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[Satire] “I Interviewed Him and He Denied Ever Hearing the Album. I Find that Somewhat Hard to Believe”: Did Jethro Tull Inspire a Character in Spinal Tap? The Actor Says No. Ian Anderson’s Not so Sure
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Ian Anderson had something to say when he thought of Jethro Tull’s fifth studio album. He wanted the work to act as a response to the 1971 “Aqualung” reviews. They had generally been positive, but he was called a concept album. “Conceptual album? No,” the band’s leader and multi-instrumentist tells Ultimate Classic Rock. “They were just a bunch of songs, and two or three of them had a link. When I came to make the execution order and work on the…
“I interviewed him and he denied ever hearing the album. I find that somewhat hard to believe”: Did Jethro Tull inspire a character in Spinal Tap? The actor says no. Ian Anderson’s not so sure
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