Jethro Tull Randomly Chosen Name

At the beginning of their career in the late 1960s, the future members of British rock band Jethro Tull constantly changed their band name for almost every gig because club bookers rarely invited them back. Jethro Tull was simply the name they happened to be using when a record label finally noticed them and offered a deal. Singer Ian Anderson later said he regretted being stuck with the name, which originally came from an 18th-century English agriculturalist, but the band had already broken through by then.

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