Jethro Tull already had made three albums when Aqualung was released on March 19, 1971. But none of those records had the force, songs or lasting influence that their breakthrough LP almost ...

Jethro Tull’s “Aqualung” is a member of a fairly small group of songs that achieved immense popularity despite lasting well over five minutes. Maybe it’s guitarist Martin Barre’s hard-edged opening ...

Many bands test out different styles of music over the course of an entire album, switching it up from song to song. Jethro Tull could shift genres several times in the course of a single song, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Anderson explained in a 1999 interview with Guitar World, Aqualung wasn't originally meant to be a concept album, "although a ...

Classic rock fans still sometimes pause when the guitar solo from "Aqualung" comes on. Yes, we've heard Jethro Tull's 1971 song a thousand times before, but we still marvel at the solo's poetry, its ...

The '70s were a pretty great decade for amazing guitar solos, obviously: With legends like Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix and Brian May at the heights of their careers, how could it not have been? But ...