Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull interviewed on GTK - 1974 

Ian looks like he just popped out of a 17th century painting as a noble British lord. 😊

Amazing songwriter, amazing singer, amazing artist. Clever man, eccentric, a real genius

I remember seeing Jethro Tull for the first time in 1972 and they opened with the full version of thick as a brick. I was blown away of course. They were so much better than any other act I had ever seen. I didn't know a band could be that good live.

What a good looking man, with a resonant voice too! Talent beyond belief singer,showman, charisma.instrument musician.

Ian is one of the most literate rockers. I could see him in another life as a University Professor of Literature. No doubt every coed would have a crush on him.

Absolute legend in every facet

i adore how he talks

wow he's a charismatic and inspiring Icon, very sharp cookie, Mr Anderson..

Simply superb!!! Everytime I watch this, I feel proud that Tull's my fave band and Ian's my favourite musician.

Ian Anderson never listened to any other music while he was recording or making music, he just focused on his music, WoW!. I have 2 Jethro TuLL tattoos and a cat named Jethro. seen them 5-times great band great leader!

I have no idea what he’s talking about but I’m riveted!! He was so sharp!

My God, he was so handsome.

Love his voice

I would have enjoyed to sit & just listen to Ian Anderson have a conversation with Robert Plant. I just love the way the two Englishman speak. "Everybody says YEAHHH! BASH!

Thank you for posting this. Very little of Ian and Tull exists on film from 1974.

A very well read person.

good lord he was gorgeous back then!!

Very down to earth, he's not full of himself like most rock stars are.

Such an intriguing bloke I think.Very clever man and a great musician too I think.

Ian is the type of guy I wanna have a dinner with!

Been listening to this guy for 40 years

This cat is only 26 or 27 here. He seems to be wise beyond his years....

Anderson is a hard working all business musician, composer, producer, writer and thoughtfully entertaining. Tull concerts in the 70s were quite a production and performance. Good seats were $5.50 to $6.50 old Boston Garden.

Great interview. I was addicted to JT in my youth. Quite a good band.

Ian. So lovely.

Ian at his sexiest.

superb ! thx for posting this gem.

Totally unique and hugely underrated. He is of another time. Simultaneous centuries behind and yet light-years ahead.

So good looking!

Amazing. Ian's voice and fluent and clear English is completely understandable all over the years, considering different interwievs from 1974, 1982 and 2014. That certainly does not happen with other musicians like Tony Banks, for example, I can't catch him since speaks too fast and with that kind of Charterhouse accent mid cockney. Greetings from Argentina for all the Jethro Tull's fans worlwide!

Legend...

"I didn't do very much history at school..." Funny, his essence IS history.

Ian doing his best Blackadder impression.

thanks..nice early interview

Holy hell his voice is amazing 🤩 damn why do rock and roll singers have a amazing voices? Oh I know why it’s because they are GODS!!!!

Wow. Look at Ian here. That is Ray from Too Old to Rock and Roll. Spitting image.

OMG what a GORGEOUS MAN he was❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I LOVE JETHRO TULL! 💎🌈💐

I could listen to him recite the Albanian telephone directory.

Thank you for posting this interesting link, Mr. Jeff... and thanks for including the specific locale & date details -- much appreciated by those who like to keep notes on such things for their own play lists. 📽 It beats the heck out of having to search for other similar videos, to get the details... such as whenever somebody only indicates "live 19xx"... and you have to figure out when & where in 19xx, etc. 🙄

He s looking good Ian great thanks uploader

6:22 Ian really liked the comparison of his movement on stage with Douglas Fairbanks and Errol Flynn.

Eines der allergrößten Genies.

great interview, these guys were in such a grind in the 70's, these up & comers would be sucking Ian's kneecaps if they had Tull's schedule...

He has a nice voice and he's intelligent and seems to make mature choices. That's sexy!

When this excellent Australian interview was undertaken, the album "War Child" was only a few months from release (on 14th October, to be exact). How Jethro Tull (& Ian Anderson!) have remained vital, contemporary… and irreplaceable!

Not gonna lie. I don't think I listened to a word he said. I tuned into his voice and gorgeous face. He's been my type for 35+ years now. He's so handsome.

He was so articulate.

How many great people like him (obviously not exactly) never got to become that great and still are vacuum cleaning cinema floors..? :/ Glad he made it ..😅 ❤

War Child Tour '74 into '75. Saw it at '74 in NZ at 19yrs best ever concert.

I could listen to him recite a grocery list !!

"Do you see JT being around for a long time to come? Yeah, I think it probably will be..."Ha ha, I'm watching this in Dec. 2018 and IA is celebrating 50th anniversary of JT touring the world! That's a good while! Pity he's kicked out Martin Barre, though.

Ian Anderson was the other rock god Robert Plant being his equal.

He has such an easy charisma!

There’s just something about this guy… wildly intelligent and wildly English.

Charming

Even better rather than relying on your recollection and memories show the old interviews. I know I definitely get mixed up, that was the other time kind of thing.🤠👍

Love the bloke

I was 14 in 1974, my first tull concert. Ian quit smoking.

Why do I get the feeling that the TV guy is being "taken in"? XD!

Effortlessly cool.

The Shakespeare of Rock…🎉

The psychological addiction of performing..even today 45 years later he still feels the need to tour even though he is so wealthy he doesn’t need to...even back then he knew he would be a survivor and win in life... perhaps not doing drugs helped... he was so deep and esoteric...the interviewer sure didn’t understand him or get his talent and was clueless about what a legend he would become

I didn't realise Ian was such a heavy smoker..

I love that Ian is a smoker. I LOVE that.

like frank zappa and rush, ian does, in another interview, explain his disdain toward drugs.

Gimme your jacket Ian! It rocks!

Unusual Ian!!! Adjusting to the 1960/1970's fashion by wearing long hair and a beard, but creating a more medieval than hippie look by doing this. Playing acoustic instruments and writing romantic but never schmaltzy music, because the romance was high class-- for example-- of folk and Renaissance nature. His looks? From gorgeous to almost ugly..... In this interview very handsome, on certain photographs everything but good looking.... In his "old age" (70 plus)... he hardly resembles his former self... Other great looking men, having become wrinkly and weathered, still are (were) their original type... (Bryan Ferry, Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery...)... Not so Ian. He turned into a very different kind of man. What I always liked was his political independence... Does he still possess it? All in all a very impressive talented and individual man.

looks like Lieutenant Dan

Sad to see Ian's chain smoking habit which, unfortunately, led to (I believe) throat surgery some 10 years later following Under Wraps and before Crest Of A Knave. His voice was never the same after that. Great interview, though.

I thought that "Jethro Tull" is a Charles Dickens character... confused it with "Uriah Heep"! ;)

Anderson's voice has become more mellow and deeper with age.

There's another interview with Ian Anderson by ABC (Australian Broadcasting) that was done in 1972. Do you have that one? Not the one that's already on RU-vid from 1972 (where Ian is wearing a hat). There's another one, and he's talking about writing A Passion Play. Thanks.

He lives poetry

Hey dude! No smoking during an interview until you're in the70's 🌎🚭

health and safty act 1974 this and my birth mmmm tastey gems

Ian Anderson would make a great ventriloquist. His ability to continue speaking in a clear, eloquent manner with that cigarette in his mouth was impressive! Also he was so sexy at this stage of his life.

Edinburgh's 'Morningside accent'... the way upper class Edinburghers used to speak, would you believe? It is mixed up with little bits of a Northern English lilt and over all disguised by an acquired 'proper English' quality. But aye, some Edinburghers didn't sound Scottish at all...

Chain-smoking those Benson & Hedges while not hedging his answers at all.

Because of what he said about NOT wanting to sing black and that whole interview which by the way is on you tube now they will never put Tull in the Hall Of Fame he even said it again on a you tube video title " A Conversation With Ian Anderson 1995" he said he does not want to sing black like Clapton and ZZ Top and all the while bands trying to sound black there is ning wrong with that at all That was during the Roots To Branches Album he said that as well as 1972 interview, he even wrote about this " The Blues was once my favorite color tilll as a white skin i hear other music i like , and that is what i am doing"

Always a great interview...although you can clearly see why his voice went, an unfortunate chain smoker.

this being "War Child," Tull's epoch creation and stage show, and knowing where this all leads, to a huge explosion of popularity on the continent of Europe following "Heavy Horses" and Ian's apparent disdain for America, it's sad that he had to bite the hand that fed him and made the large shows possible.

Interesting that he says 2 hours is the maximum to play on stage otherwise it becomes too much for the band and audience. Jethro Tull at one time used famously to play on the same bill as Led Zeppelin but when Led Zeppelin became so famous that no one wanted to open for them, Led Zeppelin used to play for the full concert time - 3 hours plus. George Harrison said the Beatles sometimes only played for 15 minutes and not usually for more than 30 minutes but then they often could not hear themselves because of the screaming of the audience.

I woke up with a Jethro Tull song in my head . and here I am..4/1/2021.

Handsome

I think you'll find Ian that the person Jethro Tull was born in 1674 and died in 1741, which makes him an 18th C agriculturist, not a 19th C agriculturist.

Just watched the bit about "the eagle-eyed viewers" and continuity. This guy is a goddamn sorceror.

england rox 1974 yeahhhhh

A part time job at Luton Ritz cinema club!! You have paid your dues.

For someone so vociferously anti-drug, it’s interesting to watch him devouring gaspers at a time when nicotine was not really regarded as one - 🤔 🚬

16th/17th century agriculturalist Ian

I love listening to him talk. So intelligent...except for the cigarettes. Always with a cigarette...

Actually Jethro Tull was an 18th century agriculturist not 19th century :)

Bungle in the jungle and skidrow great Ian

Ah, to be young again…. We think life will be like that forever. Ian’s legendary arrogance onstage is not wholly concealed during interviews. Still, amazing career.

I wouldn't mind going down on velvet green with Ian if ya know what I mean

the beard is still the same to this very day. and maybe the watch! lol

Neil Peart must have been watching this man

It looks like they're at a Steak n Ale's...

Never noticed he has a crooked pinkie!