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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 6 - Caught on Camera

The 10 best covers by Iron Maiden

From 70s hard rock anthems to mystical prog deep cuts, Iron Maiden are the kings of the cover versions

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”Jethro Tull influenced me a lot in the later years of Rush - that attitude of taking your music seriously but not taking yourself seriously”: Geddy Lee’s prog stars

He believes Clockwork Angels is the best record he’s made… but can’t decide which of two is the worst

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“I speak like I do because I spent years trying to impersonate Vivian Stanshall”: Comedian and musician Ade Edmondson’s prog record collection

The Young Ones and Bottom star fronted The Bad Shepherds with inspirations including the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Jethro Tull, Focus, Alex Harvey and a stack of folk influences

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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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Tonbridge Castle's Walled Garden Festival cancelled

The festival's prog day was to feature Jethro Tull, Lifesigns, Mostly Autumn and Bruce Soord

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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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“Look at Kate Bush or Queen: sometimes when you don’t do the norm, that’s what changes the world a little bit” - How Midge Ure finally embraced his prog tendencies

Ultravox’s Vienna and Band Aid might have made his name but Yes, Uriah Heep and ELP figured in his musical education - even if no one noticed

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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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Marillion and four great gifts in the new issue of Prog, on sale now...

Plus Francis Monkman, Dave Stewart, Renaissance, Rod Argent Wishbone Ash, Lazuli and loads more...

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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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Is London really the 15th safest city in the world? This American believes so

She’s seen the capital through American eyes for four decades. Whatever unease Londoners feel, says Katie Puckrik, it’s worth it to live in such a brilliant city

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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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'Absolute disgrace' - demand for refund after chaos at County Durham's Northern Kin Festival

Festival-goers describe queues and scenes of vehicles and wheelchairs stuck in mud at County Durham music event while organisers apologise as the show goes on

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Are Jethro Tull headed back to the UK Top 10?

The Official Chart Company reports Jethro Tull are in contention for their highest charting album in 50 years with RökFlöte

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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 announce The Seven Decades US tour

Jethro Tull are to tour The US later in the year in support of umlaut-friendly new album 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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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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Rush take centre stage with Signals on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Jethro Tull, Hawkwind, Alan Parsons Project, Hipgnosis, Crown Pands, Exploring Birdsong and loads more...

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