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1973

15 Feb 73   Rolling Stone   Jethro Tull 3: do we have to live in the past?

24 Mar 73   NME   Jethro's Disneyland IA

28 Apr 73   Sounds   Jethro cancel Wembley gigs

May 1973   Creem   Jethro Tull in Vietnam
5 May 73   The Evansville Press   Rock concert packs stadium

16 Jun 73   NME   Jethro Tull
23 Jun 73   Melody Maker   Tull will stage their 'Passion Play' TE
23 Jun 73   Sounds   Tull spend TE
30 Jun 73   Melody Maker   Crime of passion
30 Jun 73   NME   Jethro Tull: where's the passion now?
30 Jun 73   Sounds   Road report
30 Jun 73   Disc & Music Echo   Jethro Tull: Wembley Arena

5 Jul 73   Kansas City Star   Jethro Tull in concert
7 Jul 73   Melody Maker   Jethro sell out in L.A. — three times!
13 Jul 73   A Passion Play (CHR 1040)   The Linwell Theatre booklet
21 Jul 73   Melody Maker   Jethro Tull: enough is enough
21 Jul 73   NME   Jethro: nothing to get passionate about
24 Jul 73   Los Angeles Times   Tull's ambitions exceed creations

4 Aug 73   Melody Maker   Tull: can 72,000 fans be wrong?
18 Aug 73   Record Mirror   Ian don't like the music press IA
25 Aug 73   NME   Now Jethro quit TE
25 Aug 73   Melody Maker   Jethro retire hurt! TE
25 Aug 73   Sounds   Tull retire! TE
25 Aug 73   Los Angeles Times   Jethro Tull taking hiatus to do film TE
30 Aug 73   Rolling Stone   A Passion Play
30 Aug 73   Pop   [no title] IA

Sept 1973   Circus   [no title] IA
1 Sep 73   Melody Maker   Why Tull called it a day TE
1 Sep 73   Sounds   You've got the whole darn thing all wrong
22 Sep 73   NME   Jethro Tull: the house that Jethro built

Oct 1973   National Lampoon   "And it came to pass ..."
Oct 1973   Creem   "Dear Creem readers ..."

3 Nov 73   Melody Maker   [no title]
8 Nov 73   Rolling Stone   Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson plans a move; he'll play God IA



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1, 2, 3: published in Fans magazine (Germany), Feb 1974: possibly from the European tour, March 1973. Thanks to Harry Auras.
4: poster published in Italian magazine Ciao 2001, 13 May 1973
5: St Louis, 23 May 1973 by Bill Parsons
6-16: definitely (5-9) or probably (10-15) from the Empire Pool, Wembley, 22 June 1973
17: concert ad from Melody Maker, 23 June 1973
18: same advert in colour, from the tour programme, courtesy of The Ministry of Information
19: press ad for the new album, Melody Maker 21 July 1973
20 and 21: LA Forum, July 1973. Photo enhancements: Steve Gugerty
22-24: US tour, July/August/September 1973

7, 9, 10, 16 and concert ticket courtesy of Mike Wain