Marillion are a rock band formed in Aylesbury, England . Their 30-year car… Read Full Bio ↴Marillion are a rock band formed in Aylesbury, England . Their 30-year career is marked by two distinctive phases; the early years fronted by Fish which saw their greatest commercial success, and much longer period fronted by Steve Hogarth in which the band have constantly re-invented themselves so as to continue to be relevant into the 21st century.
The Fish era is often categorized as neo-progressive. They originally started as "Silmarillion" (from Tolkien's book) with heavy influences from classic Genesis but went on to develop their own distinctive sound. The band was formed in 1979 by Mick Pointer (drums), Steve Rothery (guitar), Doug 'Rastus' Irvine (bass), and others, soon adding vocalist Fish (real name Derek W. Dick), Diz Minitt (bass), and Brian Jelliman. By the time of their first album, 1983's Script for a Jester's Tear, the bass position had been taken over by Pete Trewavas and keyboards by Mark Kelly.
The studio albums Fugazi (1984), Misplaced Childhood (1985), and Clutching at Straws (1987), as well as the 1984 live album Real to Reel all sold respectably, and the band scored a hit single in Britain with Kayleigh in 1985.
When Fish left the band in 1988 after four albums he was replaced by Steve Hogarth. A former member of The Europeans and some-time collaborator with The The and Julian Cope, Hogarth brought a new energy to the band.
Across a further ten albums, Hogarth – along with existing members Rothery, Kelly, Trewavas, and Mosley – have reinvigorated and constantly redefined Marillion’s sound. They forged into new musical territories with a succession of inventive, emotional albums, displaying little regard to the vagaries of hit charts or radio playlists.
After the release of 1999’s marillion.com the band freed themselves from record company pressure once and for all by launching their own record label, the Intact imprint.
Thanks to their pioneering embrace of the Internet through their website http://marillion.com, Marillion have developed a unique and intimate relationship with their fans. From sponsoring entire tours of the USA to funding the recording of recent albums, Marillion’s global fan-base is unique in its affection and dedication. As a result, such passionate, wholesale support has allowed Marillion to step outside of the conventional music industry and find their own path.
In 2001 Anoraknophobia saw Marillion take the groundbreaking step of asking fans to pre-order an album 12 months before release. An amazing 12,000 people signed up, helping to finance the recording. The band once again took pre-orders for the 2004 release Marbles, but this time the money was channelled into a campaign fund to promote its launch. The success of singles Don't Hurt Yourself and You're Gone – the latter making it all the way to number 7 – vindicated the band's independent strategy.
Their 2007 album Somewhere Else reached number 24 in the UK album chart with their most recent single Thankyou Whoever You Are hitting the UK singles chart at number 15. The band shows no signs of fading away after more than 25 years of activity.
Their 15th album, "Happiness is the road", was physically released in October 2008 but was originally available exclusively from the band's website. It was released with little promotion and a deluxe pre-order package was made available as with Marbles. 'Happiness is the Road' is the second studio double album of a long career (2004's Marbles was the other). A UK and European tour followed the album's release, and the band is taking special effort to record every show in the "Happiness on the Road" tour, making the recordings available from the band's website.
The Fish era is often categorized as neo-progressive. They originally started as "Silmarillion" (from Tolkien's book) with heavy influences from classic Genesis but went on to develop their own distinctive sound. The band was formed in 1979 by Mick Pointer (drums), Steve Rothery (guitar), Doug 'Rastus' Irvine (bass), and others, soon adding vocalist Fish (real name Derek W. Dick), Diz Minitt (bass), and Brian Jelliman. By the time of their first album, 1983's Script for a Jester's Tear, the bass position had been taken over by Pete Trewavas and keyboards by Mark Kelly.
The studio albums Fugazi (1984), Misplaced Childhood (1985), and Clutching at Straws (1987), as well as the 1984 live album Real to Reel all sold respectably, and the band scored a hit single in Britain with Kayleigh in 1985.
When Fish left the band in 1988 after four albums he was replaced by Steve Hogarth. A former member of The Europeans and some-time collaborator with The The and Julian Cope, Hogarth brought a new energy to the band.
Across a further ten albums, Hogarth – along with existing members Rothery, Kelly, Trewavas, and Mosley – have reinvigorated and constantly redefined Marillion’s sound. They forged into new musical territories with a succession of inventive, emotional albums, displaying little regard to the vagaries of hit charts or radio playlists.
After the release of 1999’s marillion.com the band freed themselves from record company pressure once and for all by launching their own record label, the Intact imprint.
Thanks to their pioneering embrace of the Internet through their website http://marillion.com, Marillion have developed a unique and intimate relationship with their fans. From sponsoring entire tours of the USA to funding the recording of recent albums, Marillion’s global fan-base is unique in its affection and dedication. As a result, such passionate, wholesale support has allowed Marillion to step outside of the conventional music industry and find their own path.
In 2001 Anoraknophobia saw Marillion take the groundbreaking step of asking fans to pre-order an album 12 months before release. An amazing 12,000 people signed up, helping to finance the recording. The band once again took pre-orders for the 2004 release Marbles, but this time the money was channelled into a campaign fund to promote its launch. The success of singles Don't Hurt Yourself and You're Gone – the latter making it all the way to number 7 – vindicated the band's independent strategy.
Their 2007 album Somewhere Else reached number 24 in the UK album chart with their most recent single Thankyou Whoever You Are hitting the UK singles chart at number 15. The band shows no signs of fading away after more than 25 years of activity.
Their 15th album, "Happiness is the road", was physically released in October 2008 but was originally available exclusively from the band's website. It was released with little promotion and a deluxe pre-order package was made available as with Marbles. 'Happiness is the Road' is the second studio double album of a long career (2004's Marbles was the other). A UK and European tour followed the album's release, and the band is taking special effort to record every show in the "Happiness on the Road" tour, making the recordings available from the band's website.
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Alphaville May I introduce myself I'm your poison I'm gonna kill…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Marillion:
100 Nights A hundred nights of fun and games A thousand empty…
80 Days Staring down from this high window At the faces in the…
A Collection I've got a photograph I took a picture of you…
A Few Words For The Dead "The songs and the music that I portray comes from…
A Legacy When I leave you I will leave you Things that might…
A State Of Mind He looked down from the airplane A crack in the clouds…
Afraid Of Sunlight Drive the road to your surrender Time comes around... out of…
Afraid Of Sunrise Dressed in black, no turning back We blanked out on the…
After Me There's a line on her jeans that a ball-point made From…
Alice Marillion Unreleased Alice (Currently Unreleased) The pack …
Alone Again In The Lap Of Luxury See those people there? They look after me This is a…
An Accidental Man You ask me how I'm feeling I only wish you…
Angelina Every day at 5 am If you're down or in a…
Answering Machine We flew here to see you My feelings and I I looked…
Assassin I am the assassin, with tongue forged from eloquence I…
Assassing I am the assassin, with tongue forged from eloquence I…
Asylum Satellite #1 It said in the paper that 90% of the universe…
Be Hard On Yourself Big ball of rocks and water Spinning round in space Blue gre…
Be Hard on Yourself Lust for Luxury Don’t talk to me of need Don’t talk to me of…
Be Hard on Yourself the Tear in the Big Picture Big ball of rocks and water Spinning round in space Blue gre…
Be Hard on Yourself You Can Learn The only way forward is to fall over Or you can…
Beaujolais Day I went to Morisson's grave at Pere Lachaise cemetery The st…
Beautiful Everybody knows that we live in a world Where they give…
Bell In The Sea I dreamed I rolled on the ocean floor In the sunken…
Berlin The mascara'd blonde from the Berliner bar Rises at twilight…
Between You And Me Today! I saw music in the sky I drove towards it…
Beyond You If you were a baby I would take you and…
Big Lie It all began with the bright light The bright light and…
Bitter Suite A spider wanders aimlessly within the warmth of a shadow Not…
Blackbird Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken win…
Blind Curve I. Vocal Under A Bloodlight Last night you said I was…
Blind Curve: I. Vocal Under a Bloodlight / II. Passing Strangers / III. Mylo / IV. Perimeter Walk / I. Vocal Under A Bloodlight Last night you said I…
Blue Angel The sky was Bible black in Lyon When I met the…
Born to Run The quiet sadness of the people of the North Echoes…
Brave What a brave, brave girl Never lied before Such a plain dece…
Bridge "A bridge is not a high place..." Staring out over the…
Built-in Bastard Radar Best of three, the angel said As daylight burst behind…
Cannibal Surf (Let's meet up and get beat up) Well she tied me…
Care An Hour Before It's Dark An hour before it’s dark An hour before it’s dark An hour…
Care Angels on Earth The angels in this world are not in the walls…
Care Every Cell These are the days that will flash before our eyes…
Care Maintenance Drugs They give me maintenance drugs Said I’ll be okay They give m…
Cathedral Wall Curl up tight into a ball Curl my body against…
Charting The Single Yeah! Slow French kissing with the Dauphin's daughter If…
Chelsea Monday Catalogue princess, apprentice seductress Hiding in her cel…
Childhood's End And it was morning. And I found myself mourning, for a child…
Childhoods End And it was morning. And I found myself mourning, for a chi…
Childhoods End ? And it was morning. And I found myself mourning, for a child…
Cinderella Search On the rebound, fumbling all the lines The light at the…
Costa Del Slough The hole in the ozone layer Is all right by me…
Cover My Eyes Cover my eyes The light falls on her face Dangerous…
Deserve They got money, they got sun They look like they're…
Don't Hurt Yourself There'll come a time when all of this is over Something…
Dreamy Street I had this dream. That monkey inside o'me. Gone skulkin awa…
Drilling Holes A man came to drill holes in the afternoon And by…
Dry Land In all the time that I've known you You've been so…
Easter A ghost of a mist was on the field The grey…
Eighty Days Staring down from this high window At the faces in the…
El Dorado i. Long-Shadowed Sun I remember The enchanted English wal…
El Dorado Demolished Lives I see myself in them The people at the borders…
El Dorado the Gold The gold stops us The gold always did The gold…
El Dorado The Grandchildren of Apes Metal in the air Brimstone in the lungs Breathe deeply…
Emerald Lies To be the prince of possession in the gallery of…
Enlightened Bound up in this energy ball again Laughing and bouncin' off…
Especially True I gazed upon you from the bleachers A creature so foreign…
Essence Tell you what I want Essence 'Tell you what I need Essence W…
Estonia Feeling you shake Feel your heart break Thinking if only, if…
Exile On Princes Street Due to the nature of this demo, no printed lyrics…
expresso bongo When the taxis gather in mock Solemnity Funeral hearses cour…
Faith What I have here in my hand Is like faith but…
Fake Plastic Trees Her green plastic watering can for her fake chinese rubber…
Fallin' From The Moon Don't ask me why I'm doing this You wouldn't understand Yo…
Fantastic Place Islands are mountain-tops It's always a struggle To let …
Forgotten Sons Armalite, street lights, nightsights Searching the roofs for…
Freaks Have you ever met a lady, screaming angst potential? Have yo…
Fugazi Vodka intimate, an affair with isolation in a Blackheath cel…
Gabriel's Message The angel Gabriel from heaven came His wings as drifted snow…
Garden Party Garden Party held today, invites call the debs to play, Soci…
Gaza When I was young it all seemed like a game Living…
Gazpacho Saw you walking on your velvet lawn Is it lonely on…
Genie One Way Street I let the genie out of the box I…
Go Turn your life upside down Take a car into town…
Going Under Is it wrong to talk to myself even when there's…
Goodbye To All That They try to trace her in the town Appeal for information…
Grendel Midnight suns bid moors farewell, retreats from charging dus…
Half The World When you're driving through the city I hope all your lights…
Happiness Is The Road The greatest blessing that we have Is the dawn of each…
Hard As Love Well I hear that you were looking out to hunt…
He Knows You Know Light switch, yellow fever, crawling up your bathroom wall …
Heart Of Lothian Wide boys, wide boys, wide boys, Born with hearts of Lothian…
Heart of Lothian/Wide Boy/Curtain Call On the outskirts of nowhere On the ring road to somewhere …
Heart of Lothian: I. Wide Boy / II. Curtain Call On the outskirts of nowhere On the ring road to somewhere On…
Heart Of Lothian: Wide Boy / Curtain Call On the outskirts of nowhere On the ring road to somewhere …
Holidays in Eden Did you ever feel that just by jumping on a…
Hollow Man I think I have become one of the hollow men As…
Holloway Girl I was out in the cold of a North London…
Hooks In You 'I feel so strange what's wrong with me' You've got a…
Hope For The Future I've been feeling kind of down and loose Like a…
Hotel Hobbies Hotel hobbies padding dawns hollow corridors Bell boys check…
House This house aches I whistle it's tune After so much…
How Can It Hurt Maybe you're just too upset inside To give it to me…
I Know What I Like One o'clock and time for lunch When the sun beats down…
I Will Walk On Water Something is coming out of the rain, magic It's happening ag…
Icon Even if the good old days were good Even if the…
If My Heart Were A Ball Did you ever fall in love Did you ever fall in…
Incommunicado I'd be really pleased to meet you if I could…
Incubus When footlights dim in reverence to prescient passion forewa…
Interior Lulu As you lie there on your bed Beneath the face…
Invisible Ink I left a note each day under your pillow That I…
It's Not Your Fault You're only human So am I It's such a shame we have…
Jigsaw We are jigsaw pieces aligned on the perimeter edge, Intelock…
Just for the Record Many's the time I've been thinking about changing my ways Bu…
Kayleigh Do you remember chalk hearts melting on a playground wall Do…
King How long can you stand Tightening up Avoiding the fight Avoi…
King of Sunset Town A ragged man came shuffling through A puppet king on the…
Lady Fantasy If the time will come when I'm alone Got no place…
Lady Nina You pick out your credit cards and check into the…
Lap of Luxury See those people there? They look after me This is a…
Lavender I was walking in the park dreaming of a spark When…
Legacy When I leave you I will leave you Things that might…
Live Forever Well I gave up cocaine and I gave up smack I…
Living In F E A R Fear is everywhere here Under the patio Under the hard-ear…
Living With The Big Lie It all began with the bright light The bright light and…
Lords of the Backstage A love song with no validity Pretend you never meant that…
Lucky Man Some of us want a fast car Some of us want…
Mad Tell me I'm mad How should I know? Tell me I'm mad I…
Made Again I have been here many times before In a life I…
Man of 1000 Faces I'm the man of a thousand faces A little piece of…
Man Of A Thousand Faces I'm the man of a thousand faces A little piece of…
Map Of The World Watching the people on the street today she couldn't help…
Marbles I I Did anyone see my last marble As it rolled out and…
Marbles II When I was a child I had marbles They brought admiration…
Marbles III III There were almost four hundred until the black day I d…
Marbles IV That was almost the end of my marbles Confiscated, I choked…
Margaret For me and my true-love will never walk again on…
Marillion A hand held over a candle in angst fuelled bravado A…
Market Square Heroes I found smog at the end of my rainbow I found…
Memory Of Water I wonder if my rope's still hanging from the tree By…
Mirages Absence makes the heart go mad All the solid things…
Misplaced Rendezvous It's getting late for scribbling and scratching on the paper…
Montreal 200 fates entwined inside the plane We watched as England d…
Most Toys But he who dies with the most toys Is still dead. He…
Murder Machines Murder machines Fragments of life Too small to see Don’t kn…
Neverland When the darkness takes me over Face down, emptier than zero…
No One Can You landed in my life Like a new and brighter light…
No Such Thing There's no such thing As an answered prayer There's no such …
Nothing Fills The Hole I wanted it til I got it I wanted it til…
Now She'll Never Know In the after silence fighting leaves behind I try to…
Now Wash Your Hands When you look into the mirror Do you see a…
Now Wash Your Hands 1 When you look into the mirror Do you see a…
Number One You sound truly heartbroken You can do it. You're a pro Agon…
Ocean Cloud He's seen too much of life And there's no going back The…
Older Than Me She's older than me I don't care about them talkin' Why ca…
One Fine Day When we were young we used to say Things would be…
Other Half Air full of feathers Fluttering distant laughter Air full of…
Out Of This World Three hundred miles an hour on water In your purpose-built m…
Paper Lies Good morning! When you look into the mirror Do you see a…
Pour My Love Lids that close and time that slows the rapid eye There…
Power You carry me around Like loose change jingle-jangling At the…
Pseudo Silk Kimono Huddled in the safety of a pseudo silk kimono Wearing bracel…
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