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t’s been thirty years since Steve ‘H’ Hogarth that time, they were making noises no one else had
took over as the singer in Marillion. During made. Those things are staples now; a screaming
this time the band have pioneered new ways of Strat, a heavy metal lead singer, the Hammond, but
making the music industry work for them, and they hadn’t been listening to heavy rock, it didn’t exist,
Ievolved into one of the most creative and they’d been listening to the blues and jazz, but there
complex (yet listenable) forces in modern prog rock. they were making this incredible noise, ‘what on earth
Here, the former Europeans frontman recalls how The is this?! It’s amazing!’
Blue Nile and Bowie made him the musician he is
today, and why he’d never have made it as a Beatle.

The

Soundtrack

Of My Life

Marillion

frontman

Steve

Hogarth

on the special

records, artists

and gigs that

are of lasting

significance

to him.

Interview: Philip Wilding

Family Life by The Blue Nile. Achingly sad and anyone
who’s ever had any domestic problems, and I’ve had a
few, it just hits you, this unbelievably sad and truthful
song. I love The Blue Nile.

MY ‘IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE’ SONG
Sexual Healing takes some whacking, as it were. Or This
City Never Sleeps by the Eurythmics. Dave Stewart is
a genius and Annie Lennox is one of the best female
singers to have walked the earth.

THE SONG I WANT PLAYED AT MY FUNERAL
I wrote it, it’s called Arc Light and it’s a song from an EP
of the same name by me and Richard Barbieri. Those
words are what I want at the end, those are my waving
goodbye words. I could have died after I’d written that,
“Deep Purple opened a door for me. because that’s how I feel about dying.

Marillion - With Friends From The Orchestra is out
They made noises no one else had made.” now via earMUSIC

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