I used the blues to open doors into the music business, to get an audience,” Tull’s frontman tells us. “And a record deal.” ...

Their fourth album, a prophetic masterpiece and best-selling work, made them stars – but its creation wasn’t easy ...

In the summer of 1971, a sold-out Jethro Tull concert in Colorado turned chaotic, with tear gas, tension and violence, until singer Ian Anderson calmed it down ...

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.

A look at how Jethro Tull went from a common or garden blues band to the proudly esoteric folk-rock band we know today, via ...

Live music is one of the most important aspects of sound, but there are gig rules that people need to follow, as Ian Anderson ...

Jethro Tull’s Thick as a Brick wasn’t just an elaborate concept album—it was an artistic experiment that mocked and celebrated progressive rock at the same time. While the music itself was a ...

Though the hard-rocking Crest of a Knave (1987) threw up a couple of proggy near-classics, it’s safe to say the latest disc is also Tull’s most accomplished album of wholly new material for decades, ...

Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson has never taken drugs to inspire his music. The 77-year-old musician has been the sole constant member of the rock band since 1967 and has spent a lifetime on the road ...

Jethro Tull singer Ian Anderson said he felt a sense of “desperation” to create new music as he was growing older, ahead of the band’s latest album release. The rock band’s new album ...