A passion play
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Publication |
July 1973 |
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| Label (s) | Chrysalis | |||
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Title (number) |
2 |
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running time |
44:58 |
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Studio (s) |
Morgan Studios, London |
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A Passion Play is a much discussed concept album by the British progressive rock band Jethro Tull . It is the seventh work of the band and also the sixth studio album.
prehistory
At the beginning of 1973 Jethro Tull took for tax reasons near Paris in Château on a new album D'Herouville. The recordings were a fiasco for technical, production-related and health reasons. The recording sessions did not end and the band promptly returned to the UK . The recordings were not continued after that either. Instead, Jethro Tull decided to start over. Still, some of the songs from those recording sessions formed the basis of A Passion Play , especially the music. The later albums War Child and Minstrel in the Gallery also contain parts of these recordings. The tapes became known under the joking name of Château D'isaster tapes and appeared in part in 1988 on 20 Years Of Jethro Tull and more extensively in 1993 on Nightcap.
album
When the album A Passion Play was released in 1973 , it reached number 1 on the US charts, although it received mostly poor reviews. The allegedly diffuse text and the more complex music and also the more difficult story than its predecessor Thick As a Brick were criticized . Thematically, the completely continuous album deals with topics such as rebirth and eternal life. In the surrealist center piece, the story of a rabbit who lost his glasses is told in the form of a fable . Numerous animals seek help until it occurs to the rabbit that he has spare glasses. The spokesman for the fable is Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond , who wrote it together with Anderson and Evan.
Track list
Original edition
Page A:
A Passion Play, Part I (21:36)
Side B:
A Passion Play, Part II (23:32)
MFSL Gold version
- Lifebeats (1:13)
- Prelude (2:13)
- The Silver Cord (4:29)
- Re-Assuring Tune (1:11)
- Memory Bank (4:19)
- Best Friends (1:58)
- Critique Oblique (4:37)
- Forest Dance # 1 (1:34)
- The Story Of The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles (4:17)
- Forest Dance # 2 (1:12)
- The Foot Of Our Stairs (4:17)
- Overseer Overture (3:59)
- Flight From Lucifer (3:57)
- 10:08 From Paddington (1:04)
- Magus Perde (3:55)
- Epilogue (0:42)
Web links
- Reviews of A Passion Play on the baby blue pages
- A Passion Play - The Official Jethro Tull Website
- Ministry of Information - Text Analysis and Interpretation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond on the Jethro-Tull website , accessed December 22, 2015