10 - War Child II [1974]

Artist: Jethro Tull
Album: Warchild II The Missing Album] / 1974 (2020)

Originally meant to accompany a film project (the album was planned as a double-album set), it was reinstated as a ten-song, single-length rock album after failed attempts to find a major movie studio to finance the film.[5] The "War Child" movie was written as a metaphysical black comedy concerning a teenage girl in the afterlife, meeting characters based on God, St. Peter and Lucifer portrayed as shrewd businessmen. Notable British actor Leonard Rossiter was to have been featured, Margot Fonteyn was to have choreographed, while Monty Python veteran John Cleese was pencilled in as a "humour consultant".

In Warchild II we can see what the other album would be like, and we can see that these songs were on the same level as the others. It would be a delicious double album. But now we can hear it as a "new classic Tull lost studio album"

Ian Anderson – vocals, flute, acoustic guitar, saxophone
Martin Barre – electric guitar, Spanish guitar
John Evan – piano, organ, synthesizers, accordion
Jeffrey Hammond – bass guitar, string bass, vocals
Barriemore Barlow – drums, percussion
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David Palmer – orchestral arrangements

Recorded: December, 1973/74, London
[Steven Wilson stereo remix]

Mp3 320 kbps