Description
Offered for sale is a rare promo-only version of A Passion Play by Jethro Tull, formatted and edited for radio station use.
About this copy: This copy of A Passion Play is a special edition created for U.S. radio when the album was first released in 1973. The cover is VG+, with slight ring wear.
The white label promotional disc is M- and looks unplayed. A nice copy of a terrific LP and a particularly difficult one to find in nice condition.
Background: Like Thick as a Brick before it, A Passion Play was a continuous work, and not a selection of songs. That didn’t matter for home listeners, but for radio play, it helped to have something resembling “songs” that could be played on the radio in 3-5 minute segments.
For this reason, a special promo-only version of the album was created, with each side of the album divided into 5 segments, any of which could be played on the radio as a song.
The segments are untitled; they’re simply labeled, “A Passion Play, (Edit #1)” and so on.
The LP was issued with a simple black and white cover with the title Edited Version for D.J. Use Only, and the listing of the titles and running times.
A Passion Play was Jethro Tull’s sixth studio album, and it reached #1 on the U.S. album charts.
Allmusic.com gave A Passion Play a 3 star review:
Jethro Tull’s second album-length composition, A Passion Play is very different from — and not quite as successful as — Thick as a Brick. … the music puts it over successfully, a dazzling mix of old English folk and classical material, reshaped in electric rock terms. The band is at its peak form, sustaining the tension and anticipation of this album-length piece across 45 minutes, although the music runs out of inspiration about five minutes before it actually ends.
| Country of origin: | U.S. |
| Size: | 12″ |
| Record Label: | Chrysalis |
| Catalog Number: |
CHR 1040 |
| Year of Release: | 1973 |
| Format: | Stereo |
| Share: |       |
