“He tore the whole thing to shreds and was very unkind, harsh and cruel … It was very upsetting to have someone you admire being so nasty about your work”: Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull’s War Child, and 1974

Ian Anderson.

In 1974 Jethro Tull released War Child, an album Ian Anderson has described as “kind of okay.” It was the result of a failed attempt to make a movie and came while the band were still adjusting after the disasters surrounding the previous year’s A Passion Play. But Anderson regards the year of War Child’s release as containing many more significant events in music. In 2014 he told Prog what 1974 meant to him.

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