Who is Jennie Anderson, the person credited on the Aqualung album as the author of the title track?
Ian Anderson, discussing the song “Aqualung,” explains: “It’s credited on the album actually to my first wife, who in fact was responsible for what became some of the lyrics in the first couple of verses of it, because she’d been out taking some photographs. She was studying photography at the time at some college or something, and she was doing some assignment where she had to go and take photos of people in London, and she’d come back with a whole series of photos on this sort of general subject on individuals. I suppose in total probably about half of the lyrics were words or word associations that she had come up with.”[3]The photos were of homeless men, and the images inspired the character of Aqualung.
Ian Anderson, discussing the song “Aqualung,” explains: “It’s credited on the album actually to my first wife, who in fact was responsible for what became some of the lyrics in the first couple of verses of it, because she’d been out taking some photographs. She was studying photography at the time at some college or something, and she was doing some assignment where she had to go and take photos of people in London, and she’d come back with a whole series of photos on this sort of general subject on individuals. I suppose in total probably about half of the lyrics were words or word associations that she had come up with.” [3] The photos were of homeless men, and the images inspired the character of Aqualung.
