Ian Anderson/Jethro Tull

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Ian Anderson/Jethro Tull
An autograph letter, signed, to Joyce, a friend of Anderson's girlfriend at that time, Yvonne Nicholson [n.d. but 22nd October, 1968], written on two pages taken from a cashbook, Anderson asking how she is and wondering why he hadn't received a reply to a previous letter....I suppose you know that I am famous now...Our L.P. [This Was] came out just over a week ago and should make the L.P. charts on Wednesday. Which means a lot....Have to get a new one together in a month. A considerable feat of musical cunning. Probably be a complete failure. Keeps me busy and deep in thought and coffee. Jeff and John are with me now (not playing - just living and at school again) which is all right [sic] but we don't see much of each other as I work a lot. I have a lot of problems but they are important. I mean it's important to have problems otherwise things wouldn't mean much would they ?.....Please write back - nobody else does much these days - write I mean....love, Ian (Anderson), 2pp, framed with corresponding envelope and a black and white snap-shot of Anderson in 1966 -- 5x3in. (12.7x9cm.), the reverse of the first page visible through an opening at the back of the frame, overall measurements -- 16x13in. (40.6x34.3cm.)

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Jethro Tull, formed in late 1967, comprised Ian Anderson, John Evans, Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, Mick Abrahams and Clive Bunker. The first album Anderson refers to This Was, released by Island Records in October, 1968, reached no.10 in the U.K. album charts in November, 1968, and later reached no.75 in the U.S. The second album Stand Up, released in July, 1969, was their only album to reach no.1.

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