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“I said, ‘I quit!’ He said, ‘Take six months off, then I’ll call and find out if you’ve still left.’ When he called I couldn’t remember what we’d been arguing about”: Steve Hogarth, Marillion and several false starts

Why wasn’t the singer bothered about singing? Why did miners keep attacking him in Doncaster? How did the music industry break his heart? Which collaborator makes him worry about being strangled? The “hippie in the jaws of punk” looks back

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“Afraid Of Sunlight escaped more than it was released." How Marillion's eighth album brought the curtain down on their time at EMI and set the band up for the rest of their career...

1994's Brave set Marillion on a collision course with their record label, EMI. A year later, they went out on a high with Afraid of Sunlight. This is the story...

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Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson is on the cover of the new, gift-packed issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Yes, Steve Hogarth, Exploring Birdsong, The Paradox Twin, Franck Carducci. Tarja, Liminal Sky, A.A. Williams, MONO, Burning Shed and loads more...

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“If he’s having a rough time, if he’s in a bad place, we’re usually in for a good album!”: Marillion’s Steve Hogarth started to write songs that made him cry. He can’t stop now

The singer names the track where he and his colleagues matched perfectly – even though it hurt to create it

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“Whether I’ve denied the world a lot of great music, I don’t know. Maybe they’ve done that to me. Maybe they should have”: Steve Hogarth’s first 30 years with Marillion

He discusses embracing artistic tension, avoiding the well-trodden path, escaping his narcissism, what really went wrong with the record industry, the band’s decade in the wilderness and why it took him 28 years to get them to the Royal Albert Hall

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Marillion's Steve Hogarth shares cover of Leonard Cohen's Famous Blue Raincoat as he announces new live album

Steve Hogarth will release live album SPQR, with Italian prog rockers RanestRane, on CD, Blu-ray and vinyl, in January

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“Proof they can go for the heart as well as the head, encouraging thought and emotional commitment”: Marillion’s 20 best songs as chosen by Prog readers (the band can’t believe Number 7)

Does the only album with four entries suggest there’s a definitive record from the neo-prog giants? Does the split between the Fish and Steve Hogarth eras reveal a preferred vocalist?

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“Roger Waters’ Amused To Death is something you have to pay attention to. If it had Pink Floyd on the cover, it would have sold millions”: BBC chief football writer Phil McNulty’s prog record collection

The pundit, who met John Wetton and Geoff Downes through their mutual love of the sport, recommends albums by Asia, Supertramp, Marillion and others

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“He said, ‘We can’t use this – people will think we’re a Christian rock band!’ I went and got myself a drink. There was no arguing with that kind of thinking”: Marillion’s battle over the cover for Afraid Of Sunlight

Diplomacy abandoned singer Steve Hogarth and keyboardist Mark Kelly in disagreement over 1995 artwork, which was later reinstated. In the end it was just another fight between mates

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"Steve Hogarth bursts into the studio, holding a gun": What happened when Marillion allowed a journalist to play on their new album

In 2008, Marillion got a Classic Rock journalist to play on the album Happiness Is The Road, and things got weird

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“She encourages us to ask big questions: Is there a reason to believe in a god? Are art and death aspects of the same experience? Can we just enjoy sex and stop being hung up about it?” Prog stars choose the 40 greatest Kate Bush songs of all time

Members of Marillion, King Crimson, Nightwish, Big Big Train and others compile a list of a uniqe artist’s most powerful and persuasive creations

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“Asked if Going For The One was about God, spirituality or the oneness of all people, he said no – it was about putting a tenner on a horse race. You’re almost better off not knowing that!” Steve Hogarth on his hero Jon Anderson

The Marillion man was so moved by the experience of hearing Yes for the first time that he wrote a song about it

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“I’d have been up for having Slash on the album – but I’d have insisted he played the xylophone!” Steve Hogarth and Richard Barbieri pushed each other hard on their first album Not the Weapon But The Hand

Marillion vocalist found himself singing over drum’n’bass music on 2012 release, while Porcupine Tree keyboardist had to allow lyrics in a piece he’d wanted to be instrumental – but the result of years of effort satisfied them both

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"There was a decadent, hedonistic atmosphere in Berlin. It was a great time for making music": Marillion look back on the making of the album that tore the band apart

Fish, Steve Rothery and Mark Kelly look back at the making of Marillion's best-known and most successful record, Misplaced Childhood

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“I thought I’d have to sell my house. The manager suggested we got part-time jobs”: Marillion were facing oblivion. Then they made This Strange Engine and found a way forward

They still don’t agree over the contents of their make-or-break 1997 album – except on one thing they did wrong

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"No set list, just whatever happens." Steve Hogarth announces his traditional Christmas shows

Marillion singer Steve Hogarth will play live shows in England Germany and the Netherlands over the festive period

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"Maybe we can open for Marillion on the next tour?” The story of Mark Kelly and Marathon

The story of Marillion. keyboard player Mark Kelly's first solo venture with Mark Kelly's Marathon

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“It’s hard to be angry young men at our age, but there are some pretty heavy duty lyrics here. Sometimes you’ve got to speak up”: When Marillion defied expectations (again) with Sounds That Can’t Be Made

The band deliberately – but doubtfully – pushed boundaries with the subjects they explored on their 17th studio album

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“It was sounding great, then halfway through the loop stops… We turned into a sort of working men’s club band!”: Marillion’s late-career hit single didn’t stop people asking Steve Hogarth about Fish

You’re Gone, from 2004 album Marbles, was their first Top 10 entry since 1987, and the track came about in a non-standard manner for the band

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"The first time I heard Fish singing, I felt him connecting with me. The first time I heard Steve Hogarth singing, I felt he was connecting with my girlfriend": Marillion ring the changes on Seasons End

How could Marillion ever replace Fish, their charismatic and beloved frontman? With relative ease, it transpired

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“The jollity can’t undercut the impact of the music”: Marillion’s An Hour Before It‘s Dark: Live In Port Zelande

Pandemic-era masterpiece brought vividly to life with additional material.

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“The fans understood I was the price they had to pay to hear the band they loved, so they put up with me. It’s not like you’re joining the Sex Pistols”: Trevor Horn on fronting Yes – and how it later made 90125 possible

Producer recalls making his colleagues feel “embarrassed and amused at the same time” as he begged them not to give up on Owner Of A Lonely Heart

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"Did we mention that there’s also a pool?" Prog sets sail on Cruise To The Edge

Marillion, Steve Hackett, Flying Colors, Haken, Big Big Train and more make a big prog noise on the high seas

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"It's a celebration that we’re still alive and we’re still going and hopefully there’s still light at the end of the tunnel." The story of Marillion and An Hour Before It's Dark

Six years on from FEAR beingreleased during a time of political turmoil, and yet nothing could have prepared Marillion for the challenges they’d face in making its follow-up

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“I was just lost… but if you just fall to the floor and lie there, you’re just going to take a kicking. I had to stand up and fight”: When Fish made an album about the most difficult time of his life

Broke, directionless and dumped just before his wedding, the former Marillion singer forged 13th Star amid the turmoil

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