Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson is still immensely proud of the band’s most famous album — even if he hates the painting on the album’s cover. That album is of course Aqualung, released in 1971. In ...

Not ones for living in the past, Jethro Tull are back with their 24th album – and third in three years – Curious Ruminant. It finds frontman Ian Anderson embracing his love of sci-fi and ...

and on “a slippery slope to inevitable death”, Ian Anderson looks and sounds in remarkably fine fettle. And creatively, he and Jethro Tull, the band with which he will forever be synonymous ...

“I think we all knew instinctively that Aqualung was going to be an important album,” Ian Anderson tells Classic Rock of Jethro Tull's 1971 hit album. “It would either be the next step up or ...

So from The Secret Language Of Birds on, I was increasingly doing things as Ian Anderson.” Emerging just before The Jethro Tull Christmas Album, the closing track here – Birthday Card At ...

Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull performs on stage at the Wembley Empire Pool in London, on June 22, 1973 “It was important to get a driving relentless feel to the track,” he extends.

Jethro Tull singer and flutist Ian Anderson makes a guest appearance on Opeth’s new song “§4.” The track – featured on Opeth’s new album, The Last Will and Testament – runs more than ...

“Anything to do with Jethro Tull and Ian Anderson was automatically of a very high standard,” said Minstrel violinist and long-term collaborator Patrick Halling in 2012. And in February ...

What if Jethro Tull never turned prog? That question got its answer in 2002 when the original blues quartet lineup regrouped for the career-spanning Living With the Past film. It was a sight many ...

Control freak or just an admirable surety of vision? Probably the latter; besides, who would know better than Ian Anderson how a Jethro Tull album should proceed? He’s also an avid photographer ...