Jethro Tull
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“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.

Tonbridge Castle's Walled Garden Festival cancelled
By Jerry Ewing published
The festival's prog day was to feature Jethro Tull, Lifesigns, Mostly Autumn and Bruce Soord

"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

“It was a feeling of betrayal – they buy your record then come to a concert and whistle and hoot and screech… it all felt quite vulgar”: The time Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson nearly quit music
By Paul Elliott published
The band's rise to fame wasn't without its downsides

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 announce The Seven Decades UK tour
By Fraser Lewry published
Jethro Tull will play 11 UK shows next Spring, as Ian Anderson warns front row ticket holders to be wary of "flute spit"

Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick: the 40 minute song Ian Anderson wrote as a joke
By Rob Hughes published
At a critical and commercial peak after Aqualung, Tull frontman Ian Anderson created an album that split one epic track over two sides - parodying prog and rock poetry

Ian Anderson fell down a rabbit hole that led to Valhalla: he emerged with a new Jethro Tull album
By Dave Everley published
The second new Jethro Tull album in two years, Rökflöte, explores Ragnarök, the Norse interpretation of the apocalypse. So we spoke to Ian Anderson about the end of the world
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