Thick as a Brick Really Don't Mind / See There a Son Is Born (5:00) The Poet and the Painter (5:29) What Do You Do When the Old Man's Gone? / From the Upper Class (5:25) You Curl Your Toes in Fun / ...

To hear Ian Anderson tell it, first in 1988 and again this week, the aural teddy bear known as Jethro Tull endures. True, that “bear” may now look a bit worse for wear, but its music — a fusion of ...

Jethro Tull's follow-up to their breakthrough Aqualung album was Thick as a Brick. The LP was as notable for its packaging as much as the music it contained. In fact, it was just about the most ...

A concept album about 8-year-old schoolboy Gerald Bostock and his struggles in life, 1972's Thick as a Brick cemented Jethro Tull as prog-rock icons. And yet the British group never played the entire ...

Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson is offering fans a rare treat next year -- he'll undertake a world tour and perform the No. 1 album 'Thick as a Brick' in its entirety for the first time since 1972. That ...

One of Jethro Tull's classic records, 'Thick as a Brick,' celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and Ultimate Classic Rock is giving you the opportunity to win the new vinyl box set version of the ...

“Really don’t mind if you sit this one out,” Ian Anderson sings at the start of the 1972 Jethro Tull progressive-rock album “Thick as a Brick.” He was singing with a wink in his voice. That album – ...

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“And your wise men don’t know how it fe-e-e-ee-els … to be thick as a brick:” Ian Anderson, 1972 When Ian Anderson started writing Jethro Tull’s 1972 classic Thick As A Brick, he envisioned it as a ...

I was recently on a road trip, cruising along and listening to the classic rock station on Sirius XM. There was an interview with Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson where he explained the title “Thick as a ...