War Child (album)

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Was child
Studio album by Jethro Tull

Publication
(s)

1974

Label (s) Chrysalis

Format (s)

LP , CD

Genre (s)

Progressive rock

Title (number)

10 + 7

running time

38:51 (64:55 with bonus tracks)

occupation
  • John Evan - piano, organ, synthesizer, piano accordion

production

Ian Anderson , Terry Ellis

Studio (s)

Morgan Studios in London 1974 (except tracks 6, 7 and 8 in August 1972)

chronology
A Passion Play
(studio album 1973) 		Was child Minstrel in the Gallery
(studio album 1975)

War Child is the seventh studio album and also the eighth work by the progressive rock band Jethro Tull . It was released in October 1974. It reached # 14 in the UK and # 2 in the US.

album

Most of the songs on the album were written during the second half of the Passion Play tour. However, there are also earlier recordings on the album, because War Child was written before A Passion Play and Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day , Bungle in the Jungle and Only Solitaire are pieces from the so-called Château D'isaster tapes .

The album was planned as music for a film project, but the idea was not implemented.

The front part of the record sleeve shows Ian Anderson in the colors blue and white with an Aquila , which bears the name of the band and album, in front of a picture of a nocturnal, modern city in purple-orange tones. The back shows the band members and 14 other people who are related to the songs on the album, including in the center of the picture a little girl holding a machine gun, a skater, four young women in hot pants , a nun, two rugby players and a woman disguised as Queen Elizabeth I , knighting a man, and a sea ​​lion doing ball training. Anderson also holds the Aquila here, but is in the background. The additional people include Anderson's future wife Shona and other relatives and friends of the musicians.

In addition to the five musicians of Jethro Tull, members of the Philamusica in London can be heard as an orchestra , conducted by David Palmer .

Track list

Original edition

page A

  1. WarChild  - 4:33
  2. Queen and Country  - 2:59
  3. Ládies  - 3:16
  4. Back-door Angels  - 5:30
  5. SeaLion  - 3:35

Side B

  1. Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day  - 4:02
  2. Bungle in the Jungle  - 3:34
  3. Only Solitaire  - 1:28
  4. The Third Hoorah  - 4:47
  5. Two Fingers  - 5:07

Extra title

In 2002 a revised CD with extra titles was released:

  2. Warchild Waltz  - 4:21
  3. Quartet  - 2:44
  4. Paradise Steakhouse  - 4:03
  5. Sealion 2  (Anderson / Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond ) - 3:20
  6. Rainbow Blues  - 3:40
  7. Glory Row  - 3:35
  8. Saturation  - 4:21

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official Jethro Tull website , accessed on January 23, 2016
  2. ↑ War Child on j-tull.com; Button on the right ( Memento from May 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (archive version)
Jethro Tull
Mick Abrahams • Don Airey • Martin Allcock • Barriemore Barlow • Martin Barre • Clive Bunker • Paul Burgess • Gerry Conway • Glenn Cornick • Mark Craney • John Evan • Andrew Giddings • John Glascock • David Goodier • Jeffrey Hammond • Tony Iommi • Eddie Jobson • Dave Mattacks • Jonathan Noyce • John O'Hara • Florian Opahle • Dee Palmer • Dave Pegg • Doane Perry • Peter-John Vettese • Tony Williams
Studio albums

This Was • Stand Up • Benefit • Aqualung • Thick as a Brick • A Passion Play • War Child • Minstrel in the Gallery • Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die! • Songs from the Wood • Heavy Horses • Stormwatch • A • The Broadsword and the Beast • Under Wraps • Crest of a Knave • Rock Island • Catfish Rising • Roots to Branches • J-Tull Dot Com • The Jethro Tull Christmas Album