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Ian Anderson
Artist Icon Thick as a Brick 2 (2012)
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Thick as a Brick 2, abbreviated TAAB 2 and subtitled Whatever Happened to Gerald Bostock?, is an album by Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson, released in 2012 as a follow-up of Thick as a Brick, Jethro Tull's highly acclaimed 1972 concept album. It entered the Billboard chart at #55.

According to Anderson, TAAB 2 (pronounced /tæb tuː/ by Anderson) focuses on Gerald Bostock, the fictional boy genius author of the original album, forty years later. "I wonder what the eight-year-old Gerald Bostock would be doing today. Would the fabled newspaper still exist?" The follow-up album presents five divergent, hypothetical life stories for Gerald Bostock, including a greedy investment banker, a homosexual homeless man, a soldier in the Afghan War, a sanctimonious evangelist preacher, and a most ordinary man who (married and childless) runs a corner store; by the end of the album, however, all five possibilities seem to converge in a similar concluding moment of gloomy or pitiful solitude. In March 2012, to follow the style of the mock-newspaper cover (The St Cleve Chronicle and Linwell Advertiser) of the original Thick as a Brick album, an online newspaper was set up, simply titled StCleve: www.stcleve.com.
Musicians
Ian Anderson – vocals, flutes, acoustic guitars
Florian Opahle – electric guitar
John O'Hara (musician) – accordion, Hammond organ, piano, keyboards
Pete Judge – trumpet, flugelhorn, tenor horn, E-flat tuba
Ryan O'Donnell (musician) – additional vocals
David Goodier – bass guitar, glockenspiel
Scott Hammond – drums, percussion
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