JETHRO TULL’S THICK AS A BRICK HITS 50

Released in 1972, Tull’s classic ‘spoof’ concept album is getting a birthday vinyl reissue, complete with its original, iconic packaging. Ian Anderson remembers it well.

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Jethro Tull’s classic Thick As A Brick was released 50 years ago, on March 3, 1972. To commemorate this anniversary, Warner Music is reissuing the album on vinyl, complete with the original St Cleve Chronicle & Linwell Advertiser newspaper packaging (pictured right). While the record and its iconic cover are now part of prog lore, Ian Anderson recalls that, back in the day, the band’s label, Chrysalis, took some convincing about it. “The label weren’t exactly sure about the cover…” “I think it scared the proverbial out of them,” he tells Prog, “because of the music, and the album cover that I came up. They weren’t exactly sure about the wisdom of it. Happily, it was proven to be instrumental in the success of the record. The presentation of the album in…

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