Jethro Tull: A 'Minstrel' Bares His Soul
Steven Rosen, Circus Raves, November 1975
IAN ANDERSON IS twenty-eight years old today, a fact which pleases him none too greatly. The face is no betrayal of age; long and thin, it sports reddish brown hair and goatee and the earringed left lobe makes compar-isons to a pirate profile valid.
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