A Passion Play

A Passion Play is the sixth studio album by Jethro Tull, released in July 1973 in both UK and US. Like its predecessor, Thick as a Brick (1972), it is a concept album comprising individual songs arranged into a single continuous piece of music (which is split into two parts on the original vinyl LP release) and a television film starring The Royal Ballet among other people, including members of the band themselves, namely John Evan (the pierrot introducing "The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectales"), Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond (narrator of story) and Ian Anderson (who gives a clipboard to Hammond-Hammond. The theme of the concept is apparently the spiritual journey of one man (Ronnie Pilgrim) in the afterlife. In the original tour to support the album, three videos were used: one for the

A Passion Play

A Passion Play is the sixth studio album by Jethro Tull, released in July 1973 in both UK and US. Like its predecessor, Thick as a Brick (1972), it is a concept album comprising individual songs arranged into a single continuous piece of music (which is split into two parts on the original vinyl LP release) and a television film starring The Royal Ballet among other people, including members of the band themselves, namely John Evan (the pierrot introducing "The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectales"), Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond (narrator of story) and Ian Anderson (who gives a clipboard to Hammond-Hammond. The theme of the concept is apparently the spiritual journey of one man (Ronnie Pilgrim) in the afterlife. In the original tour to support the album, three videos were used: one for the