290:. The song is one of the most recent songs to appear on both Ian Anderson's and the reunited Jethro Tull's setlists (Anderson joked at a concert, "Enough of that old stuff. We're going to play one of our more recent songs, from 1978"). These performances feature accompanying video clips of singer Unnur Birna Björnsdóttir that were filmed for the 2015 show "Jethro Tull: The Rock Opera". The song has also been performed live by Barre in solo shows.
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192:" in a way. Once powerful and majestic creatures find themselves on the scrap heap, forgotten by society and replaced by machines. I'm not particularly obsessed by the animals, and it's not intended as a heartfelt campaign to bring them back into service, but I do have soft spot for horses.
248:"Heavy Horses" has since seen mixed-to-positive reception from critics. It was ranked the seventh best Jethro Tull song by Rock - Das Gesamtwerk der größten Rock-Acts im Check. David Bowling of the
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705:Jethro Tull
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146:Producer(s)
32:Jethro Tull
1579:1978 songs
1568:Categories
1356:Love Story
1254:Slipstream
1221:Boxed sets
958:Stormwatch
794:Dee Palmer
764:Tony Iommi
742:Jack Clark
314:PopMatters
294:References
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281:In Concert
217:Darryl Way
213:Curved Air
180:Background
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774:John Evan
662:3 October
633:3 October
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517:3 October
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902:Aqualung
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881:This Was
458:AllMusic
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256:AllMusic
190:Aqualung
58:Recorded
48:Released
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