The first time The Aquarian covered Jethro Tull was in 1971. It was a review for the career-defining concept album Aqualung.

After decades of only hitting No. 2, the band has finally reached that top spot on the charts with 'Curious Ruminant.' ...

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Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson says his new album ... are expressed much more than they would normally be in most of the lyrics I’ve written in my life. There’s a lot more I/me pronouns ...

Anderson has re-recorded parts of the song, and developed the lyrics. “It’s about the ... He plans to dip into Curious Ruminant when Jethro Tull tour this year, though he doesn’t expect ...

writing lyrics or music. When the time feels right to do it, it comes in a rush and it builds momentum and it’s unstoppable.” Anderson - who is the flautist and vocalist for Jethro Tull ...

He said: “That makes up 95 per cent of what song lyrics are about. From Shakespeare’s sonnets through to today, it’s the human condition and the sense of emotions. It’s about being in love or out of ...

Jethro Tull. Curious Ruminant ... Carpet Burn builds from revelatory lyrics to an irresistible refrain. Breezy charmer Daisies shows he does upbeat too.

Find out more about how we review. He’ll be 78 later this year, but with European tour dates ongoing and his third Tull album in under four years, Ian Anderson is on something of a later-years ...

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Since Ian Anderson revived Jethro Tull in 2022 with The Zealot Gene, the band's first album of new material in more than two decades, the veteran progressive folk-rockers have been on a roll.