Thick As A Brick
The front-page story of Thick as a Brick's newspaper cover—dated Friday, January 7, 1972—describes the academically exceptional Gerald Bostock as the son of David and Daphne Bostock of No. 6 Pollitt Close, St. Cleve, having moved there as a family four years ago from Manchester.
According to the article, the 8-year-old Gerald "Little Milton" Bostock is something of a literary prodigy who recently received an award for his epic poem ("Thick as a Brick") from the Society of Literary Advancement and Gestation (SLAG). The article focuses on the fact that the award was revoked after Bostock read the poem aloud and used the offensive word "g__r" during a BBC television broadcast and because of doubts about his psychological stability voiced in hundreds of threats and protests from the public. The paper pays respect to Bostock's work by displaying his "poem" in its entirety and notes that Jethro Tull has decided to use the poem as the centerpiece of their new album. (The album is reviewed in the paper by the equally fictional Julian Stone-Mason: a pseudonym of Ian Anderson's).
On the inside cover of the LP (the first page of the "newspaper") there is an additional article entitled 'Little Milton in Schoolgirl Pregnancy Row', which talks about a 14-year-old girl named Julia Fealey (pictured on the front cover to Gerald's left), who blames her pregnancy on Gerald Bostock. The report continues states that her doctor claims that the girl "was obviously lying to protect the real father."
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