“It’s no good the older generation, of which I am part, simply saying, ‘I’ll be dead by the time this becomes a crisis.’ No; we are the generation who created the problem, and we swept it under the ...

Jethro Tull delivered their first British Top 10 in 1969. That same song gave them a US Top 40, but only three years later.

Ian Anderson is understandably pleased Jethro Tull — the pioneering progressive-rock band he founded and has led since 1967 — has sold more than 60 million albums worldwide and is now embarked on the ...

The Tull lineup on record: Scott Hammond, John O'Hara, Ian Anderson, Florian Ophale, and David Goodier. Credit: Photo by Sylvia Finke/Courtesy of Chipster PR As the band’s co-founder, front ...

The video was directed by Sam Chegini and begins with the famous illustration of the old man on the Aqualung album cover before expanding into a stark and often devastating meditation on homelessness, ...

Jethro Tull have announced that they will release their 24th studio album, Curious Ruminant, through InsideOut Music on March 7. At the same time the band have shared a new video for the album's title ...

Frontman Ian Anderson recorded Curious Ruminant with Jethro Tull’s current lineup, with additional contributions from two former members of the band. Anderson sang lead and played flute, guitar, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. Jethro Tull: (top row, L-R) Ian Anderson and David Goodier (bottom row, ...

From the beginning, Jethro Tull has been, to quote one of their songs, "Skating away on the thin ice of a new day." Even in an era when progressive rock defied many music critics and won audiences ...

Of the nearly 55 years that Jethro Tull has existed as rock ‘n’ roll’s ambassador of flute-driven English folk music, 45 of those years were driven by the muscular guitar battery of Martin Barre. With ...

Flute magician Ian Anderson has cemented his legendary status in the music industry. His signature playing pushed rock in a new experimental direction and gave his band Jethro Tull a huge worldwide ...

Inspired by The Beatles, Jethro Tull formed in the U.K. to write music and cashed in on sounds that progressive rock bands like Cream, Led Zeppelin and King Crimson were pioneering in the mid-to-late ...