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"At one point an aggrieved producer threatened to attack them with a machete": Say what you want about Marillion's second album, but it was not easy to make

Buoyed by the success of Script For A Jester's Tear, follow-up Fugazi was a victim of extremely difficult second album syndrome

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“The fans understood I was the price they had to pay to hear the band they loved, so they put up with me. It’s not like you’re joining the Sex Pistols”: Trevor Horn on fronting Yes – and how it later made 90125 possible

Producer recalls making his colleagues feel “embarrassed and amused at the same time” as he begged them not to give up on Owner Of A Lonely Heart

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"Marillion, Twelfth Night, IQ; to continue to call those bands neo-prog, I don’t see that as particularly positive. Everything has moved quite a lot since then." How Cosmograf defined the sound of Rattrapante

One-man-prog-rock-band Cosmograf returned with their eighth album, Rattrapante, telling Prog, there’s no looking back.

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"Did we mention that there’s also a pool?" Prog sets sail on Cruise To The Edge

Marillion, Steve Hackett, Flying Colors, Haken, Big Big Train and more make a big prog noise on the high seas

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Marillion share new live clip of Reprogram The Gene

UK prog rockers Marillion will release a new live album An Hour Before It’s Dark: Live in Port Zélande 2023 in June

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Fugazi: A great title but no songs to go with it… even the pathologically casual Marillion started to worry they’d never write the record, and they’d never get a drummer to play on it if they did

The story of how Marillion made their second album, 1984's aptly titled Fugazi

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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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"I've felt very loved and cared about." Marillion's Pete Trewavas updates fans after recent heart surgery

Marillion have announced that Nick Beggs will replace Pete Trewavas for Cruise To The Edge

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“There was this theory that once one major label had a prog band, all the others would follow suit…it didn’t really work like that”: Twelfth Night deserved big-time success with Fact And Fiction. That’s not what happened

They pipped Marillion to the post to be the first of the 80s prog bands to release an album, and fought hard to make it happen - but bad luck trumped their talent

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"The middle of the day was Marillion. Mornings and evenings DeeExpus." What happened when Mark Kelly joined North East prog rockers DeeExpus

The rise of DeeExpus has been swift. Now with their second album King Of Number 33 and Marillion keyboardist Mark Kelly in tow, prog stardom awaits.

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Marillion bassist Pete Trewavas updates fans from hospital

Marillion recently announced that Nick Beggs would replace Pete Trewavas for Cruise To The Edge

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14 best prog rock tracks to test your hi-fi system

Our team of product experts detail the top prog rock tracks they use to test hi-fi and audio kit

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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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“It’s a blessing and a curse… there’s times you feel like they’re hacking up your child! But the real freedom comes in trusting that it will all work out for the best”: How supergroup Transatlantic made Kaleidoscope

Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy, Pete Trewavas and Roine Stolt either flowed together like streams entering a powerful river – or made a pact to leave control-freak tendencies at the studio door

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New book documenting the 80s prog scene to be published in June

Mirror Of Dreams is the first of a two volume set on the 80s prog revival, this one covering the years 1981-1983

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“He never set out to please or comfort, so we often end up with his brilliant musical mind at its best… For that, we can forgive the physical abuse of a few Hammond L-100s”: King Crimson, Marillion, Tangent members and more pay tribute to Keith Emerson

15 more examples of his best work, as described by Jakko Jakszyk, Mark Kelly, Andy Tillison, Jem Godfrey, Arjen Lucassen and musicians who worked with the late keyboard genius

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"I always wanted Magnum to be an underground band, not a pop band": How Tony Clarkin wrote Magnum's first Top 40 hit, Days Of No Trust

Late Magnum guitarist Tony Clarkin on how political cynicism and a day at Donington inspired a pomp-rock classic

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“I was just lost… but if you just fall to the floor and lie there, you’re just going to take a kicking. I had to stand up and fight”: When Fish made an album about the most difficult time of his life

Broke, directionless and dumped just before his wedding, the former Marillion singer forged 13th Star amid the turmoil

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We celebrate the 80s prog revival on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!

Plus Greg Lake, Yes, Nektar, Francis Dunnery, Moon Safari, Cyan, Tarja, Mariusz Duda, Earthside, Matt Berry and loads more...

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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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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now, including Amon Amarth, The Record Company, Marillion and more

The final Tracks Of The Week contest of 2023 is officially underway

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“A band can be one thing for so many years then change into something completely different”: Once a bit metal, Leprous now have more in common with Marillion than with ritualistic rebellion against ideology

Yes, they were Ihsan’s backing group… yes, they use to play extreme music and wear corpse paint… but lead singer Einar Solberg explains they’re really a grandiose prog unit.

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Prog meets Marillion on their Marillion Monthly show

Watch Prog Editor Jerry Ewing in conversation with Marillion from their monthly YouTube show

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King Crimson and Can were among their go-to inspirations – but in the new romantic era, Talk Talk couldn’t admit it

Steve Hogarth, Tim Bowness, Richard Barbieri and others speak up for the band’s prog credentials

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