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Given it was splashed all over the cover of issue 117 of Prog Magazine, it’s unlikely to have escaped anyone’s notice that this year Jethro Tull celebrate the 50th anniversary of their fourth studio album, and arguably best-known album, 1971’s Aqualung.
Now the band have released a new animated video to celebrate the album’s anniversary. The new rotoscope animated video, directed by Sam Chegini, features many images from the songs lyrics, as well as Ian Anderson performing today and an equally graphic depiction of homelessness.
“At the suggestion of my pal, Jakko Jaksyzk of King Crimson, I contacted a young Iranian videographer/director, Sam Chegini,” Anderson told Rolling Stone. “He delivered a unique rendition of the Aqualung song with abstract and documentary-type footage. A talented young man with a bright future in the music arts.”
At the same time Anderson has revealed that the next Jethro Tull album, which he’s still completing, will be titled The Zealot Gene. It’s the band’s first new album since 2003’s The Jethro Tull Christmas Album. Anderson will also release Silent Singing, a career-encompassing lyric book, in June of this year, which will feature his lyrics from 1968’s This Was album up to and including the forthcoming The Zealot Gene.
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- Jethro Tull - Stand Up - 1st + Pop-Up - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £175.00, $229.25, €201.25 (New Item) (arrived 14-Apr-2025 16:00)on April 14, 2025 at 11:53 pm
JETHRO TULL Stand Up (Rare 1969 UK first issue 10-track stereo vinyl LP on the pink Island 'eye' logo label, their second studio album including the single Bouree. The superb pop-up gatefold picture sleeve shows some discolouration to the back while the vinyl remains in Excellent condition with only light surface scuffs or hairlines detectable - A fantastic copy over 50 years on, Recommended! ILPS9103)
- Jethro Tull - Aqualung - graduated blue label - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $32.75, €28.75 (New Item) (arrived 11-Apr-2025 16:00)on April 14, 2025 at 11:53 pm
JETHRO TULL Aqualung (1984 UK issue of the 1971 11-track LP on the graduated blue Chrysalis label with gothic text, housed in a very lightly textured gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve shows light wear & the vinyl has hardly any visible signsof play, remaining in Near Mint condition CHR1044)
- Jethro Tull - Catfish Rising - Sealed - UK - CD album - £9.99, $13.09, €11.49 (New Item) (arrived 10-Apr-2025 17:23)on April 14, 2025 at 11:53 pm
JETHRO TULL Catfish Rising (Sealed 2006 UK 15-track digitally remastered CD, first released in 1991, it has been referred to as Tull's best album from the nineties, with its raw energy & enthusiasm differentiating it from the Tull output of the eighties, probably their most Blues-influenced album since 1968's 'This Was'. Includes the two bonus recordings: 'Night In The Wilderness' & 'Jump Start [Live]' which originally appeared on the B-Side of the August 1991 single 'This Is Not Love'. Complete with the 12-page picture sleeve booklet, sealed from new)
- Jethro Tull - Aqualung - graduated blue label - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $32.75, €28.75 (New Item) (arrived 11-Apr-2025 15:49)on April 14, 2025 at 11:53 pm
JETHRO TULL Aqualung (1984 UK issue of the 1971 11-track LP on the graduated blue Chrysalis label with gothic text, housed in a very lightly textured gatefold picture sleeve. The sleeve shows light wear & the vinyl has hardly any visible signsof play, remaining in Near Mint condition CHR1044)
- Jethro Tull - Stand Up (A Steven Wilson Stereo Remix) - Sealed - UK - CD album - £9.99, $13.09, €11.49 (Back In Stock) (arrived 11-Apr-2025 16:00)on April 14, 2025 at 11:53 pm
JETHRO TULL Stand Up (Sealed 2017 UK 17-track remastered CD, featuring the Steven Wilson Stereo Remix for the 1969 album, expanded to include seven bonus tracks, complete with the picture sleeve booklet. Sealed from new)
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