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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 4 - The Untold Story

“So wasteful… such a futile and pointless gesture”: Ian Anderson sent a flute into space, and William Shatner followed later. The Jethro Tull leader wishes neither of those things had happened

His desire to be associated with the space race, first shared on 1970 album Benefit, resulted in disappointment

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"The sound of a man pushing his own boundaries and having an absolute ball": Ian Anderson's solo years, now in a handy box

31 years, 10 vinyl albums, one Ian Anderson

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“Rory Gallagher’s a saint in my house. There’s even a saintly painting of him above where I hang my guitar”: Meet Louise Patricia Crane, the solo-loving songwriter, seeking new prog sounds with King Crimson’s Jakko Jakszyk

Netherworld is the sound of Crane and producer Jakszyk testing the boundaries of where guitar can go, in the company of special guests Tony Levin, Gary Husband and Ian Anderson

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“I felt so embarrassed for him and I didn’t want to make things even worse”: Ian Anderson, the man who refused to meet Elvis Presley

The King had just staged his comeback and Jethro Tull were touring breakthrough album Stand Up – but when the ‘invitation’ came to greet Presley, Anderson resisted

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“I just had to tell him, ‘You’ve outdone me, you bugger!’” Iron Maiden used to merely hint at their prog credentials… now they flaunt them

A selection of the NWOBHM veterans’ longest, deepest and weirdest tracks – and they weren’t all written by Steve Harris

Metal Hammer

“I was always the lowest common denominator… but occasionally less can be more”: Jeffrey Hammond’s five years with Jethro Tull

Bassist contributed to some of the band’s most definitive works – but ultimately couldn’t resist the call of another art form

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“I tried to persuade Steven Wilson we should give that one a miss on the remix series!” Ian Anderson still detests the mindless sax of Jethro Tull’s A Passion Play

Horrified by sessions in a French chateau, they went home, dumped the work they’d done on their Thick As A Brick follow-up and started again. The result was a Marmite production that inspired split rumours

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Jethro Tull Returns To Top Album Sales Chart After 20 Years

Jethro Tull's 'Bursting Out' re-enters charts at No. 33, showcasing band's enduring popularity and successful reissue strategy.

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“We used to boil all our strings so all the crap would come off them. We couldn’t afford to buy new strings”: Geezer Butler explains how Black Sabbath managed to make ends meet as emerging heavy metal pioneers

Before they made a name for themselves, Sabbath were forced to save cash any way they could – and Butler’s bass strings took the hit

Guitar World

“I couldn't afford a set of strings, so I'd play the same strings for about six months... and then boil them, so all the crap would come off them, and they'd sound almost new again”: Geezer Butler on Sabbath’s cash-strapped early days

Geezer Butler talks about Black Sabbath's early days

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“Crystal-clear stereo separation, a much fuller and warmer sound… Steven Wilson’s remaster is a huge improvement”: Jethro Tull’s Bursting Out – The Inflated Edition

Bookset series turns to the band’s first live release, which showcases Ian Anderson as zany ringmaster

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“The idea is to be felt and not seen. A lot of that came from when I was in Jethro Tull”: Jonathan Noyce on how playing with Martin Barre and Gary Moore honed his “stealth bass” approach – and his final days with the late Irish guitar legend

The Yamaha and Fender fan has made use of his “art school” education in Tull and his loud and free times with late icon Moore

Guitar World

Ten-disc Ian Anderson solo box set to be released in August

8314 Boxed collects all of Ian Anderson solo alums plus a disc of unreleased live material

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"As slick as Jethro Tull got": The Inflated Edition of Jethro Tull's Bursting Out finds Ian Anderson & Co. finds them in fine form

Jethro Tull's 1978 live double album, newly pumped up

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The story of King Crimson's Red is on the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus BEAT, Anthony Phillips, Hawkwind, The Tangent, SIx By Six, Whom Gods Destroy, Trifecta and loads more...

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“I’m 16 and they were my heroes… They started to laugh because I was also playing the echo parts. I didn’t know they were a special effect”: Obsessive attention to detail was always Eddie Jobson’s superpower

From a backstage performance for Curved Air to being dragged onstage by Frank Zappa and out-complicating King Crimson, the UK violinist has managed to ignore distractions from making music

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Everton’s mood is Green Day. For Liverpool it’s more Dire Straits

In today’s Football Daily: And then there were two?

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"Somebody has to be the kind of songwriter who doesn’t give a shit if he gets called pretentious." Ian Anderson on the inspiration behind Jethro Tull's RökFlöte

After a gap of more than 20 years, Jethro Tull returned with their second album of new material this decade. RökFlöte finds the band exploring Norse mythology with a harder edge than last year’s The Zealot Gene

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“We didn’t force a connection, it just happened.” Steve Howe remembers a fledgling Yes supporting Jethro Tull in America in 1971

Supporting an already-established Jethro Tull in America helped Yes in their way to star status

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How Jethro Tull broke America is the cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Van der Graaf Generator, Gentle Giant, Devin Townsend, Rick Wakeman, Big Big Train

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Jethro Tull announce six-disc Bursting Out - The Inflated Edition

Jethro Tull's three CD/three DVD reissue of Bursting Out will be released in June

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The manager said, ‘Ian Anderson and the boys don’t want you in the band so you’ve been fired.’ I replied, ‘How can you fire me when I quit three weeks ago?’” Mick Abrahams’ life after Jethro Tull

Health issues have made it almost impossible for Blodwyn Pig founder to play guitar – but he maintains ”it could be worse”

Guitar World

“Martin is doing his own stuff. He should be having a whale of a time, instead of being embittered about Jethro Tull”: Ian Anderson seemingly rules out the prospect of a ‘Tull reunion with Martin Barre

Anderson doesn't think a reunion with Barre “would make the atmosphere within the band very easy”

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"Things were gloriously easy back in 1969 because we only had two albums. Things are now much more tortuous": Ian Anderson on touring, bedbugs and Martin Barre

Jethro Tull are about to play 10 UK shows, and band leader Ian Anderson is hitting the rails rather than the road

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The Wildest and Most Talked-About Grammys Moments Ever

From on-screen marriages to rescinded awards!

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