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Established in 1998,
Nostalgia Central is your one stop reference guide through five decades of music, movies, television, pop culture
and social history
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Marillion
In the early 1980s, while Yes and Genesis were having pop hits
and Pink Floyd were coming unglued, a new band emerged as
standard bearers for prog rock.
With a Tolkien-inspired name (they were originally called
Silmarillion) and a theatrical singer - Derek Dick (known
professionally as Fish) Marillion developed into the best prog
band of the 1980s.
The band had a fondness for lengthy, wordy, complex songs,
such as Grendel - which they had the balls to open
with at the Reading Festival in 1983. But just two years later
Marillion had a pop hit of their own with Kayleigh.
By 1987, Marillion were headlining at Wembley Arena.
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