"I was asked the question, 'Whatever happened to Gerald Bostock?'" he says. "'What would he be doing today, what would have happened to the St. Cleve Chronicle, the newspaper that formed the packaging of the original album?' Those two questions set my mind moving over the next few weeks in terms in giving me the bones of a concept album for 2012."

In addition to the release of "TAAB2" last month, Anderson and his band are currently on the road performing both the sequel and the original "Thick as a Brick" album in their entirety. The most noticeable aspect of "TAAB2" is that it was recorded and released as an Ian Anderson solo album rather than a Jethro Tull one - it doesn't feature Tull's longtime guitarist Martin Barre. Anderson explains that it was mutually agreed that he and Barre would work on separate projects.

"I'm like a football team manager," he says. "I had to pick the right people. I really felt that the guitar player that I've been working with in the last ten years at the Ian Anderson shows - which outnumbers the Jethro Tull shows in the last few years - not just he, but the other musicians, too, were the people I felt I wanted to work on this album."

It is with great sadness that I write the obituary for a true community giant and visionary, a man of endless new enthusiasms and ardent commitment to the creation of a harmonious and united Australian Islamic Community – Haj Adib Marabani.

I will truly miss the man who became my second father. I will miss the gentle re assuring voice, saying “Allah Yarr dah Alaak” ( Allah be pleased with you) and encouraging me in what ever new endeavor that I was pursing and saying “reach for the stars my son, reach for the stars, you might just clear the trees!”

Haj Adib served the community for more than half a century and from the day he arrived in Australia till the day he passed, he was always at the service of the community, solving its problems, settling its issues and preparing the next generation of Australian Muslims.

Haj Adib was of the old kind of committed, trusted and trustworthy communitarian, where his word was truly his bond, where due to the unstinting high regard and respect he was held in, meant that no one said no to Haj Adib; to his good Samaritan ideas and ‘latest project ‘for the community.