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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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