Thick as a Brick 2
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| Studio album by Ian Anderson | ||||
| Released | 4 April 2012 | |||
| Recorded | March 2011, November 2011 | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Length | 53:45 | |||
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Chrysalis/EMI Records 50999 6 38726 2 0 F2-38726 |
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| Producer | Ian Anderson | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| PopMatters | 5/10 |
| Sputnik Music | 4.0/5 |
Thick as a Brick 2, abbreviated TAAB 2 (pronounced /tæb tuː/ by Anderson) and subtitled Whatever Happened to ?, is the fifth studio album by Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson, released in 2012 as a follow-up of Thick as a Brick, Jethro Tull's highly acclaimed 1972 parody concept album. It entered the Billboard chart at No. 55.
According to Anderson, TAAB 2 (pronounced /tæb tuː/ by Anderson) focuses on , the fictional boy genius author of the original album, forty years later. "I wonder what the eight-year-old Gerald Bostock would be doing today. Would the fabled newspaper still exist?" The follow-up album presents five divergent, hypothetical life stories for Gerald Bostock, including a greedy investment banker, a homosexual homeless man, a soldier in the Afghan War, a sanctimonious evangelist preacher, and a most ordinary man who (married and childless) runs a corner store; by the end of the album, however, all five possibilities seem to converge in a similar concluding moment of gloomy or pitiful solitude. In March 2012, to follow the style of the mock-newspaper cover (The St Cleve Chronicle and Linwell Advertiser) of the original Thick as a Brick album, an online newspaper was set up, simply titled StCleve.
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