manager said, ‘Ian Anderson and the boys don’t want you in the band so you’ve been fired.’ I replied, ‘How can you fire me when I quit three weeks ago?’” Mick Abrahams’ life after Jethro Tull
By Malcolm Dome published
Health issues have made it almost impossible for Blodwyn Pig founder to play guitar – but he maintains ”it could be worse”

"Things were gloriously easy back in 1969 because we only had two albums. Things are now much more tortuous": Ian Anderson on touring, bedbugs and Martin Barre
By Dave Ling published
Jethro Tull are about to play 10 UK shows, and band leader Ian Anderson is hitting the rails rather than the road
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