Too Old To Rock & Roll: Too Young To Die

1. Prelude
2. Quiz Kid
3. Crazed Institution
4. Salamander
5. Taxi Grab
6. From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser
7. Bad Eyed And Loveless
8. Big Dipper
9. Too Old To Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young To Die!
10. Pied Piper
11. The Chequered Flag (Dead Or Alive)
12. From A Dead Beat To An Old Greaser
13. Bad Eyed And Loveless
14. Big Dipper
15. Too Old To Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young To Die!
16. The Chequered Flag (Dead Or Alive)
17. Quiz Kid (Version 1) (Monte Carlo Out-take)

To follow its stellar 1975 release Minstrel In the Gallery, Jethro Tull’s ambitious plans included a group album, in addition to a stage musical about an aging rock star. Midway through the process, however, the band decided to abandon the stage musical and use the musical songs as the basis for what would become its ninth studio album, Too Old To Rock ‘n’ Roll: Too Young To Die!

TOO OLD TO ROCK ‘N’ ROLL: TOO YOUNG TO DIE! was the band’s first with John Glascock on bass and backing vocals. But it wasn’t just the band dynamic that was changing, the music was evolving too, and this album helped bridge the progressive rock of Tull’s early years with the folk-rock that would shape its musical direction throughout the late Seventies.

The disc features an unreleased, alternate version of the album that the band recorded for a British television special.