“In the beginning Man created God,” reads the back cover of Jethro Tull’s Aqualung. “And in the image of Man created he him.” The album came out 7 million days later, on March 19, 1971. We’d only ...
Happy birthday to Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson! The Scottish rocker/flautist turns 64 years old today (Aug. 10), so to celebrate we're digging up the dirt on one of his band's most famous hits -- ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bassist Glenn Cornick was fired while recording was in its early stages, to be replaced by Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond. Keyboardist ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Anderson explained in a 1999 interview with Guitar World, Aqualung wasn't originally meant to be a concept album, "although a ...
Inspired by The Beatles, Jethro Tull formed in the U.K. to write music and cashed in on sounds that progressive rock bands like Cream, Led Zeppelin and King Crimson were pioneering in the mid-to-late ...
Ian Anderson, the long-serving leader of England’s Jethro Tull, has never claimed to be clairvoyant. But with each passing year, the title of Tull’s 1976 album, “Too Old To Rock ’n’ Roll, Too Young To ...
The 10-track work closes with a cover of Jethro Tull 1971 classic “Aqualung,” from the album of the same name, which you can hear exclusively via UCR below. “‘Aqualung’ has always been one of my ...
Jethro Tull’s performance Saturday at the Greek Theatre, just two nights ahead of a stop at the much smaller City National Grove of Anaheim, answered one question and posed another. Ian Anderson’s ...
While countless groups from the classic rock era reunite for tours seemingly planned as nothing more than a cash grab and one more last chance to feel the love, Jethro Tull can be accused of neither.
The classic-rock world lost another of its members last month with the passing of Jethro Tull’s original bass player, Glen Cornick. They, alongside Deep Purple and Judas Priest, are one of what I ...
The '70s were a pretty great decade for amazing guitar solos, obviously: With legends like Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix and Brian May at the heights of their careers, how could it not have been? But ...
When I heard the title track from Kirk Windstein’s new solo album, Dream in Motion, I was all, “What makes this a Kirk Windstein solo endeavor and not just the latest offering from Crowbar?” I mean, ...