Jethro Tull already had made three albums when Aqualung was released on March 19, 1971. But none of those records had the force, songs or lasting influence that their breakthrough LP almost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ian Anderson recalled that, like much of the album, the title track emerged as a result of the singer-songwriter approach he ...

The 55th anniversary of Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" album is being celebrated by the syndicated radio show In The Studio With Redbeard: The Stories Behind History's Greatest Rock Bands. Redbeard shared ...

Whatever one’s feelings about progressive rock, Jethro Tull’s Aqualung is a rare album that remains at once part of, and above, the fray. It is, to be certain, a cornerstone of the then-nascent ...

This is when Martin Barre’s Les Paul comes in, unhurried, laying out the contours of the journey he’s about to take on the fretboard, embedding a riff in the hearts and minds of generations of Tull ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Scottish Rock musician Ian Anderson, of the group Jethro Tull, plays flute as he performs onstage, during the band's 'Heavy Horses' tour, at Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, October 11, 1978 ...

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 ...

In certain non-rock circles, the artist Burton Silverman is something of a superstar. Yet most music aficionados have never heard of him, despite his role in a career-turning moment for Jethro Tull in ...

The 50th anniversary of Jethro Tull's Aqualung album is being celebrated by the syndicated radio show In The Studio With Redbeard: The Stories Behind History's Greatest Rock Bands. The show's host ...

In 1969, Jethro Tull had a Top Three UK single with Living In The Past and also a No.1 album, Stand Up. They hadn’t yet breached the US Top Ten, though, coming close a year later with the ...