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March 17, 2023: Singersroom: 10 Best Jethro Tull Songs of All Time
Jethro Tull, the iconic British rock band formed in 1967, has been entertaining audiences for over five decades. The band’s unique blend of progressive rock, folk, and classical music has won them a legion of dedicated fans worldwide. Led by frontman Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull has released 21 studio albums and numerous live recordings, earning critical acclaim and commercial success along the way. June 27, 2018: Rolling Stone: Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson: My Life in 10 Songs
As the pioneering prog rockers celebrate their 50th anniversary with a tour and new box set, their leader reflects on the tracks that defined them 
Stand Up is the second album by Jethro Tull. Before this album, the band's original guitarist Mick Abrahams resigned because of musical differences with Ian Anderson; Abrahams wanted to stay with the blues-rock sound of This Was, while Anderson wished to branch out into other musical forms. Overall, however, the album does remain more broadly in the style of blues rock than future Jethro Tull albums. Stand Up represents the first album project on which Anderson was in full control of the music and lyrics. It also marks the first appearance of guitarist Martin Barre, who appeared on every Jethro Tull album from this point on. The album goes in a different direction from Ian Anderson's earlier work, revealing influences from Celtic, folk, and classical music. In particular, the song "Fat Man" showed an interest in unusual instrumentation, as Ian Anderson played mandolin, one of the first times the instrument had been used by a rock band. The instrumental "Bourée" (one of Jethro Tull's better-known numbers) is a jazzy re-working of "Bourrée in E minor" by J.S. Bach. Ian Anderson has said that the melody and solo in "We Used to Know" were used by the Eagles in "Hotel California" as a type of tribute. The Eagles had opened for Jethro Tull at one time.
The album reached No. 1 on the British charts. The gatefold album cover, in a woodcut style designed by artist James Grashow, originally opened up like a children's pop-up book, so that a cut-out of the band's personnel stood up — evoking the album's title. Stand Up won New Musical Express's award for best album artwork in 1969. The album was re-issued in 1973 by Chrysalis Records and again in 2001 as a digital remaster. In 1989, an MFSL remaster was released. |
December 11, 1968: Jethro Tull performed for The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus. The group performed "A Song for Jeffrey"
Dec 30, 1968: Jethro Tull played at the Winter Gardens, Penzance. Also the first time Martin Barre publicly performed with the group. January 30,2012: Anderson announced via the Jethro Tull website that Thick as a Brick 2: Whatever Happened to Gerald Bostock?, a followup to Thick as a Brick, would be released on April 2, 2012. April 2, 2012: "Thick as a Brick 2: Whatever Happened to Gerald Bostick was released. April 14, 2012: Thick as a Brick 2 had its world premiere at Perth Concert Hall, Scotland, kicking off an expected 18-month tour supporting both the original and new albums. |
January 28, 2022: "Inside Out Music" was released.
November 17, 2022: Jethro Tull announced on their Facebook page that they had completed recording their 23rd studio album, which is expected to be released in spring 2023.
November 5, 2021: Jethro Tull announced on their official website that the album would be released on January 28, 2022.
July 13, 2021, it was announced that Jethro Tull had signed with Inside Out Music for the release of their 22nd album The Zealot Gene in early 2022.
June 1, 2018, Parlophone Records released a new (50-track) career collection celebrating the band's 50th anniversary featuring all 21 Tull albums, named 50 for 50. In the notes of the 50 for 50 booklet it is said that the new album scheduled for 2019 will be a solo record by Ian Anderson and not a new album by Jethro Tull.
January 2, 2018, Ian Anderson published a New Year post on jethrotull.com, including a picture of Anderson with the caption "IA in the studio working on a new album for release March 2019. Shhhh; keep it a secret..."
April 14, 2012: Thick as a Brick 2 had its world premiere at Perth Concert Hall, Scotland, kicking off an expected 18-month tour supporting both the original and new albums.
July 4, 2003: Jethro Tull played Montreux and featured, among others, "Fat Man", "With You There to Help Me" and "Hunting Girl", with the longest unchanged line-up: Anderson, Barre, Perry, Noyce and Giddings.
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Oct 31, 1984: Jethro Tull played at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena.
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October 31, 1984
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April 10, 1978: Heavy Horses, the eleventh studio album by Jethro Tull, was released. This album was the last studio album to feature John Glascock playing bass on all tracks.
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Dec 19, 1974: A Rolling Stone review described "War Child" :"Each handcrafted track comes chock-full of schmaltz, strings, tootie-fruitti sound effects and flute toots to boot, not to mention Anderson's warbling lyricism.
British audiences have long had the good taste to avoid such pablum. Hopefully American listeners, hipped by A Passion Play, will follow suit. Remember: Tull rhymes with dull." October 14, 1974: "War Child" LP was released in the US.
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October 26, 1974: "War Child" LP was released in the UK.
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Dec 7, 1973: Jethro Tull began recording songs for "War Child" starting with "Ladies".
January 29,1970: Jethro Tull appeared on BBC's Top of the Pops, performing "Witch's Promise".
