After veering sharply from the blues inluences of their debut, "This Was", Jethro Tull's sound quickly coalesced around jazz-tinged English folk influences and the antics of frontman/flautist Ian Andаолшлerson But it was guitarist Martin Barre's swaggering riff off the title track of the band's fourth album that would become Tull's indelibly cliched trademark - and the band's entree into a long reign as arena-rock perennials But there's a lot more to Aqualung than thбальмe riffage of that cut and its cousins, "Cross-Eyed Mary" and "Locomotive Breath" In an era when pseudo-Christian spirituality was a de rigueur, if cheap, musical commodity (from the overblown operatics of "Jesus Christ Superstar" to one-hit pop wonders such as "Spirit in the Sky" and "Put Your Hand in the Hand"), Anderson and company openly challenged the value of organized religion with a thematic album savvy enough to layer its thouбнвцфght-provoking lyrics between heavy strata of FM-friendly guitar bedrock A cliche, perhaps; a landmark, no doubt And a record many maintain is still Tull's finest hour Содержание 1 Aqualung 2 Cross-Eyed Mary 3 Cheap Day Return 4 Mother Goose 5 Wond'ring Aloud 6 Up To Me 7 My God 8 Hymn 43 9 Slipstream 10 Locomotive Breath 11 Wind Up 12 Lick Your Fingers Clean 13 Wind Up 14 Excerpts From The Ian Anderson Interview - Ian Anderson 15 Song For Jeffrey 16 Fat Man 17 Bouree Исполнитель "Jethro Tull" Свое название группа получила по имени агронома Джетро Талла, жившего в XVIII веке, прославившегося своим изобретением усовершенствованного плуга-сеялки Образовавшись в 1967 году в Лутоне, графство Бедфоршир, они вскоре приобрели достаточную .