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Studio album by Jethro Tull
Released 23 April 1976 (UK)
17 May 1976 (US)
Recorded 19 November 1975 - 27 January 1976
Studio Radio Monte Carlo by the Maison Rouge Mobile Studio, except tracks 8 and 10, recorded at Morgan Studios, in Brussels
Genre
Progressive rockfolk rockhard rockblues rock
Length 42:26
Label Chrysalis
Producer Ian Anderson
Jethro Tull chronology
M.U. - The Best of Jethro Tull
(1976) Too Old to Rock `n` Roll: Too Young to Die!
(1976) Songs from the Wood
(1977)

Too Old to Rock `n` Roll: Too Young to Die! is the ninth studio album released by British band Jethro Tull, recorded in December 1975 and released in 1976. It is the first album to include bassist John Glascock who also contributes with backing vocals. Too Old to Rock `n` Roll: Too Young to Die! is the last Jethro Tull concept album, which follows the story of Ray Lomas, an aging rocker who finds fame with the changes of musical trends.[2] It was Jethro Tull`s only album of the 1970s not to achieve Gold certification.[3]

Overview
Recording
Like their previous album, Minstrel in the Gallery, the band recorded the album in the Maison Rouge Mobile Studio. They recorded `Too Old to Rock `n` Roll: Too Young to Die` and `The Chequered Flag (Dead or Alive)` along with the outtakes `Salamander`s Rag Time`, `Commercial Traveller` and `Advertising Man (Unfinished backing track)` on 19 and 20 November 1975, `Big Dipper` on 3 January 1976, `Pied Piper`[clarification needed] and `Quizz Kid` on 4 and 5 January, `Taxi Grab`, `Pied Piper`,[clarification needed] `Crazed Institution` and `Old Rocker (Quizz Kid intro)` on 8 January, `From a Dead Beat to an Old Greaser`, `Salamander` and `Pied Piper`[clarification needed] along with the outtake `A Small Cigar (acoustic version)` on 12 January, and finally `Bad-Eyed and Loveless` along with the outtake `A Small Cigar (orchestral version)` on 27 January 1976.

Background
Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson says the point of the album was to illustrate how his style of music may go out of popularity with every other fashion and fad, but he is determined that if he sticks to it, everything comes back around and the style will rise again.[2]

Ian Anderson explains that the concept came from the turmoil of the rise of the punk movement, and was not meant to be autobiographical of him as an ageing songwriter,[2] although `some members of the press took the album as our attempt to `get with` the punks`. Anderson also stated that the basis of the concept is `to point out that this business [music, fashion] is cyclic, and that if you stick around long enough, you do come into fashion again.`[4]

Concept
Originally intended to be a rock musical, the story would follow an aging and retired rock star named Ray Lomas - winning money in a `Quizz` show, trying to commit suicide and waking up years later to find out that the grease fashion has returned. Although much of the album concept is only explained in the cartoons printed in the sleeves, there are changes in the plot or in details between the cartoons and the music.[2]

A clip of the title track was released in the Slipstream video, which returned to much of the original album`s concept.


Side one
No. Title Length
1. `Quizz Kid` 5:09
2. `Crazed Institution` 4:48
3. `Salamander` 2:51
4. `Taxi Grab` 3:54
5. `From a Dead Beat to an Old Greaser` 4:09
Side two
No. Title Length
1. `Bad-Eyed and Loveless` 2:12
2. `Big Dipper` 3:35
3. `Too Old to Rock `n` Roll: Too Young to Die` 5:44
4. `Pied Piper` 4:32
5. `The Chequered Flag (Dead or Alive)` 5:32
2002 Remaster
2002 remaster bonus tracks
No. Title Length
11. `A Small Cigar` 3:39
12. `Strip Cartoon` 3:19
`A Small Cigar` originally appeared on the 1993 album Nightcap.
`Strip Cartoon` was first released as the b-side of the 1977 single `The Whistler` (from the Songs From The Wood album); it made its LP & CD debut on the 1988 box set 20 Years of Jethro Tull.

Personnel
Jethro Tull
Ian Anderson – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, flute, harmonica, additional electric guitar and percussion
Martin Barre – electric guitar
John Evan – piano, keyboards
John Glascock – backing vocals, bass guitar
Barriemore Barlow – drums, percussion
Additional musicians
Dee Palmer – saxophone (on track 5), Vako Orchestron, piano (on track 11)
Maddy Prior – backing vocals (on track 8)
Angela Allen – backing vocals (on tracks 2 & 7)
Orchestrations by Dee Palmer. Orchestra conducted by Dee Palmer.

Additional personnel
Robin Black – sound engineer
Michael Farrell – cover design, illustrations
David Gibbons – design, illustrations