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Pop-lifting (Part 1): Eagles, Beatles, Beach Boys and Their Stolen Music
The other day I got into my car and the first thing I did–just like I was taught in Driver’s Ed class–was to check the CD player. As I switched the function from radio to CD and landed on track 3...
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Unpopular Opinion: Prince Lowered the Bar for Sexual Innuendo in Music
While I can appreciate a titillating suggestive lyric in a pop song, I believe even the low-minded can be artfully rendered. And I’d argue that the man most associated with lyrical sexual innuendo was...
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Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson: My Life in 10 Songs
As the pioneering prog rockers celebrate their 50th anniversary with a tour and new box set, their leader reflects on the tracks that defined them (via Rolling Stone) by Kory Grow For Ian Anderson –...
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What happened the night Jethro Tull beat Metallica to a Grammy Award
(via Classic Rock) by Johnny Black When prog rockers Jethro Tull pipped Metallica to win Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Recording award in 1989, most in the audience started laughing. Some of them haven’t...
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Songs You May Have Missed #718
Maddy Prior: “Gutter Geese” (1978) From Maddy Prior’s 1978 Ian Anderson-produced solo album Woman in the Wings comes this cheery Britfolk-flavoured ditty. And yes, that’s Ian Anderson taking the flute...
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Quora: Why is Jethro Tull not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Why is Jethro Tull not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? (Answered by Sandro Kovalev) Mostly it’s because of politics…the nominating commitee (or inner circle, if you will) of this institution...
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“The day I ask the audience to sing my songs I might as well go home. It’s...
© Getty Images When Jethro Tull released The Broadsword And The Beast in 1982, many of their fans breathed a sigh of relief: it seemed their favourite band had returned to their more traditional folk...
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Ian Anderson Voted Best Rock n Roll Flautist For 55th Year in a Row
(via Madhouse magazine) Ian Anderson, of the band Jethro Tull has been named the best Rock n Roll flute player aka flautist for the 55th consecutive year. The honor was unanimous and Anderson also...
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