The hardest rocking band ever to prominently feature a flute player.
Jethro Tull: Deep Cuts
Moments of enchanted beauty lie in the band's prog rock.
Inspired by Jethro Tull
The Brits influence both the electric and acoustic sides of prog.
Jethro Tull: Influences
A pastoral prog interweaving of blues, folk, and jazz roots.
About Jethro Tull
Artist Biography
English rock band Jethro Tull tried on half a dozen names and styles before frontman Ian Anderson switched from guitar to flute—a move that shaped their distinctive sound.
∙ Rolling Stone ranked Tull’s 1971 LP, Aqualung, among its 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
∙ Composed of a continuous, 43-minute track split over two sides, their fifth album, Thick As a Brick, improbably topped the US charts in 1972.
∙ Crest of a Knave, their 1987 album, won the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance, beating out Metallica, Jane’s Addiction, Iggy Pop, and AC/DC in the process.
∙ The group’s original four members reunited in 2002 for the first time in almost 35 years and released their one-off gig on the DVD Living With the Past.
∙ In 2008, Anderson was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his service to music.
∙ Over the course of their half-century career, the band has earned 11 Gold and 5 Platinum albums in the US.
Hometown
Blackpool, Lancashire, England
Genre
Rock
Members of Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull was formed on December 1967. Members of Jethro Tull include, or have included, the following 22 members.