Ian Scott Anderson

Scottish musician, the flamboyant lead singer and moving spirit with the group Jethro Tull, playing rock'n'roll flute. The son of a Scottish night watchman, he was a school dropout at 15. He studied art and worked with the John Evan group in Blackpool before forming Tull in 1967, named after the 18th century British agriculturist and inventor. He traded his guitar for a flute and wore outlandish stage costumes, pink tights, jockstrap, top hat and vest, called "the Pan of Rock." His career took off, bringing in a dozen gold and six platinum records, an estimated million dollars a year which financed a 74-acre estate in Buckinghamshire outside of London.