Trivia

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.

In 2003 broke the record for the fastest release of a DVD concert. The official Guinness World Record listing reads: 'The fastest time for a music DVD to be filmed and then released is 63 hr 29 min. Featuring the band Marillion, it was recorded at the Marillion Convention at Butlins, Minehead, Somerset UK on 14 March 2003, before going on sale to the public on 17 March 2003.'.

By 2004 they had sold over 14 million albums and played over 1,100 gigs.

Despite the fact only one member of the band was Scottish, because their lead singer during their most high profile years in the 1980s was Scottish, they are often referred to as a Scottish band (including by music journalist and broadcaster Mark Ellen in his book "Rock Stars Stole my Life!: A Big Bad Love Affair with Music").

They are mentioned in the lyrics of the song "Guest Informant" by The Fall.

Their 1987 album "Clutching at Straws" featured Robert Burns, Dylan Thomas, Truman Capote and Lenny Bruce on the front cover and James Dean, Jack Kerouac and John Lennon on the back.

In October and November 2017, the band performed for the first time at two of London's most prestigious and historic venues, the Royal Albert Hall and the London Palladium.