![]() Now with some 30-odd albums to their credit and sales totalling more than 60 million, Jethro Tull continue to travel near and far to fans, old and new, across the world. Jethro Tull were, by the mid-seventies, one of the most successful live performing acts on the world stage, rivalling Led Zeppelin, Elton John and even the Rolling Stones. Lend Me Your Ears will also be published as a 384 page full colour hardback edition at £39.99 ($47.99) and a softback edition priced at £26.99 ($36.00). Ian’s personal Tour itinerary from the 90’s with handwritten notes by Ian Martin & Co guitar plectrum with Ian Anderson printed signature Jethro Tull setlist from a 1976 North American TourĪ high-quality copy of handwritten lyrics by Ian Anderson Set of 4 Polaroid photographs of Jethro Tull With many images in full colour and previously unseen pictures from fans, this is the Jethro Tull story as it’s never been told before.Ĭontributors to the book include former Tull members Jeffrey Hammond, Dave Pegg, Clive Bunker, Dee Palmer and Doane Perry, celebrity fans Penn Jillette (Penn & Teller), Marc Almond (Soft Cell), Steve Harris (Iron Maiden), Joe Elliott (Def Leppard), Joe Bonamassa, Steve Lukather (Toto), Danny Carey (Tool), Bryan Josh (Mostly Autumn), Graham Bonnett (Rainbow), TV presenter Lloyd Grossman, Tim Bowness, Mikael Åkerfeldt, Seth Lakeman, Jakko Jaksyk (King Crimson), Leo O’Kelly (Tír na nÓg), Franz Di Ciocchio (PFM), Reverend George Pitcher, TV snooker commentator John Virgo and novelist Mark Billingham. Told in the first person, this new book Lend Me Your Ears is an oral history of Jethro Tull, mixing hundreds of fan anecdotes with memories from the band, their collaborators, other musicians and celebrity admirers garnered from over 50 years of recording and performing. You can watch Damian Lewis reciting this famous speech here.Lend Me Your Ears – official new book with a foreword written by Ian Anderson. ![]() He concludes, however, with a final line that offers a glimmer of hope, implying that if Rome would only recover itself, he would be all right again. Mark Antony brings his ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen’ speech, a masterly piece of oratory, to a rousing end with an appeal to personal emotion, claiming that seeing Rome so corrupted by hatred and blinded by unreason has broken his heart. The mob spirit has been fomented and everyone has made Caesar, even in death, the target of their hatred. Observe the clever pun on Brutus’ name in ‘brutish beasts’: Antony stops short of calling Brutus a beast, but it’s clear enough that he thinks the crowd has been manipulated with violent thugs and everyone has lost their ability to think rationally about Caesar. My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,Īnd I must pause till it come back to me. O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,Īnd men have lost their reason. So why do they now not mourn for him in death? (Note Antony’s skilful use of ‘cause’ twice here: they loved Caesar with good cause, but what cause is responsible for their failure to shed a tear at his passing?) Bread is just a small area of food, but is used to represent the whole. What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?Īntony reminds the crowd of Romans that they all loved Caesar once too, and they had reasons for doing so: Caesar was clearly a good leader. Metonymy What are synecdoche and metonymy Well, here are their definitions, along with some examples: Synecdoche 'a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole or the whole for a part' Examples (found from Your Dictionary, but slightly changed): The word bread can be used to represent food or money. You all did love him once, not without cause: I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,Īlthough he clearly is disproving what Brutus claimed of Caesar, Antony maintains that this isn’t his aim: he’s merely telling the truth based on what he knows of Caesar. Again, Antony appeals to the crowd: does this seem like the action of an ambitious man? Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?Īntony reminds the Romans that at the festival of Lupercalia (held in mid-February, around the same time as our modern Valentine’s Day so just a month before Caesar was assassinated), he publicly presented Julius Caesar with a crown, but Caesar refused it three times (remember, he was ‘just’ a general, a military leader: not an emperor). Hardly the actions of an ambitious man, who should be harder-hearted than this! But Brutus says Caesar was ambitious, and Brutus is honourable, so … it must be true … right? Note how Antony continues to sow the seeds of doubt in the crowd’s mind. When the poor of the city suffered, Caesar wept with pity for them.
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