Historical Figure
Ian Anderson
b. 1947
Scottish musician (born 1947)
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Key Dates
Birth
1947 August 10, 1947 →Biography
Ian Scott Anderson is a British musician best known for being the chief vocalist, flautist, and acoustic guitarist of the British rock band Jethro Tull. He is a multi-instrumentalist who also plays harmonica, keyboard, bass guitar, bouzouki, balalaika, saxophone, and a variety of whistles. His solo work began with Walk into Light in 1983; since then he has released another five albums, including the sequel to the 1972 Jethro Tull album Thick as a Brick, titled TaaB 2: Whatever Happened to Gerald Bostock? (2012).
Timeline
African-American singer Marian Anderson gives a concert at the Lincoln Memorial after being denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
April 9 →Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.
April 9 →Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
January 7 →Die erste Episode der Fernsehserie Akte X – Die unheimlichen Fälle des FBI mit David Duchovny und Gillian Anderson in den Hauptrollen wird in den USA ausgestrahlt.
September 10 →More from the Postwar
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