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Apr 16, 2021 · By the time of 1980’s A, Jethro Tull ’s remarkable run of globe-straddling success had peaked. It was their first album not to make the US Top 20 since their 1968 debut, and in a Britain dazzled by Tubeway Army and The Pretenders, Tull were suddenly the oldest of hats. A wasn’t even supposed to be a Jethro Tull album.
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Oct 19, 2020 · The Untold Truth Of Jethro Tull. It is one of the most notorious incidents in the history of music awards. In fact, it is one of the most notorious incidents in the history of awards in general, one that never fails to raise a titter from those who hear or recall it. Back in 1989, the music industry was going through some big changes in terms ...
Apr 16, 2021 · Out today: Jethro Tull's A - one original album lovingly expanded to three CDs and three DVDs Jethro Tull embraced the zeitgeist on A. How does it stack up 40 years on?
Jul 25, 2024 · Luke Edwards. 25 July 2024. Masterminded by the charismatic frontman Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull’s second album, Stand Up, saw the British rock group turn over a new leaf by cross-pollinating their bluesy sound with an enchanted forest of new ideas. Blending the verdancy of the blues with breezy folk and airy classical music, and playing it all ...
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No-one sounds like Jethro Tull. For a band that have prospered for almost as long as some of the genres they occupy have existed, they are without imitators. Their twenty-one studio records have taken in English folk and baroque instrumentation, plus the thunderous and unforgettable riffs of Martin Barre that saw them edge Metallica and AC/DC out o...
Anderson is too skilled an artist to produce music devoid of merit, but Under Wraps with its remote electronica and themes of paranoia in the Cold War, would perhaps have worked better as a follow-up to his solo record, Walk Into Light.
As ever with Anderson there are some lovely songs on a record he wrote in part of the Isle of Skye. The title track is a study of isolation, Strange Avenues, according to Andersons liner notes, a sequel to the Aqualung setting. Kissing Willie was less subtle though, and came with a Storm Thorgerson video based on Benny Hill that Anderson went along...
A kind of chaos, and some heartbreak, surrounded A, an album originally planned as an Anderson solo release. The death of bassist John Glascock and the subsequent depression and departure of Barriemore Barlow changed Tull radically. On the cover of A, they are clad in white jumpsuits, free of their past, and the music is similarly stripped back, Ed...
Roots To Branches is to a degree anomalous, mixing standard motifs of Barres fluent, head-tossing riffs and Andersons percussive flute-playing with some Eastern influences drawn from a trip the singer made to India. He felt that the songs echoed some of Tulls earliest work on Stand Up Maybe so, but it was unprecedented in the bands late era, and ma...
There are parts of Minstrel, especially in the near 20-minute Baker Street Muse and Cold Wind In Valhalla, that are the equal of the songs on Aqualung or Thick As A Brick, Andersons beautiful acoustic playing (especially on Requiem) a perfect match for Barres ferocious electric, but there is some wibble too, the band in the grip of a release schedu...
Benefit was the sound of a band finding its future. Anderson and Barre nailed their electric-acoustic interplay on songs like Son, and Anderson was quickly emerging as a composer of some originality. The great trick was incorporating Barres gift for memorable riffs and hooks into his delicate melodies - once theyd done so the Tull sound was establi...
Typically offbeat and funny, Too Old To Rock n Roll describes the life of Andersons alter ego, Ray Lomas, a washed-up former rock star. Lomas wins some money on a quiz show but finds life has changed so much he cant enjoy it. Resolving to kill himself on his motorbike, he instead ends up in a coma and when he re-emerges finds that he and everything...
It begins with a tramp sitting on a park bench watching as the frilly panties run and ends with a meditation on the nature of God Tull in a nutshell, really. Aqualung is high on ambition and sardonic rage. The first half introduces Aqualung the tramp, eying little girls with bad intent and Cross-Eyed Mary, the good-time girl who will do it for a s...
Nov 20, 2016 · Released in the summer of 1969, this ‘zeitgeist’ collection captured the rapidly changing and evolving tempo of the ‘60s’ quickly reaching the summit of the U.K. albums charts and going on to earn gold certification in the U.S. Stand Up, the follow up to 1968’s This Was Jethro Tull, saw both the addition of guitarist Martin Barre and ...
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Jan 26, 2022 · 23. 'Rock Island' (1989) Jethro Tull had commercial momentum in the late '80s, having won the Grammys' Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance for 1987's Crest of a Knave – even if 90 percent of ...
