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PublisherSoundcheck Books Llp

ISBN-100957144245

ISBN-139780957144248

eBay Product ID (ePID)143612068

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Book TitlePassion Play : the Story of Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull

Number of Pages226 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicComposers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Rock

Publication Year2013

IllustratorYes

GenreMusic, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorBrian Rabey

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight14.8 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width7.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingA

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal782.42166092

SynopsisIn the summer of 1972 Jethro Tull hit the dizzy heights of number one in the Billboard album charts, and thus could lay claim to being the world's biggest band at the time, with Thick As A Brick. They repeated the feat the next year with A Passion Play and have sold over 60 million albums to date. Considering just how big this group is (they are still going to this day, of course) there is surprisingly little written about them - only a couple of books, which is scandalous when you consider how many books have been written about their contemporaries . This book is a gem containing interviews with band members such as Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, John Evans, Martin Barre and... of course Ian Anderson. In fact, this book may well contain the longest interview Anderson has ever given. Biographer Brian Rabey and Anderson really hit it off, possibly because Brian helped the latter recover his beloved harmonica which was stolen backstage - something Anderson never forgot. Brian was given access all areas and used this wisely. Via new interviews he traces the history of a band which started life as the Blades, briefly included Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi (his plastic finger tips grafted on after an accident didn't lend themselves to playing Tull's subtle music ), and went on to become Prog Rock royalty (or Elizabethan Rock as they were sometimes dubbed ), but constantly re-invented itself with new personnel and styles. Due to Brian's contact book there are also quotes from contemporaries such as Greg Lake and John Wetton, which really helps to put things in context. Another really appealing aspect of the book is that it looks at the landscape of the times - for example, the flat Tull lived in during the 1960s would be regarded as unfit for human habitation today. A final nice touch is that several band members have sent photographs from their personal collections making this a unique book., A gem containing interviews with band members such as John Evans, Glenn Cornick, Martin Barre and of course, Ian Anderson. With the help of fascinating new interviews by Rabey, he traces the history of a band which started life as the Blades, briefly included Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi and went on to become Prog Rock royalty. The band constantly re-invented itself with new personnel and styles from blues, to folk to heavy rock and more. Full of quotes from contemporaries to put the band in context and photographs from the band's private collection, this is a must for fans., In the summer of 1972 Jethro Tull hit the dizzy heights of number one in the Billboard album charts, and thus could lay claim to being the world's biggest band at the time, with Thick As A Brick. They repeated the feat the next year with A Passion Play and have sold over 60 million albums to date. Considering just how big this group is (they are still going to this day, of course) there is surprisingly little written about them -- only a couple of books, which is scandalous when you consider how many books have been written about their contemporaries . This book is a gem containing interviews with band members such as Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, John Evans, Martin Barre and... of course Ian Anderson. In fact, this book may well contain the longest interview Anderson has ever given. Biographer Brian Rabey and Anderson really hit it off, possibly because Brian helped the latter recover his beloved harmonica which was stolen backstage -- something Anderson never forgot. Brian was given access all areas and used this wisely. Via new interviews he traces the history of a band which started life as the Blades, briefly included Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi (his plastic finger tips grafted on after an accident didn't lend themselves to playing Tull's subtle music ), and went on to become Prog Rock royalty (or Elizabethan Rock as they were sometimes dubbed ), but constantly re-invented itself with new personnel and styles. Due to Brian's contact book there are also quotes from contemporaries such as Greg Lake and John Wetton, which really helps to put things in context. Another really appealing aspect of the book is that it looks at the landscape of the times - for example, the flat Tull lived in during the 1960s would be regarded as unfit for human habitation today. A final nice touch is that several band members have sent photographs from their personal collections making this a unique book.

LC Classification NumberML420.A5