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Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson Says Legendary Rocker, 82, Never Had Great Vocal Skills originally appeared on Parade. Mick Jagger ...
In a recent interview, the British singer and flutist also spoke about other lead singers' difficulties with their health.
Point taken about Jagger’s singing style, but surely the Stones frontman (who turned 82 on Saturday) deserves some respect ...
Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Aug. 10-16 include singer Madonna, actor Debra Messing from “Will & Grace” ...
Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull performs on stage at the Wembley Empire Pool in London, on June 22, 1973 ...
In 2013, three decades after Jethro Tull mastermind Ian Anderson released his first solo album, Walk Into Light, he was assembling what would become his sixth outing, Homo Erraticus. That year he ...
“I think we all knew instinctively that Aqualung was going to be an important album,” Ian Anderson tells Classic Rock of Jethro Tull's 1971 hit album. “It would either be the next step up or ...
Curious Ruminant is Jethro Tull ’s third in the three years since Ian Anderson relaunched the band with 2022’s The Zealot Gene. It finds the frontman in a more contemplative lyrical mode than ...
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 ...
Ian Anderson and Martin Barre of Jethro Tull onstage in 1982, with Barre soloing on his Hamer doublecut – and Anderson looking wild.
“He was a guy without whom probably Jethro Tull would never have gotten started,” Anderson told Smashing Interviews magazine in 2017. “We were there for 12 or 13 weeks on that first tour.
For a good half-century, the list of notable rock/pop flute players largely began and ended with Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull. In recent years, he says, he’s finally noticed a new one on the scene.