Aqualung

“Aqualung my friend don’t start away uneasy you poor old sod, you see, it’s only me.”   Jethro Tull performing Aqualung on 1978 at Madison Square Garden: …Thick As A Brick by Jethro Tull, live in Golders Green Hippodrome, London, England in February 10, 1977:  

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Scotland’s three generations of Highland Clearances (1784-1854)

The Highland Clearances were a callous and criminal chapter in Scottish history.  They were the immoral means of selfish Scottish chiefs and lairds who as early capitalists preferred the Great Cheviot Sheep (“finely shaped, with countenance mild and pleasant”) to their own clansmen who had once been their warrior rent-roll.

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