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Thick as a Brick is a Progressive rock act. Their sound grew out of Yes. Those roots explain a lot about how Thick as a Brick arrange songs and choose their tones. Their influence carried into Rush and Iron Maiden, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 3 connections around Thick as a Brick, reaching back through Yes and forward to Rush. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Thick as a Brick is the fifth studio album by the British rock band Jethro Tull, released on 3 March 1972 on Chrysalis Records. The album consists of a single continuous piece of music, split across the two sides of the original LP record, and was conceived as a parody of concept albums and the progressive rock genre. Its original packaging took the form of a 12-page newspaper, which presented the album as a musical adaptation of an epic poem by a fictional eight-year-old prodigy named Gerald Bostock, although the lyrics were actually written by the band's frontman Ian Anderson.
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Thick as a Brick grew out of Yes, went on to shape Rush and Iron Maiden. 3 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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