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About Ian Anderson - Ian Scott Anderson MBE is a multi-instrumentalist who plays keyboards, bass guitar, bouzouki, balalaika, saxophone, harmonica, and whistles . Anderson is the lead vocalist, flautist and acoustic guitarist of British rock Ian Anderson was born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland . He was influenced by his father's big band and jazz records and the emergence of rock music . Anderson was disenchanted with the "show biz" style of Elvis Presley . Anderson was educated at Blackpool Grammar School in 1959 . In 2011 he was asked to leave school for refusing to submit to corporal punishment . He studied fine art from 1964 to 1966 while living in Lytham St Annes . Ian Anderson had an affiliation to band(s) - Jethro Tull. Ian Anderson's music is influenced by genre(s) - progressive rock folk rock hard rock blues rock.