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''Thick as a Brick 2'', abbreviated ''TAAB 2'' (pronounced by Anderson) and subtitled ''Whatever Happened to Gerald Bostock?'', is the fifth studio album by Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson, released in 2012 as a follow-up of ''Thick as a Brick'', Jethro Tull's highly acclaimed 1972 parody concept album. It entered the Billboard chart at No. 55. ==Concept overview== According to Anderson, ''TAAB 2'' (pronounced by Anderson) focuses on Gerald Bostock, the fictional boy genius author of the original album, forty years later. "I wonder what the eight-year-old Gerald Bostock would be doing today. Would the fabled newspaper still exist?"〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson On ''Thick as a Brick 2'', the Grammys And More )〕 The follow-up album presents five divergent, hypothetical life stories for Gerald Bostock, including a greedy investment banker, a homosexual homeless man, a soldier in the Afghan War, a sanctimonious evangelist preacher, and a most ordinary man who (married and childless) runs a corner store; by the end of the album, however, all five possibilities seem to converge in a similar concluding moment of gloomy or pitiful solitude.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New CD Release by Ian Anderson Revives the Prog Genre )〕 In March 2012, to follow the style of the mock-newspaper cover (''The St Cleve Chronicle and Linwell Advertiser'') of the original ''Thick as a Brick'' album, an online newspaper was set up, simply titled ''StCleve'': .
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