Jethro Tull

Jethro Tull
Formed: 1967 in Blackpool, England
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Genre: Rock
Styles: Hard Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Blues-Rock, Album Rock, Arena Rock
Group Members: Eddie Jobson, Ian Anderson, Mick Abrahams, Dave Pegg, Martin Allcock, Martin Barre, Don Airey, Barriemore Barlow, Clive Bunker, Gerry Conway, ...View All
Biography: Jethro Tull was a unique phenomenon in popular music history. Their mix of hard rock; folk melodies; blues licks; surreal, impossibly dense lyrics; and overall profundity defied easy analysis, but that didn't dissuade fans from giving them 11 gold and five platinum albums. At the same time, critics rarely ...Read full biography
Aqualung
Released: 1971
Label: Classics France
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Released at a time when a lot of bands were embracing pop-Christianity (à la Jesus Christ Superstar), Aqualung was a bold statement for a rock group, a pro-God antichurch tract that probably got lots of ...Read full review
Thick as a Brick
Released: 1972
Label: Ultradisc
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Jethro Tull's first LP-length epic is a masterpiece in the annals of progressive rock, and one of the few works of its kind that still holds up decades later. Mixing hard rock and English folk music with ...Read full review
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