Jethro Tull's seventh album was born during a particularly ... Anderson wrote in the liner notes to the 2002 reissue of the War Child album, which collects 10 disparate songs intended to form ...

However, Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson has his ... (1973), Anderson wrote “Bungle in the Jungle” for the album “War Child” (1974), referencing the animal kingdom as analogies for ...

When Jethro Tull fired bassist Glenn Cornick in 1970 ... Thick As A Brick, A Passion Play, War Child and Minstrel In The Gallery – establishing Ian Anderson and co among the vanguard of ...

is about as slick as Jethro Tull got. Regular tours of America, where they’d scored Top 3 albums with Thick As A Brick, A Passion Play and War Child, had knocked them into shape and now they ...

“People see Jethro Tull as a kind of heavy metal folk band,” a bemused ... Less of a production than the preceding War Child, the title track sets the tone for an album of Tudorbethan acoustic songs ...

Jethro Tull stood out from the prog-rock crowd ... It worked, as the song went to No. 12 upon its release off the album War Child in 1974. Anderson has often expressed some ambivalence about ...

Wednesday's show at Wolf Trap, "Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull," might have been subtitled "The Juvenile Person's Guide to the Orchestra," as Anderson chatted, mugged and naughtied ...

Ian Anderson started writing about climate change in 1973, in the lyrics for Jethro Tull‘s “Skating Away (On the Thin Ice of a New Day)” on the album War Child. While those lines may sound ...

“It’s not any particularly novel or unusual occurrence,” the Jethro Tull leader says nonchalantly through his dry British accent. “This year marks the anniversary of many other bands who ...

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