MINSTREL IN THE GALLERY
TOO OLD TO ROCK'N'ROLL... TOO YOUNG TO DIE!
ALL EMI
This was Ian Anderson's three-album atonement for his intemperate 1973 'retirement' after press criticism. The sprightly War Child (1974) and the hauntedly excellent Minstrel In The Gallery (1975) bristle with ideas and a genuinely innovative flair for rethinking rock harmony, rhythm and texture (notwithstanding the former's horrid string arrangements).
Too Old To Rock 'N' Roll... (1976), however, was a riposte too far; arid, self-regarding and mundane, it's an unlikely prelude to the band's 1977 masterpiece, Songs From The Wood.
MINSTREL IN THE GALLERY
TOO OLD TO ROCK’N’ROLL… TOO YOUNG TO DIE!
ALL EMI
This was Ian Anderson’s three-album atonement for his intemperate 1973 ‘retirement’ after press criticism. The sprightly War Child (1974) and the hauntedly excellent Minstrel In The Gallery (1975) bristle with ideas and a genuinely innovative flair for rethinking rock harmony, rhythm and texture (notwithstanding the former’s horrid string arrangements).
Too Old To Rock ‘N’ Roll… (1976), however, was a riposte too far; arid, self-regarding and mundane, it’s an unlikely prelude to the band’s 1977 masterpiece, Songs From The Wood.
