Who is Gerald Bostock, listed as co-author of Thick As A Brick?
There is no real Gerald Bostock. Ian explains, “there was this kind of humorous side to [Thick as a Brick] that made it possible to do this send-up lyric which was deliberately complex and a bit crazy, and to suggest, however unlikely it might have been, that the whole thing had been written by a precocious 11 or 12 year-old or whatever the Gerald Bostock figure was supposed to have been…. which is, I suppose, me trying to cop out from being the author of it myself.
There is no real Gerald Bostock. Ian explains, “there was this kind of humorous side to [Thick as a Brick] that made it possible to do this send-up lyric which was deliberately complex and a bit crazy, and to suggest, however unlikely it might have been, that the whole thing had been written by a precocious 11 or 12 year-old or whatever the Gerald Bostock figure was supposed to have been….
