Jethro Tull – Locomotive Breath
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I first saw them in the summer of 1969 at freshman orientation at Stony Brook on Long Island and I was immediately hooked. The entire Aqualung album still moves me.
That brings back some memories. The good old early ‘70’s.
Greg Lake & Ian Anderson, “I Believe In Father Christmas”
St. Bride’s Church, London
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/the-evening-pause/greg-lake-i-believe-in-father-christmas/
“Who would be a rich man, a beggar man, a thief “
Interesting bit of trivia- Ian Anderson’s daughter is married to Andrew Lincoln, who starred as Rick Grimes in the American TV show “The Walking Dead”.
Can ut really be fifty years ago……
Yes it can be ancient history! Saw them fifty years ago, doing Aqualung on tour.
Heard Ian interviewed many years ago on radio. He said the inspiration for “Locomotive Breath” was the ‘big bang’ theory and the endless expansion of the universe. There’s your Space tie-in, and the makings of a great trivia question!