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Jethro Tull, celebrating 30 glorious years. 224 pages. In shops now (isbn 0 946719 22 5 published by Fire Fly/Helter Skelter) or mail order from A New Day for £12.99 UPDATE: PLEASE NOTE THE BOOK IS SOLD OUT. SOME COPIES MAY STILL BE AVAILABLE IN SHOPS OR FROM AMAZON.COM. WE HOPE TO HAVE THE BOOK AVAILABLE AGAIN NEXT YEAR. POSTAGE £1 UK £2.00 Europe £3.50 elsewhere. For over thirty years Jethro Tull have ploughed a furrow that is uniquely their own. Many have tried to categorise their sound - but few descriptions have succeeded in summing up their eclectic brand of music.The driving force has always been the fiercely independant and articulate Ian Anderson. A man of many parts, his fans have followed him from the tramp character of Aqualung, through the minstrel of a Passion Play, to the country squire of Heavy Horses and into the nineties as an elder statesman of rock music. Amazingly, after millions of record sales and countless worldwide sold-out tours, this is the first English language biography of the band. David Rees has spent a number of years editing the Jethro Tull magazine A New Day and as much is the ideal chronicler of the Tull tale. Adding a welcome dash of wit and irony to a celebration of the band's music, Minstrels In The Gallery is the complete guide to the world of Jethro Tull. REVIEWS Whatever their successes, and however unique Anderson's song writing, Jethro Tull are widely perceived as a minority-interest act, hard to mythologise as rock stars and impossible to reclaim for posterity as an act with the cultural impact of sexier contemporaries. David Rees, a brilliant, independently-minded fan magazine editor, doesn't attempt this. Instead he's interviewed all the key players and told the Tull story with zest and candour. For all the self-deflatory wit, Ian Anderson is a serious man and neither he nor Rees attempt to gloss over rarely lit corners of the story. A fine read for Tull fans and non-believers alike. COLIN HARPER, MOJO Remarkably, this is the first proper book about Jethro Tull, a scandalous omission which David Rees' straightforward but engrossing band history has finally put right. As the editor of the excellent Tullzine A New Day Rees has been granted intimate access to the band in recent years, but this is no blinkered paean of praise. The author manages to maintain both his enthusiasm and enough perspective to make his narrative believable, and his chronicling of the band's sometimes turbulent history is gripping without slipping into sensationalism. Essential reading for Tull's vast fan base, of course RECORD COLLECTOR MAGAZINE SORRY BOOK UNAVAILABLE AT THE MOMENT Price: £n/a # 000 |
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