If they’d said to me, ‘This is our last album, this is what it sounds like, this is how many copies it sold and this is what we want you to do’, I wouldn’t have been interested. What did you think you could bring to the band? But on all other fronts, it’s Marillion 1 and Fish 0.ĭL. That’s a ghost we haven’t been able to lay to rest. If the Daily Mail ever talks about Marillion they still print a picture of Fish, even now. But it did pan out like that in media terms.
In musical terms it didn’t happen that way, or in business terms because we make more money than him. Everyone expected Fish to thrive as a solo artist and Marillion to fall by the wayside without him. But on all other fronts, it’s Marillion 1 and Fish 0”ĭL. “If the Daily Mail ever talks about Marillion they still print a picture of Fish, that’s a ghost But when I met up with them it didn’t take long at all to make up my mind. I always say I had to make a choice between the most hip band in the world, and the least. At about the same time, Matt Johnson of The The asked me to play piano on his tour. I’d forgotten all about it until January 1989, when they rang. Did you even know Marillion were looking for a new lead singer? They also had a demo studio in the basement where’s have been quite happy engineering their other acts.ĭL. It was in a groovy building on Parsons Green and I’d have done anything at all.
Yeah! I had no income and was completely skint. What, you’d have considered busying yourself with some filing? My previous band, How We Live, had just split up and one day I went into Rondor Music and asked whether anyone could think of anything I could do. To be honest, I wasn’t terribly interested in doing it. My publisher sent a tape, at the back end of 1988.
What were the circumstances of your joining Marillion? Everybody knew the position was vacant after Fish left, but did you send off a tape like all the other hopefuls? Previously published in CLASSIC ROCK magazineĪfter several years away from their long-time home, EMI Records, how better to commemorate Marillion’s return to their original label than a lengthy inquisition at the company’s plush Hammersmith offices? Vocalist Steve Hogarth was keener than ever to discuss the "millstone" of the band's progressive rock heritage, sinking a couple of bottles of Becks as he explained what he sees as the "laughable" misconceptions that continue to surround the group…ĭL.
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