Marillion’s debut album, 1983’s Script For A Jester’s Tear, which had muscled its way into the Top 10, had turned them into one of the most talked-about new bands in the UK. Big things were therefore expected of the follow-up, not least from their label EMI. “We were riding on the back of Script, we’d done our first American tour, it was all wonderful,” says Fish, Marillion’s original singer and lyricist. “And then we hit Fugazi.”
The band’s second album, Fugazi was a lesson in how not to make a record. “We used up all the material we had on Script,” says keyboard player Mark Kelly. “We needed to come up with an album’s worth of material, and we pretty much had to start from scratch.”
