Released in 1971, Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" isn't just unique because of frontman Ian Anderson's prominently featured flute skills. The lyrics, which deal with themes including homelessness, aren't exactly typical rock and roll fare, either:
As Anderson explained in a 1999 interview with Guitar World, Aqualung wasn't originally meant to be a concept album, "although a lot of people thought so."
"So from that photograph and those sentiments, I began writing the words to 'Aqualung,'" he continued. "I can remember sitting in a hotel room in L.A., working out the chord structure for the verses. It's quite a tortured tangle of chords, but it was meant to really drag you here and there and then set you down into the more gentle acoustic section of the song."
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Over 50 years after it was released, "Aqualung" is also Jethro Tull's most popular song on Spotify, with over 120 million streams.
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