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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 - Living In The Past - 2nd - 4pr - UK - 7" vinyl - £15.00, $18.75, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 25-Apr-2024 16:42)on April 27, 2024 at 6:48 pm
JETHRO TULL Living In The Past (1969 UK 'block' label issue 7" single with four prong centre, also including Driving Song, Island repro die-cut company sleeve. The vinyl remains in excellent condition with few signs of play WIP-6056)
- Jethro Tull - Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll - 1st - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £25.00, $31.25, €29.25 (New Item) (arrived 17-Apr-2024 09:24)on April 27, 2024 at 6:48 pm
JETHRO TULL Too Old To Rock 'n' Roll (1976 UK first issue 10-track LP on the green Chrysalis label, gatefold picture sleeve with lyrics on the back. The sleeve shows just a little light shelfwear with a couple of spots of discolouration & the vinyl remains in superb condition with few signs of play CHR1111)
- Jethro Tull - The Whistler - UK - 7" vinyl - £10.00, $12.50, €11.70 (New Item) (arrived 12-Apr-2024 11:45)on April 27, 2024 at 6:48 pm
JETHRO TULL The Whistler (1977 UK 7" single with four prong centre, also including Strip Cartoon, plain die-cut sleeve. The vinyl still looks barely played CHS2135)
- Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick - 2nd - UK - vinyl LP - £45.00, $56.25, €52.65 (New Item) (arrived 12-Apr-2024 14:33)on April 27, 2024 at 6:48 pm
JETHRO TULL Thick As A Brick (1972 UK second issue LP, pressed by Island without the white 'i' logo or perimeter label text, superb fold-out thick card newspaper picture sleeve. The sleeve shows just minor wear & the vinyl remains in excellent condition with few signs of play. A wonderful example CHR1003)
- Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses - 1st - EX - US - vinyl LP - £15.00, $18.75, €17.55 (New Item) (arrived 12-Apr-2024 14:37)on April 27, 2024 at 6:48 pm
JETHRO TULL Heavy Horses (1978 US first issue 9-track LP from the brilliant middle chapter of the Tull progressive folk phase, complete with lyric inner, textured & embossed picture sleeve with small promo punch hole. The sleeve shows a little light wear with some edge scuffing & the vinyl remains Excellent with just a few faint paper scuffs not affecting play CHR1175)
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