SKATING AWAY ON THE THIN ICE OF A NEW DAY
JETHRO TULL
SONGWRITER: IAN ANDERSON
COUNTRY: U. K.
ALBUM: WAR CHILD
LABEL: CHRYSALIS RECORDS
GENRE: PROGRESSIVE ROCK
YEAR: 1974
Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool,
Lancashire in 1967. Initially playing blues rock and jazz fusion,
the band later developed their sound to incorporate elements of hard rock and folk to forge a progressive
rock signature. The band is led by
vocalist/flautist/guitarist Ian
Anderson, and has featured a revolving door of
lineups through the years including significant members such as longtime
guitarist Martin Barre,
keyboardists John Evans,
Dee Palmer and Peter-John
Vettese, drummers Clive Bunker,
Barrie "Barriemore" Barlow and Doane Perry,
and bassists Glenn Cornick,
Jeffrey Hammond,
John Glascock,
and Dave Pegg.
After achieving moderate recognition
performing in the London club scene, the band released their debut álbum This Was in 1968. After a lineup change which saw original guitarist Mick Abrahams replaced by Martin Barre, the band released the folk-tinged blues
album Stand Up (1969). Stand Up saw the
band achieve their first commercial success, with the album reaching No. 1 in
the UK, followed by regular tours of the UK and the US. Their musical style
shifted in the direction of progressive rock with the albums Aqualung (1971), Thick as a Brick (1972) and A
Passion Play (1973), and shifted again to folk rock with Songs
from the Wood (1977), Heavy Horses (1978) and Stormwatch (1979). In the early 1980s the band underwent a major lineup change
and shifted towards electronic
rock, with the albums A (1980), The Broadsword and the Beast (1982)
and Under Wraps (1984). The band won their
sole Grammy Award for the 1987 album Crest
of a Knave, which saw the band return to a
hard rock style. Jethro Tull have sold an estimated 60 million albums
worldwide, with 11 gold and five platinum albums among them. They have been
described by Rolling Stone as "one of the most commercially successful and eccentric
progressive rock bands."
The
last works as a group to contain new material were released in 2003, though the
band continued to tour until 2011. Both Anderson and Barre
have continued to record and tour as solo artists, with Anderson saying in 2014
that Jethro Tull "came more or less to an end." However in 2017
Anderson announced plans for a tour to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary
of This Was. The
current group—now billed as "Ian Anderson and the Jethro Tull
band"—includes musicians who have been members of Anderson's solo band
since 2012.
War Child is the seventh studio album by Jethro
Tull, released in October 1974.
It was released almost a year and a half after the release of A Passion Play.
The
turmoil over criticism of the previous album surrounded the production of War Child, which obliged the band
to do press conferences and explain their plans for the future.
Meanwhile back in the year One — when you belonged to no-one —
You didn't stand a chance son, if your pants were undone
'Cause you were bred for humanity and sold to society
One day you'll wake up in the Present Day —
A million generations removed from expectations
Of being who you really want to be
Skating Away
Skating away
Skating away on the thin ice of the New Day
So as you push off from the shore
Won't you turn your head once more and make your peace with everyone?
For those who choose to stay
Will live just one more day
To do the things they should have done
And as you cross the wilderness, spinning in your emptiness
You feel you have to pray
Looking for a sign
That the Universal Mind (!) has written you into the Passion Play
Skating away on the thin ice of the New Day
And as you cross the circle line, the ice-wall creaks behind
You're a rabbit on the run
And the silver splinters fly in the corner of your eye
Shining in the setting sun
Well, do you ever get the feeling that the story's
Too damn real and in the present tense?
Or that everybody's on the stage, and it seems like
You're the only person sitting in the audience?
Skating away on the thin ice of the New Day.
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