Marillion are a British rock band, formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 1979. They are best known for the 1985 singles ‘Kayleigh’ and ‘Lavender’ The band achieved eight Top Ten UK albums between 1983 and 1994, including a number one album in 1985 with Misplaced Childhood. In 2016, they returned to the UK Albums Chart Top Ten for the first time in 22 years.
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Marillion are a British rock band, formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 1979. They are best known for the 1985 singles ‘Kayleigh’ and ‘Lavender’ The band achieved eight Top Ten UK albums between 1983 and 1994, including a number one album in 1985 with Misplaced Childhood. In 2016, they returned to the UK Albums Chart Top Ten for the first time in 22 years with their highest chart placing since 1987. Despite unpopularity in the mainstream media and a consistently unfashionable status within the British music industry, Marillion have maintained a very loyal international fanbase. The band are widely acknowledged as playing a pioneering role in the development of crowdfunding and fan-funded music. They have sold over 15 million albums worldwide and are ranked 38th in Classic Rock’s \”50 Best Live Acts of All Time\” in 2008. Marillion’s recorded studio output since 1982 is composed of nineteen albums, generally regarded in two distinct eras, delineated by the departure of original lead singer Fish in late 1988 and the arrival of replacement Steve Hogarth in early 1989. They were subsequently signed by EMI Records and released their first single, ‘He Knows You Know’, on Friday the 13th July 1981. The group attracted attention with a three-track session for the Friday Rock Show on BBC One’s Friday Night Rock Show. They played their first concert at Berkhamsted Civic Centre, Hertfordshire, on 1 March 1980.
The name Marillion was shortened to Marillion in 1981 to avoid potential copyright conflicts, at the same time as Fish and bassist William ‘Diz’ Minnitt replaced original bassistvocalist Doug Irvine following an audition at Leyland Farm Studios in Buckinghamshire on 2 January 1981. Their first recordings were two demos recorded in March and the summer of 1980, prior to Fish andMinnitt joining the band. The second demo has an instrumental version of ‘Alice’ in place of ‘Scott’s Porridge’, with vocals by Doug Irvine. All tracks apart from the second demo are instrumental, apart from ‘The Haunting of Gill House’, which has three tracks; ‘Lady Fantasy’, ‘Herne the Hunter’, and ‘Scott’s Porridge’. The first demo was recorded at The Enid studio in Enid, Herts, in July 1981, and included early versions of ‘Herne The Hunter’ and ‘Lady Fantasy’, as well as ‘The H haunting of Gill. House.’ The band were signed to EMI records and recorded their first album, ‘Misplaced Childhood,’ which was released in 1983. The album was the first Marillion album to be released under the EMI label, and the first to feature a female lead singer, Samantha Kelly. By the end of 1981, Kelly had replaced Jelliman, with Trewavas replacing Minn Witt in 1982. The line-up was completed by Steve Rothery, drummer Mick Pointer, and keyboardist Brian Jellingiman.
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