Over the next few months I sought out and bought the previous albums, “Script For A Jester’s Tear”, “Fugazi” and the live offering “Real to Reel”. What I did hear was something that I liked, I liked it then and I like it now. I took “Misplaced Childhood” home, gingerly placed it on the trusty Dansette and sat back to listen to the whole album not really sure what I was about to hear.

“Kayleigh” however was somewhat more melodic and lured by the melody I listened to the words. Maybe I didn’t listen properly maybe a number of things but at first “Market Square Heroes” didn’t really do it for me. My brother had discovered Marillion earlier than I had he had the single of “Market Square Heroes” which I thought, after an initial listening, was something that I wasn’t quite, you know, “into”. I’d heard the single “Kayleigh” on the wireless and I’d liked it so being an “album” sort of guy, I went down to the local record shop and bought the album. I came to Marillion late despite Marillion being a fairly local band to where I lived at the time, fairly local to where I live now in fact and despite the fact that their first concert (as Silmarillion at the time and before Fish joined as vocalist) was in the Civic Centre in my home town of Berkhamsted, I came to Marillion after the release of Misplaced Childhood. But everyone’s cup of tea Marillion isn’t. I’m sure some of them do it on purpose and some of them most likely do it because they heard about the band back in the eighties when they had singles in the charts.

Let’s face it, Marillion isn’t everybody’s cup of tea and when people hear that I’m a fan of Marillion they still ask about Fish.

Marillion midi files