“When I joined the band I thought it might last for two or three albums, you know, with a bit of luck.”Steve Hogarth As surprising as it seems, for the last five months of 1988, Marillion were an instrumental quartet. After the acrimonious departure of frontman Fish that summer, Aylesbury’s finest were faced with the unenviable task of deciding what to do next. They were still working on new music, of course, because that’s what they’d always done (and still do nearly 35 years later), but the spotlight that had illuminated their former singer was now hitting an empty centre-stage.
“There was a sense of relief when Fish left, to be honest,” says guitarist Steve Rothery. “It was like a huge weight was lifted off our shoulders, just because things…
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