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Jethro Tull

A British rock band formed in Blackpool in 1967. The band's leader, Ian Anderson, became the first rock musician to regularly use the flute. The band started by performing blues-rock, but soon influences of folk, jazz, and classical music appeared in their music. The group was named after Jethro Tull, an agricultural scientist who lived in England at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and became famous for inventing an improved model of a seed drill. A notable fact is that the construction of this device used the working principle of a musical instrument, an organ. Despite the fact that Jethro Tull were always far from the mainstream, used extremely complex arrangements, and wrote unusual, intricate lyrics, in the 1970s they also enjoyed significant commercial success: 5 of the band's albums achieved platinum status, 11 achieved gold, and in total, over 60 million copies of the band's albums have been sold worldwide.