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This week in 1975, the Jethro Tull LP “Aqualung” re-entered the US Billboard 200 Albums Chart at #184 (February 22)

It remains Jethro Tull's best-selling album…

Originally released in 1971, the album became one of the first to be recorded at Island Records' newly-opened recording studios on Basing Street in London. 

Led Zeppelin were recording their untitled fourth album at the same time. 
In an interview on the 25th anniversary edition of the album, Tull's Ian Anderson said that trying to record in that studio was very difficult, because of its "horrible, cold, echoey" feel. 

There were two recording studios at the location; Led Zeppelin worked in the smaller studio downstairs, while Tull got the larger studio, which was the main body of a converted church. 

The initial idea for the album was sparked by some photographs that Anderson's wife Jennie took of homeless people on the Thames Embankment, and indeed, one of those photos also inspired the paining on the cover by Burton Silverman.

The album was not a concept album though, despite what many thought…

As Anderson says:

“I always said at the time that this is not a concept album; this is just an album of varied songs of varied instrumentation and intensity in which three or four are the kind of keynote pieces for the album but it doesn't make it a concept album. 

In my mind when it came to writing the next album, Thick as a Brick, was done very much in the sense of: 'Whuh, if they thought Aqualung was a concept album, Oh! Okay, we'll show you a concept album.' And it was done as a kind of spoof, a send-up, of the concept album genre. ... 

But Aqualung itself, in my mind was never a concept album. Just a bunch of songs.”

On the charts, “Aqualung” peaked at #2 in Italy, #3 in Australia, Norway and Denmark, #4 in the UK, #5 in Germany and Canada, #6 in Finland, and #7 in the US.

In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked the album #337 in their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.

The album's title track was included in Guitarist magazine's list of "The 20 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time" at #20.

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