Why 'Shy' Ian Anderson Avoids Cowriting Songs
Why ‘Shy’ Ian Anderson Avoids Cowriting Songs His book of Tull lyrics, Silent Singing, will be published in June. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, he called it a work of “putting on the record the correct, accurately transcribed, entire catalog of songs.” “Only twice in my life have I collaborated in writing a song,” Anderson explained. “Once was with my first wife Jennie, who provided the photographic visuals and lyric text inspiration for the development of the rest of the [1971] song ‘Aqualung.’ The other occasion was with [former Tull guitarist] Martin Barre o...
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