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"He was definitely a component part of what informed the vocals of Robert Plant and Ian Gillan": Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson on the bluesman who inspired the great rock singers

Chicago guitarist and singer-songwriter JB Lenoir avoidedblues cliches to tackle politics and social justice in his lyrics,influencing a whole generation of classic rock acts

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“I felt so embarrassed for him and I didn’t want to make things even worse”: Ian Anderson, the man who refused to meet Elvis Presley

The King had just staged his comeback and Jethro Tull were touring breakthrough album Stand Up – but when the ‘invitation’ came to greet Presley, Anderson resisted

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“I just had to tell him, ‘You’ve outdone me, you bugger!’” Iron Maiden used to merely hint at their prog credentials… now they flaunt them

A selection of the NWOBHM veterans’ longest, deepest and weirdest tracks – and they weren’t all written by Steve Harris

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"It feels like a dream." Opeth reveal new concept album The Last Will And Testament will be released in October

Opeth's The Last Will And Testament features guest appearances from Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson and Europe's Joey Tempest

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Watch Ian Anderson unbox his new solo career set 8314 Boxed

Ian Anderson 8314 Boxed collects all of the Jethro Tull man's solo albums plus a disc of unreleased live material

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“I was always the lowest common denominator… but occasionally less can be more”: Jeffrey Hammond’s five years with Jethro Tull

Bassist contributed to some of the band’s most definitive works – but ultimately couldn’t resist the call of another art form

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“He sent me home in a taxi with a towel”: Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson once threw up on Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan’s shoes

The Iron Maiden man deems the messy faux pas the most embarrassing moment of his life

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“I tried to persuade Steven Wilson we should give that one a miss on the remix series!” Ian Anderson still detests the mindless sax of Jethro Tull’s A Passion Play

Horrified by sessions in a French chateau, they went home, dumped the work they’d done on their Thick As A Brick follow-up and started again. The result was a Marmite production that inspired split rumours

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“I couldn't afford a set of strings, so I'd play the same strings for about six months... and then boil them, so all the crap would come off them, and they'd sound almost new again”: Geezer Butler on Sabbath’s cash-strapped early days

Geezer Butler talks about Black Sabbath's early days

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“Crystal-clear stereo separation, a much fuller and warmer sound… Steven Wilson’s remaster is a huge improvement”: Jethro Tull’s Bursting Out – The Inflated Edition

Bookset series turns to the band’s first live release, which showcases Ian Anderson as zany ringmaster

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Ten-disc Ian Anderson solo box set to be released in August

8314 Boxed collects all of Ian Anderson solo alums plus a disc of unreleased live material

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"As slick as Jethro Tull got": The Inflated Edition of Jethro Tull's Bursting Out finds Ian Anderson & Co. finds them in fine form

Jethro Tull's 1978 live double album, newly pumped up

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"Jamming out – I call it jerking off": Why Honeymoon Suite's new songs will not be messed with when they're played live

Honeymoon Suite frontman Johnnie Dee on politics, car accidents, and that time he flew to Canada and missed out on meeting Ian Anderson

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Ian Anderson features on new Louise Patricia Crane single Tiny Bard

Prog singer songwriter Louise Patricia Crane will release her new solo album Netherworld in June

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"Somebody has to be the kind of songwriter who doesn’t give a shit if he gets called pretentious." Ian Anderson on the inspiration behind Jethro Tull's RökFlöte

After a gap of more than 20 years, Jethro Tull returned with their second album of new material this decade. RökFlöte finds the band exploring Norse mythology with a harder edge than last year’s The Zealot Gene

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Ian Anderson, Al Di Meola, John Helliwell, Simon Phillips and more guest on new Mandoki Soulmates album

Hungarian musician and 'friend of the stars' Leslie Mandoki releases new Mandoki Soulmates album A Memory Of Our Future in May

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“It marked Jethro Tull as being quite different to most bands… Led Zeppelin didn’t do comedy. Well, not intentionally”: Ian Anderson kept up the silly and sarcastic on solo album Homo Erraticus

2014 title featured another outing for Gerald Bostock, and indulged the band leader’s passion for being an “amateur flute player”

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Jethro Tull announce six-disc Bursting Out - The Inflated Edition

Jethro Tull's three CD/three DVD reissue of Bursting Out will be released in June

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The manager said, ‘Ian Anderson and the boys don’t want you in the band so you’ve been fired.’ I replied, ‘How can you fire me when I quit three weeks ago?’” Mick Abrahams’ life after Jethro Tull

Health issues have made it almost impossible for Blodwyn Pig founder to play guitar – but he maintains ”it could be worse”

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“Martin is doing his own stuff. He should be having a whale of a time, instead of being embittered about Jethro Tull”: Ian Anderson seemingly rules out the prospect of a ‘Tull reunion with Martin Barre

Anderson doesn't think a reunion with Barre “would make the atmosphere within the band very easy”

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"Things were gloriously easy back in 1969 because we only had two albums. Things are now much more tortuous": Ian Anderson on touring, bedbugs and Martin Barre

Jethro Tull are about to play 10 UK shows, and band leader Ian Anderson is hitting the rails rather than the road

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“Others’ expectations kept me from taking it seriously for a long time… Some will say, ‘What is this old prat on about?’ but I don’t give a damn”: Why Ian Anderson took the risk of making Thick As A Brick 2

In exploring what could have happened to Gerald Bostock – the child prodigy of the 1972 Jethro Tull album – he explored where else his own life might have taken him

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‘Sadistic’ Edinburgh teacher found to have assaulted pupils for 20 years

John Brownlee conducted campaign of violence and torture against children as young as eight, sheriff finds

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“It might be significant that my two favourite pieces of music of all time are Supper’s Ready and Thick As A Brick”: What Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris learned from prog

The guiding light of NWOBHM geeks out on Peter Gabriel leaving Genesis, covering Jethro Tull but not wanting to meet Ian Anderson, the length of ELP solos, his struggle to get into Marillion and more

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“I still buy a new album and flick through it trying to find the weepy ballad – but for God’s sake, I was in Mostly Autumn for 13 years!” Heather Findlay’s affection for melancholy

Singer songwriter Heather Findlay discusses her album Wild White Horses

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