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Ian Anderson always felt bad for this one artist who he thought was constantly stuck in the shadows of a bigger name, unable to escape the comparisons.
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 ...
Mungo Jerry had just one US hit single. But it was the all-time seasonal anthem "In The Summertime", which is as iconic as it gets.
Looking at how Eric Clapton was so big in the London blues scene that artists like Ian Anderson and Andy Summers built their careers by leaning away from him.
The PGA Tour has announced that five golfers have withdrawn from the RBC Canadian Open, which begins on June 5 at TPC Toronto ...
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Jethro Tull founder Ian Anderson is back on tour in the U.S. He will take his multimedia rock show, "Jethro Tull by Ian Anderson," to the Plaza Theatre on Sunday. The show promises to be a trip ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“People see Jethro Tull as a kind of heavy metal folk band,” a bemused Anderson told Kerrang ... “When anyone works with Ian, Ian dominates,” conceded Barre in 1979, but with a little more space to ...
“You might call it the blues,” Anderson says. “But to me, it’s cultural misappropriation.” Jethro Tull in 1968. (from left) Glenn Barnard, Ian Anderson, Clive Bunker and Mick ...