A new animated video for Jethro Tull’s 1971 classic “Aqualung” has been released.
Sam Chegini directed the video, which starts with the famous depiction of the old man on the Aqualung album cover before expanding into a stark and sometimes heartbreaking meditation on homelessness, from those living on public streets to refugees displaced across the world. Ian Anderson, the frontman of Jethro Tull, also makes a cameo appearance in the video, via a rotoscope animation effect.
Jethro Tull marked the 50th anniversary of Aqualung with a special livestream event in March, during which Anderson went track-by-track through the entire album. Jethro Tull is also commemorating the 40th anniversary of their album A this year with a three-CD, three-DVD box set that will be released on April 16th.
Anderson is working on a new book called “Silent Singing,” which will collect all of his lyrics from 1968’s This Was to Jethro Tull’s forthcoming new album, The Zealot Gene. The book will be released in June, but the album’s launch date has yet to be confirmed. Tull’s first album in nearly two decades, The Zealot Gene, follows a Christmas album released in 2003.
