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5 unusual facts about Marillion


Big Lie

Marillion's 1994 release Brave opens with a song titled "Living with The Big Lie", about propaganda in the Western world.

Don Allum

British rock band Marillion released an eighteen-minute song called "Ocean Cloud" on its 2004 album Marbles based on Allum's 1987 crossing.

Recital of the Script

Recital of the Script is a live album by Marillion, recorded at a concert at the Hammersmith Odeon (as it was called then), London on 18 April 1983.

The Kimberly Trip

The two began playing in bands together in junior high school, such as Thin Ice, a progressive rock band influenced by groups such as Marillion and Rush.

The Silmarillion

The English progressive rock band Marillion were formed in 1979 as Silmarillion but shortened their name in 1981 to avoid any copyright conflict.


Aziz Ibrahim

He is also a member of the h Band with Marillion's Steve Hogarth and is involved in the writing of the second H Band album.

Bloodbound

Released on 16 December 2005 (in Japan; European release date 24 February 2006), Nosferatu features artwork by Mark Wilkinson (Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Marillion) and received an early rave review from the Swedish rock magazine Power Play.

Dalkeith

Recent notable people from Dalkeith include former Marillion lead singer Fish (born Derek Dick) and Manchester United footballer Darren Fletcher.

Front Row

Front Row Club Issue 1, a 1998 live album by British rock group Marillion

Galashiels

The 1985 Marillion hit single Kayleigh was partially inspired by events that took place in Galashiels as the band's lead singer Fish spent some time in the town in his earlier years.

Happiness Is the Road

On 19 September (what year???), Marillion made the album available for free on peer-to-peer file sharing networks as 128 kbit/s WMA files.

Kayleigh Pearson

Kayleigh was named after the Marillion song "Kayleigh" when it was top of the charts in 1985, which her mother heard on the radio while in hospital after giving birth to Pearson.

Keyboard bass

The guitar player or bass player of a bands such as Genesis' Mike Rutherford, Yes' Chris Squire, John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin during acoustic sets, Rush (bassist Geddy Lee), The Police (bassist Sting), Marillion (Pete Trewavas) or Atomic Rooster (organist Vincent Crane) use the bass pedals to play bass lines.

Mick Pointer

Mick Pointer (born 22 July 1956), originally from Brill in Buckinghamshire, England, was the original drummer and founding member of the neo-progressive rock band Marillion.

Simon Apple

The band was formed in late 1987 in the Reading, Pennsylvania area (outside of Philadelphia) as a cover band playing music of Genesis, Rush, Electric Light Orchestra, Supertramp, Steely Dan, Pink Floyd, Kansas, Billy Joel, Elton John, Marillion, Level 42, Earth Wind & Fire, Bruce Hornsby, Toto, etc.

Terri Seymour

Born Terri Louise Seymour in Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire in 1974, she first was a commercial model appearing in catalogues and advertisements, as well as a video appearance on UK Rock Band Marillion's "No One Can", and as a dancer in Karl Keaton's one hit wonder "Love's Burn" from 1991, then became co-host of Wheel of Fortune on the British television network ITV in 2001.

The Lodge Recording Studio

It was used by such famous artists as Kim Wilde, The Ruts, Katrina and the Waves, New Model Army, Mari Wilson, Marillion and Paradise Lost using it on a regular basis until 1988 when the owners closed it in order to concentrate on separate musical careers.

The Wishing Tree

When Marillion were recording Brave at Miles Copeland's Chateau Marouatte in Dordogne in 1993, Copeland offered Rothery "a substantial sum" for recording an instrumental solo album on his label No Speak.

All music was written by Rothery and Stobart ("additional vocal melodies"), while the lyrics were written by regular Marillion collaborator John Helmer.

At first All About Eve's singer Julianne Regan was approached through Marillion's manager John Arnison, but was not interested in working with Rothery.


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