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Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick

Stuart celebrates Jethro Tull's seminal album Thick as a Brick, following the announcement that the group will be performing the entire record live for the first time since 1972.

Following the announcement that Jethro Tull are performing their entire Thick As A Brick album live for the first time since 1972 in April this year, Stuart celebrates this seminal album in the history of British popular music.

Written to quash their critics who insisted they were a prog rock band, Ian Anderson decided to make the best prog album ever, but as a parody of the genre. Intended as a spoof, it was developed around the concept of a fictional child poet Gerald Bostock, an intelligent school boy who wrote about the trails of growing up.

Thick As A Brick expanded on The Tull's signature line-up (rock band plus flute) with a wealth of orchestral instruments and was recorded as one single 40-minute piece of music split over two sides of an LP. It was an instant success, reaching the top five in both US and UK charts.

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Sun 4 Mar 2012 18:00
大象传媒 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Rune Overman

    Smorgasbord

    • Stacy.

  • Dustin Wong

    Anniversary Song

    • Watercolor.

  • Jethro Tull

    Thick As A Brick; Part One

    • Chrysalis.

  • From The Bogs Of Aughiska

    Crosswinds

    • Silence Records.

  • 脛lgarnas tr盲dg氓rd

    Children Of Possibilites

    • Silence Records.

  • Keith Everett

    Conscientious Objector

    • Ting Records.

  • Jethro Tull

    Thick As A Brick; Part One (continued)

    • Chrysalis.

  • FC Judd

    Perpetua

    • Public Information.

  • Rune Lindblad

    Nocturne

    • Pogus.

  • Tasavallan Presidentti

    Last Quarters

    • Love Records.

  • Edzayawa

    Darkness

    • Soundway Records Ltd.

  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk

    Serenade To A Cuckoo

    • Verve Records.

  • Balam Acab

    Oh Why

    • Tri Angle.

  • The Caretaker

    Tiny Gradiations Of Loss

    • History Always Favours The Winners.

  • Peter Wyngarde

    Neville Thumbcatch

    • RPM Records.

  • Portico Quartet

    Lacker Boo (大象传媒 Session Track)

  • Jethro Tull

    Thick As A Brick; Part Two (excerpt)

    • Chrysalis.

  • Braids

    Lammicken

    • Kanine.

Broadcast

  • Sun 4 Mar 2012 18:00
    大象传媒 Radio 6 Music