What is the story of Tarkus?

What is the story of Tarkus?

This song describes the story of a war machine called Tarkus (a mixture between an armadillo and a tank). This creature emerges from an egg that is beside a volcanic crater that is making an eruption. Manticore forces Tarkus to go back, and Manticore defeats Tarkus, whose body falls down to a river.

What does the word Tarkus mean?

The name “Tarkus” refers to the armadillo-tank from the William Neal paintings on the album cover. The artist has explained that the name is an amalgamation between ‘Tartarus’ and ‘carcass’ (hence the name being written in bones on the album cover).

Is Tarkus a concept album?

It is a conceptual piece in which its narrative remain ambiguous and open to interpretation, but the artwork depicts the Tarkus character in the form of an armadillo-like tank who is born and loses a fight with a manticore, which concludes with the appearance of an aquatic version of Tarkus named Aquatarkus.

Which album was a parody of a concept album?

Thick as a Brick
Thick as a Brick is the fifth studio album by the British rock band Jethro Tull, released in March 1972. The album contains a continuous piece of music, split over two sides of an LP record, and is a parody of the concept album genre.

Which group arranged and recorded a version of the classical suite Pictures at an Exhibition?

Pictures at an Exhibition (Emerson, Lake & Palmer album)

Who wrote Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick?

Ian Anderson
Thick as a Brick, Part 1/Lyricists

The original packaging, designed like a newspaper, claims the album to be a musical adaptation of an epic poem by fictional eight-year-old genius Gerald Bostock, though the lyrics were actually written by the band’s frontman, Ian Anderson.

What country is the band Rush from?

Ontario, Canada
Rush (band)

Who created the disco beat?

Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk (Invented the Disco Beat)