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“There was a girl who wrote letters to Fish in her own blood, and there was an American you could imagine having a John Lennon moment with. You have to be careful”: Steve Rothery’s life and times with Marillion

It’s always been about music for the veteran guitarist, although distractions have included catching fire at the band’s first gig, realising he should be much richer than he actually was, and an alternative career he came close to pursuing

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Steve Rothery reveals details of new Bioscope album with Tangerine Dream's Thorsten Quaeschning

Steve Rothery and Tangerine Dream's Thorsten Quaeschning will release new collaborative album Gentō’ in July

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“We’d all seen The Wall; we knew there were good rock movies out there”: Inspired by Pink Floyd, Marillion made a film out of their 1994 concept album Brave. It didn’t go well

Marillion’s attempt to make a full-length move to accompany 1994 concept album Brave went so badly that the director disassociated himself from it

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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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"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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“Unrestrained, progressively complex and compelling – there isn’t a weak album among the four”: Fish and Marillion were only together for a seven-year period, but it’s what they did with it that counts

11 songs from the era when the charismatic Scotsman and Aylesbury's finest prog adventurers defined a musical identity that defied dismissal

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The 30 greatest David Gilmour performances

David Gilmour's 30 greatest moments, as chosen by members of Marillion, Roxy Music, Asia, Solstice, TesseracT, Haken and more

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“They had the uncanny ability to make odd meter into a catchy, radio-friendly experience”: Hawkind, Dream Theater, Styx, Def Leppard, Manic Street Preachers, Napalm Death members and others name their favourite Rush songs

Steven Wilson, Arjen Lucassen, Steve Rothery and more famous fans pick their top tracks – with some surprising results

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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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Steve Rothery, Ray Wilson and John Hackett to guest with Steve Hackett at the Royal Albert Hall

Steve Hackett's Genesis Greats Lamb Highlights & Solo Tour takes place in the UK throughout October

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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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Steve Rothery and Mark King guest on new Dave Foster Band album

Anglo-Dutch proggers The Dave Foster Band will release Maybe They’ll Come Back For Us in May

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“We’re prog rock without the solos”: Experimental sounds, non-linear arrangements and big, conceptual ideas would seem to prove Guy Garvey is right about his band Elbow

Loved by many in the prog community – less so among purists – the lead singer talks about his love of the genre and where his band fit in

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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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“Computers crashed several times… I recorded vocals four or five times. But on the other hand, I started doing my job alone, learning many things”: Why Tarja Turunen recruited Mike Oldfield, Trevor Rabin and Steve Rothery for Outlanders

Former Nightwish singer’s new direction took nearly a decade to deliver – but she’s ready to do it all over again

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“Blade approached me to do a signature model, but I’ve been disappointed by the lack of contact since I agreed. They still owe me a guitar!” Cheap guitars, Joni Mitchell chords, punk influences – Steve Rothery isn’t like other prog guitarists

The Marillion man insists there’s no great secret to finding a tone, but the important thing is deciding what to do with it. He explains how an acoustic great influenced his chordal approach and why he thinks he started his music academy 10 years too soon

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“Brian Eno has a very simple view on music - the more we clutter it up with things the more foggy the goodness gets”: Huey Morgan’s prog education

Former Fun Lovin’ Criminals frontman traces a line from Nat King Cole and Frank SInatra to Talk Talk, Marillion, Jethro Tull and others

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"In her last year she was telling everyone she was the girl in the song and she was proud of it. To complete that cycle was nice": The story of Marillion's Kayleigh deserves to be made into a Hollywood movie

Girl meets boy, they split up, boy writes huge hit about girl, they meet years later and tragedy. Richard Curtis couldn't have made this story up…

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Steve Rothery Band and Karnivool to headline Midsummer Prog Festival

Next year's Midsummer Prog Festival takes place in the Netherlands on June 28 and 29

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“I didn’t have much knowledge of Marillion. A singer who painted his face like Peter Gabriel? It all seemed a little bit derivative…” How Marillion reinvented themselves with Steve Hogarth and Seasons End

When Fish left Marillion, the band had two options: Move forward or become a parody. And then they met an aspiring – and initially sceptical – art-pop singer-songwriter called Steve Hogarth…

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“I thought: 'There’s got to be other people that are into this style of stuff. Not everybody has got a spiky haircut!’” Marillion and the making of Script For A Jester's Tear

The 70s are drawing to a close, punk is raging, and five young men from an Aylesbury band called Marillion are plotting the unlikeliest of things: how to take prog back into the charts...

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