The year 1971 was a momentous one for prog rock. Among the year’s signal albums were ELP’s Tarkus, Pink Floyd’s Meddle, Hawkwind’s In Search Of Space and Genesis’s Nursery Cryme, not to mention a ...

Few bands of the early '70s created such a defiantly idiosyncratic sound as Jethro Tull. Formed in Luton in 1967 and named after an 18th century farmer/inventor, the band emerged from the late 60s ...

In April of 1972, Jethro Tull took everything that people either loved or hated about prog-rock and put it in a 44-minute album that was also, incidentally, a 44-minute song: Thick as a Brick.

Jethro Tull's follow-up to their breakthrough Aqualung album was Thick as a Brick. The LP was as notable for its packaging as much as the music it contained. In fact, it was just about the most ...

A concept album about 8-year-old schoolboy Gerald Bostock and his struggles in life, 1972's Thick as a Brick cemented Jethro Tull as prog-rock icons. And yet the British group never played the entire ...

To hear Ian Anderson tell it, first in 1988 and again this week, the aural teddy bear known as Jethro Tull endures. True, that “bear” may now look a bit worse for wear, but its music — a fusion of ...

One thing Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson knew going into 1972 was that he was ready to take the band and its music to a markedly different place. The group was coming off its first commercially ...

One of Jethro Tull's classic records, 'Thick as a Brick,' celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and Ultimate Classic Rock is giving you the opportunity to win the new vinyl box set version of the ...

It was intended to be a bit of a spoof, actually -- a send-up of the pretentiousness of progressive rock. Four decades later, people are still taking Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick seriously as a ...

Jethro Tull leader Ian Anderson has already commemorated the 40th anniversary of its hit 'Thick as a Brick' record by releasing a sequel -- and now the band is continuing the celebration by reaching ...

We've all made a few jokes in our lives, but none have amassed quite the same acclaim or endurance as Ian Anderson's ...

The sequel to Jethro Tull's 1972 concept album "Thick as a Brick" had "an uneasy birth" according to Ian Anderson -- who's releasing "Thick as a Brick 2" as a solo album on April 3, with a tour to f… ...