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“We had no money, no management, and we’d been dropped by the label. But when we plugged in and played, it was the most magnificent thing”: Midge Ure’s prog moments with Ultravox, Robert Fripp, Kate Bush, Jethro Tull and, indirectly, Steven Wilson

Taking the same attitude to keyboards that he’d first taken to guitar, he regards his best 80s work as “synth prog” – and it’s difficult to disagree

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Jethro Tull's M.U. The Best Of... to be reissued as a limited edition half-speed vinyl remaster in July

The new remasrer of M.U. The Best Of Jethro Tull has been overseen by Ian Anderson and cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road

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Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson is on the cover of the new, gift-packed issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Yes, Steve Hogarth, Exploring Birdsong, The Paradox Twin, Franck Carducci. Tarja, Liminal Sky, A.A. Williams, MONO, Burning Shed and loads more...

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“I suspect they’ve had a lesser impact on the music world due to the complexity of their music”: No-Man’s Tim Bowness on his prog hero, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson

They collaborated on Bowness’ 2017 album Lost In The Ghost Light, but his appreciation for the rock flute icon goes back to Tull’s early trilogies

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Jethro Tull announce newly expanded and remixed reissue of their 1999 album J-Tull Dot Com

New three-CD and Blu-ray release J-Tull Dot Com: Another Cast Of The Net will be available in August

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“I was just playing, warming up for the show, and Glenn comes busting in… ‘What the hell’s that?’ ‘I don’t know, it’s just this lick I warm up with.’ He said, ‘No, that‘s an Eagles song, dude!’” The making of the Eagles’ 1976 masterpiece Hotel California

How the Eagles harnessed their cresting creative powers – and resisted their appetite for destruction – to create one of rock’s all-time classics

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"When they marched through a crowd of Jethro Tull fans in America, led by two bagpipers, they were making memories that would last forever." Fighting fascism, riots and rock'n'roll: The onstage story of the Sensational Alex Harvey Band

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band didn’t shift as many records as they deserved to, but as a live band they were like no other

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BBC's 2026 Proms season to feature a Prog Prom for the very first time!

"Prog is simply great music," says this year's Prog Prom curator and 6 Music Freak Zone presenter Stuart Maconie

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“I’m a heavy hitter, so I had to calm down my attack. In the studio we nicknamed it ‘self-compressing’”: How fretless bass master Steve DiGiorgio embraced frets on Testament’s 2016 metal masterstroke

For Brotherhood of the Snake, DiGiorgio wielded little more than a stock 1978 Rickenbacker 4001

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"It was an experiment, and not everyone was ready for that kind of change!" Jethro Tull announce six-disc reissue of 1984 album Under Wraps

Jethro Tull's Under Wraps: The Unwrapped Edition brings together the band's 1984 album and Ian Anderson's 1983 debut solo album, Walk Into Light

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“In the 70s the support band had to blow the main act offstage. I thought it was distasteful. There’s room for everybody”: Jethro Tull ex Martin Barre insists he’s not underrated, and explains why he has no time for egos

Guitarist reveals what he learned from one of his band’s opening acts, names a guitarist who’s a “real yardstick” of brilliance – and touches on what he misses about being in Ian Anderson’s band

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“We could hold our own with any company. It didn’t bother us if we were put on the bill with Crimson or Zeppelin. Nothing phased us”: Remembering the late Mick Abrahams, co-founder of Jethro Tull and purveyor of “good, honest music”

A powerful, lyrical bluesman, the founding Jethro Tull and Blodwyn Pig guitarist always played music his way – even when it hurt his career

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“I said, ‘Just start again. It would be good for you.’ He persuaded me to stay. I never felt good about it”: Martin Barre tried to quit Jethro Tull in 1980, but Ian Anderson wouldn’t have it

Their musical partnership finally ended after 43 years – but the guitarist says he wanted to break it up decades earlier

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“It’s not cute and it’s not nice. I was afflicted. I never conquered it, but I dealt with it”: Prog guitar icon’s struggle with shyness brought him to music and made him a success

His world changed when he realised that playing in bands meant he’d never have to dance

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“If you have a 16-bar guitar solo, please don’t turn into Yngwie Malmsteen orJoe Satriani”: Ian Anderson had some soloing advice for Jethro Tull’s new guitarist

No Arpeggios From Hell!? Denied! What the hopping flautist with the wild-eyed stare told Jack Clark when it came time to track leads for Jethro Tull's latest album, Curious Ruminant

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“We’re not flower children and we’re not yuppies. We’re somewhere in between – the Van Der Graaf Generation”: They had links to Jethro Tull, Voivod and The Cure. Did you really think Men Without Hats were all new wave and no prog?

The classically-trained Canadians were wearing their influences with pride by fifth album Sideways. And they were making a concept album about UFOs when their label dropped them

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“I wrote it on a piece of paper somewhere on tour, and I thought, ‘That’s an album!’” A glimpse of how Ian Anderson creates Jethro Tull lyrics

He recalled the spark that ignited Thick As A Brick when he decided to publish a lyric book – which he admitted nobody needed, and feared would be a cringe experience

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“I haven’t written anything on the new album. I started to write ‘very heavy metal’ things, but I ended up writing for bagpipes, folk things like Jethro Tull. Oh well – bang go my royalties!”: When Bruce Dickinson was Iron Maiden’s odd man out

“There was none of me on that record – I was just AWOL mentally”

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"If you have a sixteen-bar guitar solo, please don't turn into Yngwie Malmsteen or Joe Satriani": Ian Anderson on Jethro Tull, the right kind of guitarist, and forgetting what he's done

Ian Anderson talks about Jethro Tull’s latest album Curious Ruminant and ponders the itch to make another

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Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson won't retire

Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson, 78, hopes he will still keep performing and recording for at least a few years.

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"His performance was so far out of time, out of tune": The shambolic story of The Rolling Stones' star-studded Rock And Roll Circus

With Brian Jones falling apart on set, the Rock And Roll Circus went so badly that the planned film wasn’t released until 28 years later

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“An attitude of jokey sabotage helps them avoid seeming precious – it even reinvents a couple of the tracks”: Jethro Tull’s Aqualung Live demonstrates its power 20 years on

First time on vinyl for 2005’s live take on a bona fide prog classic

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The story of Porcupine Tree's Deadwing is on the cover of the new gift-packed issue of Prog, which is on sale now

Prog 165 also features Peter Hammill, John Lodge, Cardiacs, Gazpacho, Steve Morse, Solstice, Atomic Rooster, Crown Lands, The Utopia Strong, Barry Palmer, Cate Le Bon, Amorphis and loads more...

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“If it gets a bit tense we chill out with a joke. He’s good at that. Most of our messages are in a West Country dialect!” Thom Yorke isn’t the very serious character you may have thought, says one collaborator

Electronic artist reveals Radiohead vocalist is more likely to say “Wasson there, bey?” than “What’s your problem, eh?” – and their new album might just contain a pinch of King Crimson and Gentle Giant

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Debate: What’s the best live prog album of all time?

Is it Rush’s Exit… Stage Left? Genesis’ Seconds Out? Yessongs? Jethro Tull's Bursting Out? Something else? Have your say here

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