Thick as a brick
A reader asks me to list my favourite music albums of all time. There are three that stand above the rest, and I will post on all of them over the next week in chronological order. Here's the first one, Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick, from the band's '78 Madison Sq Garden performance:
Here's wikipedia, the lyrics (astounding even without the music) and the LP cover newspaper.