Amazon.com Following quickly on the heels of their career-defining Aqualung and Thick as a Brick, Ian Anderson's Jethro Tull demonstrated that their musical and thematic ambitions were as muscular as ever on 1973's Passion Play. But if Thick was a bit tongue in cheek about its conceptual conceits, Passion was a dizzying example of the prog-rock era's overweening musical aspirations at their zenith. Anderson now sums up it its obtuse, theater-as-metaphor libretto as "the theme of post-death meanderings in another world," but the sheer propulsive tension of Tull's sprawling musical interplay insures its folk-rooted baroque and roll a tight orbit around this mortal coil for nearly the album's entirety. This digitally remastered, enhanced CD edition features the complete video for the album's Lewis Carroll-esque interlude "The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles," a theatrical program and typically self-effacing new introduction by Ian Anderson. --Jerry McCulley Product Description Their #1 smash LP from '73, an amazingly ambitious album, dense with fantasy imagery and religious references. This reissue is an enhanced CD featuring video of The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles taken from the 25 Years of Jethro Tull VHS release!, ISBN13: B00008G9JM ISBN10: B00008G9JM Material Type: audioCDAmazon.com Following quickly on the heels of their career-defining Aqualung and Thick as a Brick, Ian Anderson's Jethro Tull demonstrated that their musical and thematic ambitions were as muscular as ever on 1973's Passion Play. But if Thick was a bit tongue in cheek about its conceptual conceits, Passion was a dizzying example of the prog-rock era's overweening musical aspirations at their zenith. Anderson now sums up it its obtuse, theater-as-metaphor libretto as "the theme of post-death meanderings in another world," but the sheer propulsive tension of Tull's sprawling musical interplay insures its folk-rooted baroque and roll a tight orbit around this mortal coil for nearly the album's entirety. This digitally remastered, enhanced CD edition features the complete video for the album's Lewis Carroll-esque interlude "The Hare Who Lost His Spectacles," a theatrical program and typically self-effacing new introduction by Ian Anderson. --Jerry McCulley Product Description Their #1 smash LP from '73, an amazingly ambitious album, dense with fantasy imagery and religious references. This reissue is an enhanced CD featuring video of The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles taken from the 25 Years of Jethro Tull VHS release!, ISBN13: B00008G9JM ISBN10: B00008G9JM Material Type: audioCD , ISBN13: B00008G9JM ISBN10: B00008G9JM Material Type: audioCD