Description
Benefit - Jethro Tull / Pop Classic / Audio CD
UPC 5998490701208
Product Details:
Benefit is the third studio album by the British rock band Jethro Tull, released in April 1970. It was the first Tull album to include pianist and organist John Evan – though he was not yet considered a permanent member of the group – and the last to include bass guitarist Glenn Cornick who was fired from the band upon completion of touring for the album. It was recorded at Morgan Studios, the same studio where the band recorded its previous album Stand Up however the band experimented with more advanced recording techniques.
Frontman Ian Anderson said that he considers Benefit to be a much darker album than Stand Up, owing to the pressures of an extensive U.S. tour and frustration with the music business.
Tracklist:
| 1 | With You There To Help Me | 6:24 |
| 2 | Nothing To Say | 5:16 |
| 3 | Inside | 2:51 |
| 4 | Son | 2:55 |
| 5 | For Michael Collins, Jeffrey And Me |
3:56 |
| 6 | To Cry You A Song | 6:16 |
| 7 | A Time For Everything? | 2:47 |
| 8 | Teacher | 3:50 |
| 9 |
Play In Time | 3:51 |
| 10 | Sossity; You're A Woman | 4:42 |
More Details:
- Artwork [Graphic Presentation By] – Ken Reilly
- Bass – Glenn Cornick
- Design [Cover] – Ruan O'Lochlainn, Terry Ellis
- Drums – Clive Bunker
- Engineer – Robin Black
- Executive-Producer – Terry Ellis
- Guitar – Martin Barre
- Photography By – Ruan O'Lochlainn
- Piano, Organ – John Evan
- Producer – Ian Anderson
- Vocals, Flute – Ian Anderson
- Written-By – Ian Anderson
About the Band:
Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire, in 1967. Initially playing blues rock and jazz fusion, the band later developed their sound to incorporate elements of hard rock and folk to forge a progressive rock signature. The band is led by vocalist/flautist/guitarist Ian Anderson, and has featured a revolving door of lineups through the years including significant members such as guitarists Mick Abrahams and Martin Barre, keyboardists John Evan and Dee Palmer, drummers Clive Bunker, Barriemore Barlow, and Doane Perry, and bassists Glenn Cornick, Jeffrey Hammond, John Glascock, and Dave Pegg.
The group first achieved commercial success in 1969, with the folk-tinged electric blues album Stand Up, which reached No. 1 in the UK, and they toured regularly in the UK and the US. Their musical style shifted in the direction of progressive rock with the albums Aqualung (1971), Thick as a Brick (1972) and A Passion Play (1973), and shifted again to hard rock mixed with folk rock with Songs from the Wood (1977) and Heavy Horses (1978). After an excursion into electronic rock in the early-to-mid 1980s, the band won its sole Grammy Award with the 1987 album Crest of a Knave. Jethro Tull have sold an estimated 60 million albums worldwide, with 11 gold and five platinum albums among them. They have been described by Rolling Stone as "one of the most commercially successful and eccentric progressive rock bands".
The last works as a group to contain new material were released in 2003, though the band continued to tour until 2011. Anderson said Jethro Tull were finished in 2014; however, in September 2017 he announced plans for a tour to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the band's first album This Was. The compilation 50 for 50 was released in 2018.
The reformed group—now billed as "Ian Anderson and the Jethro Tull band"—still performs live, and has announced tour dates into 2020. The current band line-up includes musicians who have been members of Anderson's solo band since 2012.
