A Passion Play

A Passion Play is a concept album by the English progressive rock band Jethro Tull, released in 1973. The album was not as well reviewed by the critics, with headlines asTull Quit and Play Without Passion. It was so bad that Jethro Tull decided to stop, but when the message reached them that the album was still at number 1 in the u.s. charts and was their tour completely sold out, they are moved on.

The album consists of only 1 number (divided into two parts because of the turn around of the LP), and tells the story of Ronnie Pilgrim after his death. This album is written as a theatrical performance (the cover of the album contained a booklet in which even all the roles were divided), of which the script there roughly looks like this:

Jethro Tull record an album originally in the renowned Château d'Hérouville (such as The Rolling Stones and Elton John also did), but Ian Anderson was very bad to talk about the quality of the studio there, and stopped the shooting. They have when back in England this album written and recorded in just 10 days because their u.s. tour began.
 * Act 1: Ronnie Pilgrim's Funeral: a winter's morning in the cemetery.
 * Act 2: The Memory Bank: a small but comfortable theatre with a cinema-screen (the next morning).
 * Act 3: The business office of g. Oddie & Son (two days later).
 * Act 4: Magus Perdē's drawing room at midnight.

The recordings were considered, from Château d'Hérouville lost but were rediscovered in the 1980s, and released in 1993 on the album Nightcap as the Château d'Isaster Tapes. ==Numbers[ Edit] == ¹ Bonus video on the Digital ' Remastered ' version.
 * 1) A Passion Play (Part I)
 * 2) A Passion Play (Part II)
 * 3) The Story Of The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles video clip ¹

There is also a special version, the golden cd, in circulation, and there is the album split into more numbers:

==Line up[ Edit] ==
 * 1) Lifebeats
 * 2) Prelude
 * 3) The Silver Cord
 * 4) Re-Assuring Tune
 * 5) Memory Bank
 * 6) Best Friends
 * 7) Critique Oblique
 * 8) Forest Dance, Part I
 * 9) The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles
 * 10) Forest Dance, Part II
 * 11) The Foot of Our Stairs
 * 12) Overseer Overture
 * 13) Flight from Lucifer
 * 10: 08 from Paddington
 * 1) Magus Perde
 * 2) Epilogue
 * Ian Anderson (flute, acoustic guitar, soprano saxophone, sopranino saxophone, vocals)
 * Martin Barre (electric guitar)
 * Barriemore Barlow (drums, timpani, glockenspiel, marimba)
 * Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond (bass, vocals)
 * John Evan (piano, organ, synthesizer, spoken word)