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Band members are Fish (who left in 1988), Steve Hogarth (who joined in 1989), Mark Kelly, Ian Mosley (who joined in 1984), Pete Trewavas and Steve Rothery. Original drummer Mick Pointer was fired from the band in 1983 and only performed on their first album.

Their album "Afraid of Sunlight" was included in Q Magazine's 50 Best Albums of 1995. Despite this, the album was not a commercial success, stalling at 16 on the chart (the first Marillion studio album not to get into the top ten) and staying on the chart for just two weeks. It was their last album for EMI, the label that signed them in 1982.

Their 1985 album "Misplaced Childhood" came fourth in Classic Rock Magazine's list of the 30 greatest concept albums of all time. (March 2003).

They were voted the Best New Band of 1982 by readers of rock magazine Sounds.

They named their 12th album "Anoraknophobia" as a reference to their perennially unfashionable status within the British music industry. More than 12,000 people ordered the album before the band even wrote it, giving them an advance of £200,000 to make it. It also enabled them to retain the rights to the music.