Latest about Marillion
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...
Prog meets Marillion on their Marillion Monthly show
Watch Prog Editor Jerry Ewing in conversation with Marillion from their monthly YouTube show
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
10 massively successful British bands who failed to crack America
Not every band can be as huge as The Beatles or Led Zeppelin in America – just ask Slade, The Small Faces and Status Quo
"We didn't look like hobbits and we hadn't been to public school": how Marillion, IQ, Pendragon and more kick-started the unlikeliest of prog rock revivals
By the end of the 70s they thought it was all over. And few would have bet on prog rock ever coming back again at all, let alone doing so with the success that it did in the 80s
"Christmas is overlaid onto the winter solstice, and that nods towards our pagan past.” Why Christmas is prog's favourite time of the year...
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat… And out roll the usual suspects trying to crack the festive Top 40. Still, it isn’t all about Slade, The Snowman and Sir Cliff. Prog rockers seem to enjoy Christmas more than most...
"In all honesty I’d forgotten how good we were back then": former Marillion frontman Fish on Kayleigh, the song that changed the band for better and worse
Kayleigh was a composite of singer Fish's ex-girlfriends, the lost lover lending her invented name to a new generation of young girls
“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…
