What Came Next...Jethro Tull "A Passion Play"

Face the Music: An Electric Light Orchestra Song-By-Song Podcast (And Other Shows) · Mar 24, 2025 · 8m

Although it was a parody of progressive rock (Ian Anderson wasn't too happy about Aqualung being lumped in with such,) Thick As a Brick reached number one on the Billboard 200 despite the fact the album was one song that took up two sides of the record. Efforts to do a follow-up at the Château d'Hérouville in rural France proved fruitless, being renamed by Anderson and crew "Château d'Isaster" and the entire album they had planned abandoned. Returning to the UK they quickly recorded A Passion Play. What was supposed to be a concept album of mini-suites following a man's journey through the…