My Favorite Albums – Living in the Past – Jethro Tull

This was the first Jethro Tull album that I owned.

Jethro Tull’s Living in the Past is a particularly unusual album because it was not a conventional studio album at all, but a double-LP compilation assembled in 1972 to bring together the band’s singles, non-album tracks, alternate mixes, outtakes, a few previously released album songs, and two live performances. It was released in the United Kingdom on June 23, 1972,

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David Crosby Dies

A founding member of two popular and enormously influential ’60s rock groups.

David Van Cortlandt Crosby was born on Aug. 14, 1941, in Los Angeles into families with deep roots in American history dating back to Dutch rule in New York in the 17th century. His mother, who was born Aliph Van Cortlandt Whitehead, descended from the prominent Van Cortlandt family[1]. His father, Floyd Crosby, an Academy Award-winning cinematographer whose credits included the classic western “High Noon,” was a member of the Van Rensselaer clan[2].

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Doyle’s Space: Music Hall of Fame

Welcome back my friends…

My second inductee of 2022, and ninth so far, is the progressive rock supergroup, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP). I wrote about the member’s beginnings, back in the Circle Sky Record store days for our magazine Melody Hill and posted the story, From The Beginning, for you to read.

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