Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick 1972 vintage LP original pressing foldout cover
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Description
This record is about 90% VG+ and 10% VG with some crackles in the lead-in track and the first minute of each side. The original gatefold cover and newspaper insert is in excellent condition with no tears or folds.
Thick as a Brick is the fifth studio album by the British rock band Jethro Tull, released in March 1972.The album contains a continuous piece of music, split over two sides of an LP record, and is a parody of the concept album genre. The original packaging, designed like a newspaper, claims the album to be a musical adaptation of an epic poem by fictional eight-year-old genius Gerald Bostock, though the lyrics were actually written by the band's surreal English humor of Monty Python as an influence, he began to write a piece that would combine complex music with a sense of humor, with the idea it would poke light-hearted fun at the band, the audience, and the music critics. He also intended to satirize the progressive rock genre that was popular at the time.
Anderson has also said that "the album was a spoof to the albums of Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, much like what the movie Airplane! had been to Airport" and later remarked that it was a "bit of a satire about the whole concept of grand rock-based concept albums". Although Anderson wrote all the music and lyrics, he co-credited the writing to a fictional schoolboy named Gerald Bostock. The humor was subtle enough that some fans believed that Bostock was real. Reviewing the 40th anniversary reissue, Noel Murray suggested that many listeners of the original album "missed the joke".
This record will be carefully packed in a professional record mailer and shipped to you free of charge via USPS media mail.
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