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“Brian Eno has a very simple view on music - the more we clutter it up with things the more foggy the goodness gets”: Huey Morgan’s prog education

Former Fun Lovin’ Criminals frontman traces a line from Nat King Cole and Frank SInatra to Talk Talk, Marillion, Jethro Tull and others

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“Ian Anderson does have a face that lends itself to illustrating… He doesn’t have to do much to look evil!” The creation of Jethro Tull’s The Broadsword And The Beast Cover

Artist Iain McCaig recalls the Steven Spielberg-like collaboration for 1982 album art - and what happened to the monster’s head prop he took home from the tour

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“Not my finest hour… but if you can forgive my codpiece and tights in the 70s you can forgive me getting out a coffin in a cloak and comedy fangs”: Ian Anderson on Jethro Tull’s 80s era

The decade started with a “big split” and continued through unhappy electronic experiments and bad videos to that controversial Grammy win - but leader says it’s all part of their “universe of silliness”

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“The day I ask the audience to sing my songs I might as well go home. It’s hard enough for trained singers, let alone an audience who will massacre it”: How Ian Anderson refined Jethro Tull stage shows

He took a long hard look at his production values when The Broadsword And The Beast was first released in 1982

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“It was a finished product, called A for Anderson, intended as a solo record. Then the record company heard it." The story of Jethro Tull and A

When 1980's A came out it featured a new Jethro Tull line-up, a new sound and songs about the threat of nuclear war and terrorism. Not everyone was impressed.

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"I’d seen this wild-eyed, crazy-haired guy and my parents were horrified!" Marc Almond's lifelong passion for Jethro Tull and Ian Anderson

Soft Cell singer cherishes memory of performing Thick As A Brick with the man who wrote it

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The ‘Lizzo effect’: has the star made the flute ‘cool again’?

Jethro Tull fans might argue that it already was

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“It was a feeling of betrayal – they buy your record then come to a concert and whistle and hoot and screech… it all felt quite vulgar”: The time Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson nearly quit music

The band's rise to fame wasn't without its downsides

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Michael Cunningham: Braves need to restock farm system depleted by big league success

ATLANTA — The expert consensus is that the Braves have the worst farm system among major league teams. That would be a problem if they also had a bad major-league team. The Braves have been a great major league team over multiple years, with prospects either directly filling needs or…

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Jethro Tull announce 40th anniversary reissue of The Broadsword And The Beast

Jethro Tull will reissue fourteenth studio album, 1982's The Broadsword And The Beast, in September

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Jethro Tull announce The Seven Decades UK tour

Jethro Tull will play 11 UK shows next Spring, as Ian Anderson warns front row ticket holders to be wary of "flute spit"

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Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick: the 40 minute song Ian Anderson wrote as a joke

At a critical and commercial peak after Aqualung, Tull frontman Ian Anderson created an album that split one epic track over two sides - parodying prog and rock poetry

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Ian Anderson fell down a rabbit hole that led to Valhalla: he emerged with a new Jethro Tull album

The second new Jethro Tull album in two years, Rökflöte, explores Ragnarök, the Norse interpretation of the apocalypse. So we spoke to Ian Anderson about the end of the world

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In 1968 Tony Iommi joined Jethro Tull for two weeks: it was the making of Black Sabbath

Tony Iommi left Birmingham to join Jethro Tull in time for the filming of The Rolling Stones' Rock And Roll Circus, but he didn't hang around for long

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Edinburgh Live

Sewage discharges in Edinburgh rivers 'like return of gardyloo' as calls made to fix 'scandal'

Local environmental groups warned of an "obvious increase" in discharges of human waste in Edinburgh's waterways.

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Jethro Tull - RökFlöte: "resounds with personality, meaning and drama."

Ian Anderson draws on Viking mythology on the follow-up to The Zealot Gene – but no one’s living in the past on Tull’s 23rd album.

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RökFlöte finds Jethro Tull tackling Norse Gods and somehow reborn as a viable contemporary outfit

Jethro Tull forsake the Bible of last year's The Zealot Gene in favour of the paganism of Norse mythology on RökFlöte

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Jethro Tull legend Ian Anderson says Motörhead and Mötley Crüe are misappropriating umlauts: "it ought to make you either laugh or get angry"

Jethro Tull will be using the umlaut properly for new album RökFlöte - unlike some certain rock and metal legends

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The National (Scotland)

Musical icons Jethro Tull explore new territory in 23rd album

JETHRO Tull, led by Dunfermline-born Ian Anderson, have sold more

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Braves’ Ian Anderson likely will undergo Tommy John surgery, ending his season

ATLANTA — Braves right-hander Ian Anderson likely will undergo Tommy John surgery that will end his 2023 season, a person familiar with the situation told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The surgery usually is done to repair a torn UCL (the team has not confirmed the specifics of his injury).

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Jethro Tull share striking video for new single Hammer On Hammer

Prog legends Jethro Tull will release their brand new album RökFlöte in April

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Metallica's 72 Seasons: the full story is told in the new issue of Classic Rock

Inside: a brand new Metallica interview, plus Gary Rossington, Ian Hunter, Def Leppard, Jethro Tull, DeWolff, Floor Jansen, Kansas, Richard Marx, Europe, Floor Jansen and more

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Jon Anderson on 1000 Hands: "The only way forward is to get rid of corruption, greed and suffering"

Jon Anderson discusses the genesis of his 2019 solo album, 1000 Hands: Chapter One, which was nearly 30 years in the making

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Hear Jethro Tull's new album RökFlöte before anyone else!

Win one of five pairs of tickets for an exclusive playback of Jethro Tull's RökFlöte in Dolby Atmos in our great competition

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Lefty Dylan Dodd becomes surprise of Braves spring training

NORTH PORT, Fla. — Dylan Dodd didn’t imagine this either. Just a few years ago, he had an ERA over 5.00 at Southeast Missouri State. And despite jumping three minor-league levels last season, Dodd still was an unheralded prospect.

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