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MARILLION
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Due 04 December 2026
Item no. :YS079 Barcode :0823564040912 Artist :MARILLION Product type :Compact Disc Label :YARD STICK Release Date :04 December 2026
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The band released their debut single 'Market Square Heroes' in 1982, followed a year later by their first album, Script for a Jester's Tear. They have released 20 studio albums in total. The band achieved eight Top 10 UK albums between 1983 and 1994, including a No. 1 album in 1985 with Misplaced Childhood. The album also produced two UK Top 10 singles in 'Kayleigh' (No. 2) and 'Lavender' (No. 5), while the follow-up album, 1987's Clutching at Straws, included another UK Top 10 single, 'Incommunicado' (No. 6). Clutching at Straws was the band's last studio album with their original lead singer, Fish, who left for a solo career in late 1988. Altogether, during the Fish era, Marillion had 11 Top 40 hits on the UK Singles Chart. 'Kayleigh' also entered the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.
In 1977, drummer Mick Pointer had joined the group Electric Gypsy, which also included Doug Irvine on bass, Alan King on vocals and Andy Glass (later of Solstice) on guitar. Pointer and Irvine left to form their own band, Silmarillion, named after J. R. R. Tolkien's book The Silmarillion, in late 1978. They played one London show as an instrumental band with Neil Cockle (keys) and Martin Jenner (guitar). 1979 saw a new line-up of Mick Pointer, Steve Rothery (guitar), Doug Irvine (bass/vocals) and Brian Jelliman (keys). They played their first concert at Berkhamsted Civic Centre, Hertfordshire, on 1 March 1980. According to Pointer, it was at this stage that the name was shortened to Marillion.
Singer Fish and bassist William 'Diz' Minnitt replaced original bassist/vocalist Doug Irvine following an audition at Leyland Farm Studios in Buckinghamshire on 2 January 1981. The line-up of Rothery, Pointer, Jelliman, Fish and Minnitt performed their first gig at the Red Lion pub in Bicester on 14 March 1981.