Aqualung (song)

"Aqualung"
Song by Jethro Tull
from the album Aqualung
Released19 March 1971 (1971-03-19)
RecordedDecember 1970 – February 1971
StudioIsland, London
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Length6:34
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"Aqualung" is a song by the British progressive rock band Jethro Tull, and the title track from their Aqualung (1971) album. The song was written by the band's frontman, Ian Anderson, and his then-wife Jennie Franks.

While this track was never a single, its self-titled album Aqualung was Jethro Tull's first American Top 10 album, reaching number seven in June 1971.[4] After "Locomotive Breath", it is the song most often played in concert by Jethro Tull.[5]

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  4. ^ Rock Movers & Shakers by Dafydd Rees & Luke Crampton, 1991 Billboard Books.
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