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It’s difficult to recall now what seemed like such heady times: frontman ’s abrupt departure from what was then an arena-filling and the barroom debates that followed; how could they possibly go on without him? Well, with relative ease, it seems. "I was in the office of Rondor, my publishers, and asked if anyone had anything I could do," . "I meant in the office, a bit of typing, or engineering their little demo studio; just basically to be able to relax and enjoy it and not be under any pressure.



The general manager, Alan Jones, lifted his head up off a sofa in his office and said: ‘Do you know Marillion are looking for a singer?’ I said: ‘I didn’t mean that'." Many diehard Marillion fans were sniffy about Hogarth: he’d been in pop bands. But put the doubts to rest.

He had his own style, more naturally melodic than Fish, and if his lyrics (co-written with friend John Helmer) lacked his predecessor’s idiosyncratic edge, there was a sly dig at Fish in . Musically, was a subtle progression, peaking with the elegant and a green-themed title track developed from , a song the band demoed with Fish in 1988. charted at No.

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