“An attitude of jokey sabotage helps them avoid seeming precious – it even reinvents a couple of the tracks”: Jethro Tull’s Aqualung Live demonstrates its power 20 years on

Jethro Tull – Aqualung Live remaster.

Coinciding with its 20th anniversary, this in-concert rendition of Jethro Tull’s milestone work Aqualung was performed in front of a radio audience in Washington, DC with royalties going to homeless charities.

The generally faithful versions are rendered with a crystal-clear clarity and interspersed with Ian Anderson’s usual wit – spoken or indeed musical.