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Jethro Tull: He's Embarrassed and Great

Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 1970

ALL THE hoopla about Jethro Tull, including stories in Life, Time, Jazz & Pop and other influential magazines, is justified. Jethro Tull is the best rock group to come along since The Who. The Who is good to use in comparison because of their theatrics. The Who's Peter Townshend is respected as a composer and musician, but originally gained fame as a guitar-smashing, stage-wrecking, bomb-exploding leader of a group which followed its leader's antics. In Jethro Tull, the scene-stealer is Ian Anderson.

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