Jethro Tull’s venerable bandleader Ian Anderson is no stranger to interviews, but he’d never done one quite like this before. Prog lined up an all-star cast of friends, collaborators and admirers to give him a grilling he won’t forget! We get his thoughts on all manner of topics, from the serious to the candid, in one of the most revealing Q&As he’s ever given.
Ian Anderson is a hale-looking 78, and Jethro Tull, the band he formed in London in 1967, are fast approaching their diamond anniversary, but neither show any signs of slowing down. Tull are on a late-career hot streak, having released three new studio albums in the last four years, not to mention their ongoing reissues campaign, which has just reached 1984’s divisive but vivid Under Wraps.