Marillion – Holidays In Eden “They say that some are born to burn, And some are born to give. They say that people live and learn, Some people only live and live.” The Seasons End tour that followed the release of the band’s first post Fish album was a massive one. It took in over …
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Marillion – Seasons End / Fish – Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors “Everybody lives and loves and laughs and cries and eats and sleeps and grows and dies” – Marillion “Everything I say is wrapped up in an old Cliché” – Fish In late 1988 Marillion were faced with a scenario that only Genesis …
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Marillion – B’Sides Themselves, The Thieving Magpie, Fish Splits and Tic-Tac-Toe “The first best move I made in the music business was joining the band, the second best was leaving it.” Fish (1993 interview with Anil Prasad) With the release of Clutching At Straws the band immediately set out on another massive tour lasting over …
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Marillion – Brief Encounter/Clutching At Straws “So if you want my address it’s number one at the end of the bar. Where I sit with the broken angels, Clutching at straws and nursing our scars” Following the release of Misplaced Childhood the band jauntily set out on a world tour that lasted from May 1985 through …
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Marillion – Real To Reel/Misplaced Childhood “A love song with no validity. Pretend you never meant that much to me” The Fugazi tour saw the band perform around 60 shows mostly in the Europe and Great Britain but it also included a few in the Eastern US and Canada…notably multiple shows in Montreal and Quebec …
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Marillion – Fugazi “I’m the producer of your nightmare and the performance has just begun” Script For A Jester’s Tear was a success in the UK hitting number 7 in the charts and both singles charted as well, so an auspicious beginning. They did a UK tour and released a VHS titled Recital Of The …
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Marillion – Formation through Script For A Jester’s Tear “I found smog at the end of my rainbow I found my thoughts shift slowly into phase “ My older brother is two years older than me. He was born in 1966 and me in 1968. When I started High School in the fall of 1982 …
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Genesis – Calling All Stations “Can anybody tell me, tell me exactly where I am” Following the release of We Can’t Dance the band embarked on a 55 date tour from May through July 1992 in North America and Europe and another 16 UK dates in October and November. This featured arenas and huge stadiums …
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Loggins and Messina Loggins and Messina’s Sittin’ In album is one of maybe four albums I can recall that my parents used to listen to a lot in the early/mid 1970s and as a result are some of my earliest musical memories. Before albums like Dire Straits and Billy Joel’s The Stranger and 52nd Street …
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Genesis – We Can’t Dance “Leaving us all behind, lost in a changing world” All right moving on to Genesis’ fourteenth studio album which was the last one with Phil Collins and my 17th album review post. I’m gonna try to keep this one under 3000 words. That being said I never imagined I could …
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