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“I became more and more angry. Love is like a mental disease that everybody wants to catch… It can feel so damaging when you’re in the middle of it”: Opeth and the making of Sorceress

Mikael Åkerfeldt on his violent games, hotel balcony prank, soaking a label exec in vodka, and being left to make music his own way

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"I've never talked about progressive rock, or thought that we were": David Gilmour says Pink Floyd were never progressive rock

It turns out that lengthy, multi-part instrumentals and concept albums aren't prog after all

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Jethro Tull announce newly remastered reissue of Aqualung Live

Jethro Tull's classic 1971 album Aqualung was recorded live for SiriusXM in 2005 and is newly remastered for coloured vinyl, CD and digital release in November

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"If you already liked Supertramp, Brother Where You Bound has everything you liked about them": Rick Davies takes control on Supertramp's first album without Roger Hodgson

With Roger Hodgson departed for solo pastures, Rick Davies augmented Supertramp's lineup with a couple of very special guests

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25 complicated concept albums explained as simply as possible

The music might be brilliant, but how do concept album plotlines fair once they're distilled to their bare bones?

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“Geddy Lee once said some very nice things about me. I think it’s about time we connected, if he’s still up for doing something”: Marco Minnemann’s prog world includes Rush, ping-pong and whisky – and he has “something” to thank Queen for

The Aristocrats drummer, who’s worked with Steven Wilson, Joe Satriani, Jordan Rudess and many others, owns up to appreciating Madonna and Kylie

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“We didn’t really talk to them. I don't think they liked us, and we didn't really like them that much either”: The time the Eagles opened for a legendary British prog rock band – and hated it

When country rock met prog, it was never going to end well

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“Inventive, unconventional approach sets them apart from lazy assumptions of what prog was doing in the early 70s”: Jethro Tull’s Still Living In The Past

Reissue series revives the 1972 high-class hodgepodge in a generous, never perfunctory style

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“One of the greatest to ever do it”: Terry “Superlungs” Reid, the guitarist, singer, and songwriter who forged his own path after turning down Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, has died aged 75

Reid toured with the Rolling Stones, Cream, Jethro Tull, and Fleetwood Mac, released seven studio albums, and was even a session player for the likes of Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt

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“It was painful for me to listen to Ian Anderson’s voice. I felt for him a lot”: Dave Pegg on why he quit Jethro Tull, beating Metallica to a Grammy, gigging with John Bonham and working with Nick Drake in a smelly squat

The proud owner of a broken Grammy award is regarded as a revelation in folk rock with Fairport Convention – but he only played bass that way because he didn’t know what else to do

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“He didn’t set the bar very high in terms of vocal skills right from the very beginning”: Which rock legend could Ian Anderson be talking about?

Jethro Tull man describes him as a “shouter”

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"It's still a hodge-podge... largely redundant": Jethro Tull's expanded Still Living In The Past fails to produce much magic from the vaults

Daze of future past

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“Some synth timbres sound a little dated; but hymnal qualities and exquisite melancholy are still to die for”: Greg Lake Live returns from 2005

His band doesn’t have the pedigree of many of his collaborators, but a future Jethro Tull guitarist and a TV show musical director prove highly capable foils in three-disc set

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“Although it might not feel natural, when you translate what he does for guitar, it sounds different”: Adrian Smith on how Steve Harris is the secret to Iron Maiden’s triple-guitar attack – and the prog instincts driving their sonic evolution

When your principal songwriter and driving force is directing traffic on bass, is it any wonder the guitars took a different path in search of brave new worlds to explore?

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“In Nazareth the crew do everything for us. But he’s there himself half the day, for the sheer love of his instrument”: Carl Sentance isn’t much of a prog fan, but his respect for Don Airey is limitless

Metal is more the singer’s thing, but he’s in awe of his bandmate’s achievements with Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Colosseum II and others

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Ian Anderson says it's possible Robert Plant wanted to replace him in Jethro Tull

History could have been very different

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“We did the whole album at festivals – the opposite of what you’re supposed to do. In some ways there was boldness, but it was also self-sabotage”: The Decemberists’ prog credentials

Colin Meloy’s band were raised on Roxy Music, British folk and concept albums. He isn’t big on Jethro Tull, but he’s in awe of Rick Wakeman’s King Arthur ice show

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"Metallica rented our equipment but the sound guy wasn't up to his job." Former Nightwish bassist Marko Hietala on the 10 songs that changed his life

Former Nightwish bassist/songwriter Marko Hietala shares the 10 songs that changed his life

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“I’d met Leslie West, and like a lot of guitar players, you couldn’t meet Leslie West and come out unscathed”: Martin Barre explains how the Mountain man influenced his most iconic solo on Jethro Tull’s Aqualung

The Jethro Tull legend says his meeting with the Mountain man left an indelible mark on him as a player

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Jethro Tull announce six-disc Living In The Past reissue

Jethro Tull's newly expanded Living In The Past features Steven Wilson remixes, edits, demos, Live at Carnegie Hall 1970 and four promo films.

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“I never write about people I know. I’ve always been against the idea of betraying any kind of confidence”: Are the touching tales of Jethro Tull’s Minstrel In The Gallery really just fiction?

Ian Anderson reflects on giving Roy Harper his movie break, aggressively defending Dee Palmer from paparazzi intrusion, losing bassist Jeffrey Hammond, planning to quit touring – and the quiet couple of weeks he spent recording Tull’s masterful 1975 album

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"A bunch of old guys having fun!" Jethro Tull announce The Curiosity Tour for April and May 2026

Ian Anderson also announces three Ian Anderson Presents Christmas With Jethro Tull dates for December

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Ian Anderson laments Jerusalem's current plight as Jethro Tull share brand new video for Over Jerusalem

Jethro Tull released their acclaimed 24th studio album Curious Ruminant in March

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"I know that sooner or later I won’t be able to do this any more": Driven by desperation and enthusiasm, Ian Anderson is leading Jethro Tull through a late career productivity burst

Why Ian Anderson is keeping Jethro Tull on a prolifically productive roll

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“It’s not about selling 12 million copies … the songs still touch me when I sing them or talk about them to this day”: Jethro Tull’s struggle to make Aqualung, in their own words

Their fourth album, a prophetic masterpiece and best-selling work, made them stars – but its creation wasn’t easy

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