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How Marillion Helped Resurrect Prog on ‘Misplaced Childhood’

Prog rock was mostly dead and buried by 1985, but Marillion  helped resurrect the genre – albeit in a glossier, streamlined context – with Misplaced Childhood .

The band's third album, released on June 17, 1985, soared to No. 1 on the U.K. chart on the strength of the hit singles "Kayleigh" and "Lavender" – and proved the commercial success of the previous year's  Fugazi was no fluke. But Marillion also reached their creative zenith on the LP, which remains the cornerstone of the entire "neo-prog" movement.

Misplaced Childhood is a loosely assembled concept album spearheaded by then-frontman Fish, who weaves together fractured ruminations on adolescence, lost love and the downside of rock stardom. The singer-lyricist reportedly came up with the bold idea during a 10-hour acid trip. Staring at a print by Jerry Schurr called "Padres Bay," Fish found his inspiration.

"I was in 'Padres Bay' when suddenly I felt a child standing behind me on the stairs," he said in 1998 . "I knew he was dressed as a soldier and vanished as soon as he entered the corner or my eye. Perhaps it was my muse; perhaps it was the drug. It was enough to propel me into reaming off a large scrawl of prose."

That cohesive thematic structure is mirrored by the arrangements, which flow elegantly from the artful synth-and-volume-pedal textures of opener "Pseudo Silk Kimono" to triumphant rock closer "White Feather." Steve Rothery's New Wave-y riffs give the album a decidedly '80s sheen, but his Steve Hackett -esque solos keep the songs grounded in the prog idiom. Keyboardist Mark Kelly takes a similar approach, moving from breezy synth pads to intricate melodic runs.

The lightweight "Kayleigh" became Marillion's breakout hit, peaking at No. 2 on the U.K. chart. But its straightforward verse-chorus structure and soft-pop chorus gave noodly-minded fans cause for concern. (" Didn't I break your heart? " Fish croons on the track. The answer, for some fans, was a resounding "yes.")

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"One of my most vivid memories of the time was when my wife to be, Jo, asked me to explain how I came up with my musical ideas, picking up a nearby guitar I started improvising what later became the 'Kayleigh' riff whilst explaining that I tried to combine melody and rhythm," Rothery said. "I sometimes wonder if we would have still written 'Kayleigh' if she had asked me if there was anything good on the telly instead!"

But even if  Misplaced Childhood  sounds seamless, the songs weren't easy to assemble. "Most of the album was written and arranged, in some cases even down to the solos," explained keyboardist Mark Kelly. "Being a concept album we attempted to make the music flow seamlessly from one song to the next which presented a few problems. ‘Lords of the Backstage' originally followed ‘Lavender' but was moved at the last minute to follow ‘Waterhole.' I was asked to come up with a link section to get us from 'Waterhole' into 'Lords' the day we recorded the master. I felt under a lot of pressure and was not happy with the result because it sounds forced to me."

The quintet – also including bassist Pete Trewavas and drummer Ian Mosley – recorded the songs at Hansa Studios in Berlin, during a turbulent time for the city.

"Now when you think if it, Berlin was a walled city at the time," Trewavas said. "After all, it was early 1985. If you had enough money you could buy whatever you wanted. There was a great little bar under the studio where we all discovered the most horrible drink in the world (begins with an M by the way). My most memorable moment is probably playing pool with Ian against Depeche Mode and the keyboard player who wore the dress got the winning shot. (I was so embarrassed.) P.S.: He had a fantastic looking girlfriend."

One year after the release of Marillion's fourth album, 1987's Clutching at Straws , Fish left the band to pursue a solo career. Steve Hogarth joined the line-up for 1989's  Seasons End and has remained frontman ever since. In keeping, Misplaced Childhood continued to hold "a lot of memories from a period that was very exciting and crammed with experiences both dark and magical" for Fish, as he said in an announcement for an anniversary tour in 2015.

"The lyrics on that album hold a very special meaning to me as they were written by a young man on the cusp of fame and dealt with a lot of personal issues," Fish added. "It was not only a breakthrough album for the band but also for me as an artist because I was finally discovering my own individual style as a lyricist and singer."    

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Mid-80s Marillion: a religion to fans, a punchline to others. They were deemed so unfashionable in the era of The Smiths, the Mary Chain and The Cure that those who’d seen the light were only galvanized by the opprobrium. To hear Misplaced Childhood – the band’s masterpiece and biggest seller – now, out of context, liberated from playground peer pressure, is to recognise a truly great concept album. It’s one that believes 41 minutes of rock music can – like a film or book – aim for the stars and present a story full of emotion, poetry and, above all, drama. It’s way stronger than more revered milestones like, say, Quadrophenia (which it references with a cheeky ‘ rain on me ’), where for your handful of peak moments you have to wade through loads of undisciplined musical waffle. And the misconception that prog is all about indulgent jamming and noodling? There’s zero fat here. Everything lasts exactly as long as feels right.

As the leader of the neo-prog pack, it’s lean, slick and makes every punch count. Produced by Chris Kimsey, who’d honed his skills with the Stones and had more recently delivered Killing Joke’s most powerful and palatable album Night Time , it’s a textbook example of how to get a group’s individual voice across without either diluting them or alienating the general listener. It sounds delicious, recorded as it was at Berlin’s Hansa Tonstodio. All things considered, it’s a wonder it was ever so uncool in ’85.

It’s still almost impossible to convert sceptics though. One trick to whet appetites is to declare that if Sweet Thing/ Candidate from Diamond Dogs was a whole album, it’d pan out like this.

Marillion back then were compared to Gabriel-era Genesis, even if they thought they were just as inspired by The Who. Again, though, Misplaced Childhood is never frilly rock opera. It builds, flows, makes its own sense. When there are linked tracks, repeated motifs or instrumental passages, they contribute to the whole. If Genesis had been making it up as they went along, Marillion were in the lucky position of possessing the map they’d handed down. There are climaxes, breathers, more climaxes. It’s a design classic.

They’d limbered up with Script For A Jester’s Tear and Fugazi , neither of which were shy of histrionic melodrama, but the focus is sharper here. Fish gives a cavalcade of confessionals that might seem like a case of too much information, but hey, let’s say he foresaw presciently the selfie age. He barks of lost love and idealism, the pressures of success and, ultimately acceptance, mirrored in the music’s rousing final upswing. It’s not unlike out-takes from the 70s David Essex movie Stardust come to life. Fish’s diary details – the references to Edinburgh and his own relationships, like the composite that is Kayleigh – are so intimate that, counter-intuitively, they reach Everyman status.

After the finely wrought love pangs of crossover hits Kayleigh and Lavender , Bitter Suite (in five concise sections) takes us to the heart of the self-pity. Heart Of Lothian cracks a window and lets the air in. We’re led inexorably forward to Blind Curve , the next multi-part mini-symphony. Fish may be wrestling with his demons, but Steve Rothery’s guitar and Mark Kelly’s keyboards are giving him shoulder rubs.

Prog is often criticised for lacking restraint, but this floats on exemplary taste. As the streamlined suspense reaches resolution, we’re lifted up by the double whammy of not one but two climactic anthems in Childhoods End? and White Feather . Imagine See software uiphraseguid=“13aab024-6e4c-4e29-9609-51f93d63323e”>SOFTWARE mark” ginger software uiphraseguid=“d5764509-e232-4d8d-890c-bcf8e98a384d” id=“417e21d9-6964-4b32-a748-d42f1cb77e9d”>Me Feel Me with more than one idea and a fire in its eyes.

Fish claims to have written the lyrics during a 10-hour acid trip, in which case it’s bewildering how well it all hangs together. One must credit Kimsey and the band with their careful oversight – as remastering jobs go, Steven Wilson can rarely have sat down at a cleaner desk. This four-disc/Blu-ray deluxe box set gives us the album, then two discs of a previously unreleased Utrecht live concert (including this album played in sequence), plus demos and B-sides. As ever, Wilson plays his hand perfectly, but this time he’s been dealt a royal flush.

As Fish howls of obscure poets, primordial phantoms, train drivers necking cans of lager, love songs with no validity and children drenched in napalm, his cry of ‘ I can’t take any more ’ recalls Peter Finch in the Sidney Lumet film Network , refracted through Thomas Jerome Newton.

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The group was formed (originally as “Silmarillion”) in 1979 by guitarist Steve Rothery . Fish joined on as vocalist in 1981 with keyboardist Mark Kelly and bassist Pete Trewavas joinig the following year. After releasing a three song demo which caught some attention, Marillion recorded and released their debut album, Script for a Jester’s Tear , in 1983. The album peaked in the Top 10 of the UK charts and spawned the Top 20 single, “Garden Party”. Former Steve Hackett drummer Ian Mosley joined the group in time to record their the second album, Fugazi , in 1984.

The concept for Misplaced Childhood was sparked during an “acid trip” by Fish when he hallucinated a vision of a child dressed as a soldier. He instantly wrote “a large scrawl of prose” with a mixture of autobiographical, traditional, and popular culture references. The album was recorded in the spring of 1985 in Berlin, Germany and produced by Chris Kimsey . Aside from composing the the music itself, the biggest challenge was getting the songs to flow together seamlessly from one song to the next, with some “link” sections constructed to get from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’.

The opener “Pseudo Silk Kimono” is a subtle, slow, and soft piece, fueled by long synth strings and guitar pedal effects throughout the two brief verses. “Kayleigh” is the signature song on this album and most indelible track from Marillion overall. A perfect song of reflection, which topped our list of Forgotten Rock Gems of the 1980s , the song is dripping with nostalgia and emotion lyrically while it is musically led by the great guitar riffing and fantastic lead by Rothery. Largely ignored in America, the song reached number 2 on the British charts and also ranked high in several other European countries. Most importantly, it holds up well 30 years later as a piece that represents the best elements of eighties rock.

“Childhoods End?” is a pleasant, almost poppy dance song, driven by the bouncy bass of Trewavas along with odd, funky rhythms during the verses. This is complemented by stronger, straight-forward rock choruses which work to make this track different than anything else on the album in musical vibe. The song’s title is phrased as a question which is ultimately answered in the negative at the very end of the lyrics. The closing “White Feather” is a new wave flavored, groove rap with animated drums and a uni-directional arrangement before it fades out to complete the album.

During the tour for Misplaced Childhood , Fish would often announce that there is time for only one more track before the band performed the entire album in sequence. Marillion followed up with a less successful fourth album, Clutching at Straws in 1987, before Fish left the band to pursue a solo career. He returned to the group in 2015 to launch the “Farewell to Childhood” tour, where the group plays the full LP to honor its 30 th anniversary.

Part of Classic Rock Review’s celebration of 1985 albums.

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“He [Fish] returned to the group in 2015 to launch the “Farewell to Childhood” tour, where the group plays the full LP to honor its 30th anniversary.”

Er, whomever wrote this article plainly knows little about Marillion or Fish.

Fish did not return to Marillion. The “Farewell to Childhood” tour was a solo tour with his own touring band with no appearances by any of the current members of Marillion.

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May – august 15 shows, 07.05.1985 – kayleigh (single/maxi).

• Kayleigh released by EMI
• April 1985: Announcement – Thanks to David James Wilson
• NME, 04.05.1985: Announcement – Thanks to Guy Tkach
• Sounds, 11.05.1985: Ad – Thanks to Guy Tkach
• Louder: The Story Behind The Song: Kayleigh By Marillion by Dave Ling (07.04.2014)
• Top 2000 a gogo: Kayleigh – The Story Behind The Song , told by Fish (09.01.2020)
• musicradar: The Story Of Marillion’s Kayleigh Deserves To Be Made Into A Hollywood Movie by Andy Jones (09.11.2023)

• Kayleigh video shoot in Berlin: Fish with Robert Mead

20.05.1985 – BBC Television Theatre, Shepherd’s Bush, London (Wogan)

• Kayleigh at No. 7 in the UK single charts (19.05.-25.05.1985)
• Unknown recording date, aired 20.05.1985 by BBC 1

23.05.1985 – Lime Grove Studios, London (Top Of The Pops)

• Unknown recording date, aired 23.05.1985 by BBC 1

26.05.1985 – Nürburgring, Adenau (Rock Am Ring)

• Concert Poster by Dirk Schiffler
• Ticket (signed by the band) by Angelika and Joachim Weber
• Tickets by Denis Thomas
• T-Shirt: Rock am Ring Nürburg ’85
• Pseudo Silk Kimono , Kayleigh , Lavender and Garden Party aired 03.08.1985 in German TV show RockPop In Concert (ZDF)

• Photo by unknown photographer

27.05.1985 – Festivalgelände, St. Gallen

• May 1985: Kayleigh (Lipsync) in German TV show Tele Illustrierte , aired by ZDF
• May 1985: Kayleigh (Lipsync) in Dutch TV show Countdown , hosted by Adam Curry, aired by Veronica
• Kerrang!, 30.05.1985: Man With The Child In His Eyes by Mick Wall
• Sounds, 01.06.1985: Marillion: June LP, Autumn Tour – Thanks to Guy Tkach

01.06.1985 – Messegelände, Nuremberg (Rock In Nürnberg)

• Concert Poster
• Ticket by L Brooke Sahm

• Photos by L Brooke Sahm

03.06.1985 – Salon Sibelle, Barcelona

• Concert Poster , Ticket and Review by Albert Mallofre – Thanks to Enric Pascual Poy
• Concert Poster – Thanks to Marko’s Marillion Museum
• Ticket – Thanks to Andre Rostek

04.06.1985 – Sant Joan Despí, Studio 54, Barcelona (Àngel Casas Show)

• Kayleigh at No. 4 in the UK single charts (01.06.-07.06.1985)
• Episode 1.71, unkown recording date, aired 04.06.1985 by TV 3 Catalunya

05.06.1985 – Sala Canciller, Madrid

• Concert Poster – Thanks to Marko’s Marillion Museum Ticket – Thanks to Carlos Bartolome

06.06.1985 – Sala Canciller, Madrid

• Concert Poster – Thanks to Marko’s Marillion Museum

08.06.1985 – Pavilhao Belenenses, Lisbon

• Reviews , taken from TV Guia magazine – Thanks to Jorge Blanch
• Review (including setlist), taken from Se7e – Thanks to Jorge Blanch
• Photo , taken from DN newspaper – Thanks to Jorge Blanch

• Photo by Fernando Peres Rodrigues – Thanks to Jorge Blanch

09.06.1985 – Pavilhao Infante Sagres, Oporto

• Ticket – Thanks to Denis Thomas

11.06.1985 – Le Riff, Toulouse

• Kerrang!, 13.06.1985: From A Child To A Man by Dave Dickson

13.06.1985 – Lime Grove Studios, London (Top Of The Pops)

• Kayleigh at No. 2 in the UK single charts (09.05.-15.05.1985)
• Unknown recording date, aired 13.06.1985 by BBC 1

14.06.1985 – Parc Des Expositions, Annecy

• Ticket – Thanks to Bruno Zedude

15.06.1985 – Theatre de Verdure, Nice

• Promo-Poster: EMI/Pathé Marconi

17.06.1985 – Misplaced Childhood (Studio Album)

• Kerrang!, 13.06.1985: Ad
• Misplaced Childhood released by EMI
• Unknown newspaper, June 1985: Supper’s Ready ( Misplaced Childhood launch party)
• Revista Bizz, June 1985: Review by J.E.R. – Thanks to Daniel Queiroz
• The Capital Times, June 1985: Marillion’s New LP Won’t be Misplaced by John Kovalic – Thanks to Raph Copeland
• Musikexpress, June 1985: Ad (Misplaced Childhood) with German November tour dates
• Report, June 1985: Fish’s Misplaced Childhood by Debbi Voller
• Promo-Poster: Misplaced Childhood (Capitol Records, USA)

17.06.1985 – Rolling Stone, Milan

• Fish (on stage) and Steve And Fish (backstage) by Ezio Candrini

18.06.1985 – Arena Puccini, Bologna

• Marillion during soundcheck by Ezio Candrini
• Setlist by Luca Benporath
• 60 min. of this show broadcasted in Italian TV show Videomusic In Concert (Videomusic)

21.06.1985 – WDR TV Studio, Cologne (WWF Club)

• Kayleigh at No. 2 in the UK single charts (15.06.-22.06.1985)
• Unkown recording date, aired 21.06.1985 by Westdeutschen Werbefernsehens (WWF)
• Report: Wer Ist Der Fish Von Marillion? (Biggi, June 1985) with photos from this performance
• Sounds, 29.06.1985: Water Babies (report) by Hugh Fielder – Thanks to Guy Tkach
• Sounds, 13.07.1985: Marillion Guest With ZZ Top – Thanks to Guy Tkach

06.08.1985 – Ramat Gan Stadium, Tel Aviv (85 Star Festival)

Marillion flew from England to Israel, landed the day before [the festival] and stayed at the Carlton Hotel, opposite the beach in Tel Aviv. They promised to play Kayleigh , their big hit. Fish was interviewed by Maariv and said, “We are done with make-up. Long-term dangerous make-up. You need to know when to remove it. In the end, it is music that sells records.” According to Yossi Khersonsky, Marillion’s album M isplaced Childhood reached the top 10 bestsellers in Israel at the time.

Marillion’s performance was artistically successful: according to Eli Sagi, who was present at the event, the band played the entire Misplaced Childhood as well as songs from previous albums .

But the Star Festival , which promised to bring 200 musicians to a 7-hour event, suffered from very low ticket sales. The Israeli audience simply did not believe in the grandiose promises of the amateur production.

Three days and 14 performances were planned for the event, but in the end 5 performances were cancelled, including Joe Cocker. Therefore, the festival was shortened to one long and arduous evening, hosted by Shosh Atari, Dori Ben-Ze’ev and Eli Israel. The festival began at 5pm and featured the band of Billy Cubham, Peter Green, Al Di Meola (in a solo performance on acoustic guitar), David Knopfler (Mark Knopfler’s brother), Climax Blues Band , followed by Marillion. The event ended at midnight, with Alvin Lee performing. Also in attendance was British singer Sally Oldfield (Mike Oldfield’s sister), who performed early in the evening with folk rock songs and didn’t get any good reactions from the bored audience.

The Israeli production expected 50,000 ticket buyers. Each ticket cost 15,000 old shekels. In the end, a maximum of about 12,000 Israeli arrived. The production was stuck with huge debts, and the unfortunate promoter Gabi Neubauer fled the country with estimated debts of about half a million old shekels. Most of the bands and artists did not receive any money at all and angrily left Israel, including Marillion.

This is how singer Fish described his first and last Israeli experience on his official website: "A ridiculous festival in Tel Aviv at the football stadium that was planned for three days and closed after one day because there were more people behind the stage than in front. Most of the bands on the list did not even bother to fly to Israel. We did fly and spend four days with chronic diarrhoea at the King David Beach Hotel!"

Ticket – Thanks to Kieran Folan Marillion in Israel 1985 (original report in Hebrew) Thanks to Stephan Brüninghoff for research and Susan Krohn H for translation from Hebrew

17.08.1985 – Donington Park, Donington

• Ad – Thanks to Guy Tkach
• Ad – Thanks to Denis Thomas
• Kerrang!, July 1985: Announcement
• Backstage Pass
• Photos by Stuart James – Thanks to Andre Rostek and Denis Thomas
• Setlist-correction by Jean-Manuel Esnault
• Sounds, 24.08.1985: Review – Thanks to Guy Tkach
• "I’d forgotten this one. All I really remember is Magnum being really good, Metallica being rubbish and ZZ Top flying the car in under a helicopter. I can’t remember the Marillion set." (Dave Pashby)

• Photos by Stuart James

• Sounds, 24.08.1985: Announcement of UK December dates – Thanks to Guy Tkach

27.08.1985 – Lavender (Single/Maxi)

• Lavender released by EMI

Misplaced Childhood – UK Tour 1985 (aborted)

September 4 shows.

• Music Week, September 1985: Gold And Silver Awards – Thanks to Simon Hanhart and Marko’s Marillion Museum
• Concert Poster: Misplaced Childhood Tour 1985
• Concert Poster: Misplaced Childhood – UK Tour 1985 (aborted)
• Backstage Passes: Misplaced Childhood Tour – 1985 (AAA) – Thanks to Jacek Bejer
• T-Shirt: Misplaced Childhood – 1985-1986
• 21 shows of this tour were cancelled and rescheduled to January 1986

04.09.1985 – SFX Centre, Dublin

• Ticket – Thanks to Colin Dean

05.09.1985 – SFX Centre, Dublin

• Setlist by Peter Goodfield and Mark Abbott

06.09.1985 – Maysfield Leisure Centre, Belfast

• Ticket (signed by Pete Trewavas and Fish)
• Fish’s voice problems started
• Setlist incomplete!

09.09.1985 – Spectrum Arena, Warrington (cancelled show) (canc.)

• This show was rescheduled to 18.01.1986

10.09.1985 – The Marquee Club, London (Misplaced Marquee)

• Concert Poster with autographs – Thanks to Keith West
• Flyer – Thanks to Mark Warburton
• T-Shirt: Misplaced Marquee – Tues. 10 Sept. 1985
• The audience sings most of the songs due to Fish’s broken voice

12.09.1985 – Lime Grove Studios, London (Top Of The Pops)

• Fish’s famous miming with flip chart paper 🙂
• Lavender at No. 13 in the UK single charts (08.09.-14.095.1985)
• Unknown recording date, aired 12.09.1985 by BBC 1
• Sounds, 11.09.1985: Ad (Hammersmith Odeon, London) – Thanks to Guy Tkach
• Sounds, 21.09.1985: Marillion Tour Croaked – Thanks to Guy Tkach
• Sounds, 21.09.1985: The Lavender Hill Mob by Sandy Robertson – Thanks to Guy Tkach
• Sounds, 28.09.1985: Rescheduled UK Tour Dates – Thanks to Guy Tkach
• Tickets from cancelled September/October shows:
• 11.09.1985 – Hammersmith Odeon, London
• 13.09.1985 – Hammersmith Odeon, London
• 15.09.1985 – St. David’s Hall, Cardiff
• 16.09.1985 – St. David’s Hall, Cardiff
• 17.09.1985 – Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham
• 19.09.1985 – City Hall, Sheffield
• 20.09.1985 – City Hall, Newcastle
• 21.09.1985 – The Playhouse Theatre, Edinburgh
• 22.09.1985 – Capitol Theatre, Aberdeen
• 24.09.1985 – Apollo Theatre, Manchester
• 25.09.1985 – Apollo Theatre, Manchester
• 26.09.1985 – Odeon Theatre, Birmingham
• 27.09.1985 – Odeon Theatre, Birmingham
• 29.09.1985 – De Montfort Hall, Leicester
• 30.09.1985 – Colston Hall, Bristol
• 04.10.1985 – Hammersmith Odeon, London
• 05.10.1985 – Hammersmith Odeon, London

Misplaced Childhood – Europe Tour 1985

October – november 38 shows.

• Advertising Poster: Misplaced Childhood from French magazine Best – Thanks to gsdy
• Fish (during Script For A Jester’s Tear ) – Misplaced Childhood Tour 1985
• Fish (backstage) – Misplaced Childhood Tour 1985

07.10.1985 – KU, Lippstadt (Rock Pop Music Hall)

• Marillion miming the complete side 1 of Misplaced Childhood
• Recorded 07.10.1985, aired 02.11.1985 by German TV channel ZDF

09.10.1985 – Asker Hall, Oslo

• Setlist provided by René Romswinckel

11.10.1985 – Eriksdalshallen, Stockholm

• Ad, Ticket and Photos – Thanks to Per Eriksen

12.10.1985 – Frolundaborg Isshall, Gothenburg

• Ad – Thanks to Patrik Lindström
• Ad – Thanks to Stefan Polzer
• Ticket – Thanks to Stefan Frisk
• Ticket – Thanks to Tomas Forsell
• Setlist by Jean-Luc Camus

13.10.1985 – Falkoner Theatre, Copenhagen

• Ticket – Thanks to Claus Nygaard
• Ticket – Thanks to Oliver Buch
• Setlist by Paul Cavender

15.10.1985 – Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht

• Backstage Pass – Thanks to Jacek Bejer
• Support Band: Pendragon
• No. 05 was recorded for the B-side of Heart Of Lothian
• The complete concert was released on Misplaced Childhood (Deluxe Edition)

16.10.1985 – Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht

19.10.1985 – Hall-18 Beaulieu, Lausanne

• Concert Poster – Thanks to Denis Thomas

20.10.1985 – Eulachhalle, Winterthur

22.10.1985 – teatro tenda 7up, rome.

• Ticket – Thanks to Bert ter Steege

23.10.1985 – Palasport Scandicci, Florence

• Fish (on stage) – Photo by Fabio Nahemah Della Croce
• Ticket , Report and Review by Giovanni Medioli – Thanks to Andrea Bonanni

24.10.1985 – Teatro Tenda Lampugnano, Milan

• Ticket – Thanks to Luca Benporath

26.10.1985 – Maison Des Sports, Clermont-Ferrand

• Ad – Thanks to Alain Laurent

27.10.1985 – Gymnase Du Port Marchand, Toulon

• Ticket (unused)
• This show was rescheduled from 25.10.1985

29.10.1985 – Bourse Du Travail, Lyon

• This show was rescheduled from 18.10.1985

30.10.1985 – Hall Tivoli, Strasbourg

• Concert Poster and Ticket – Thanks to Denis Thomas
• Photos in The Web – Issue No. 18

31.10.1985 – Parc Exposition, Nancy

01.11.1985 – vorst nationaal, brussels.

• Concert Poster – Thanks to Andy Lowell

• Photo by Nanda Boger

• Concert Posters: Misplaced Childhood – Germany Tour 1985 – Thanks to Denis Thomas and Thomas Spitzer

• Photo taken from Hörzu (German TV magazine)

??.11.1985 – EMI, Cologne

04.11.1985 – Biskuithalle, Bonn

• Mark Kelly’s AAA Backstage Pass – Thanks to Marko’s Marillion Museum

05.11.1985 – Eissporthalle, Frankfurt

• The show was rescheduled from Stadthalle Offenbach to Eissporthalle Frankurt due to huge demand
• Concert Poster (Offenbach)
• Concert Poster (Frankfurt)
• Ticket (Offenbach)
• Ticket (Frankfurt)
• Short parts of the concert aired 17.12.1985 in German TV show Schüler-Express (ZDF)

07.11.1985 – Exo 7, Rouen

08.11.1985 – le zenith, paris.

• Ticket (front and rear) – Thanks to gsdy
• Recorded and broadcasted by french radio
• "A relic from the past I’m keeping since nearly 22 years: my Ticket for the concert in Le Zenith, Paris 1985!
• I remember everything: I was 20 years old, an absolute fan of the group (I still have my picture-discs: Assassing , Punch And Judy and the He Knows -single). I went by train to Paris with my girlfriend for the concert – she is now my wife." (Lionel Cador)

09.11.1985 – Parc Des Expositions, Mulhouse

11.11.1985 – Schleyer-Halle, Stuttgart

• The show was rescheduled from Liederhalle to (Hanns-Martin-)Schleyer-Halle due to huge demand
• Concert Poster (Liederhalle)
• Concert Poster (Schleyer-Halle)
• Ticket (Liederhalle) – Thanks to Andre Rostek
• Ticket (Schleyer-Halle) – Thanks to Denis Thomas

12.11.1985 – Gartenhalle, Karlsruhe

13.11.1985 – friedrich-ebert-halle, ludwigshafen.

• Ticket – Thanks to Uwe Handwerker

14.11.1985 – Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle, Munich

• Concert Poster (Circus Krone)
• Concert Poster (Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle)
• Ticket (Circus Krone)
• Ticket (Rudi-Sedlmayer-Halle) – Thanks to Denis Thomas
• Setlist by Martin Wunsch

16.11.1985 – Philipshalle, Düsseldorf

• Ticket – Thanks to Dirk Welzel

17.11.1985 – Audimax (Großer Saal), Hamburg

18.11.1985 – heart of lothian (single/maxi).

• Heart Of Lothian released by EMI
• Sounds, 23.11.1985: Ad – Thanks to Guy Tkach
• Sounds, 23.11.1985: Review – Thanks to Guy Tkach
• Heart Of Lothian (Lipsync)
• Unknown (recording/broadcasting) date and TV show

18.11.1985 – Eissporthalle, Berlin

• Crew Pass – Thanks to Andre Rostek

19.11.1985 – Stadthalle 2, Bremen

21.11.1985 – stadthalle, osnabrück.

• Ticket – Thanks to Wolfgang Meeske

22.11.1985 – Stadthalle, Kassel

• Ticket (Eissporthalle) – Thanks to JesterKatty70
• Ticket (Eissporthalle)

23.11.1985 – Stadionsporthalle, Hannover

• Ticket and Review by Andre Kreutzmann

25.11.1985 – Eurogress, Aachen

• Ticket – Thanks to Philip Fallis

26.11.1985 – Sporthalle, Völklingen

27.11.1985 – rheingoldhalle, mainz, 28.11.1985 – stadthalle, fürth.

• Press Tickets – Thanks to Gary Cumberland
• Crew Pass – Photo taken from Andre Rostek’s book A Collector’s Guide To Marillion And Fish (2002)

Misplaced Childhood – Japan Tour

December 5 shows, 03.12.1985 – kosei nenkin hall, osaka, 04.12.1985 – unryo hall, nagoya, 05.12.1985 – unryo hall, nagoya, 06.12.1985 – nihon seinen-kan, tokyo.

• Concert Poster – Thanks to Andre Rostek

07.12.1985 – Nihon Seinen-Kan, Tokyo

Misplaced childhood – uk tour 1985, december 8 shows, 10.12.1985 – the marquee club, london (whistle test).

• Backstage Pass (Guest) – Thanks to Jacek Bejer
• Review by Carol Clarke
• No. 05-06 aired live 10.12.1985 in Whistle Test (BBC 2, Episode #16.11), presented by David Hepworth

13.12.1985 – Brixton Academy Theatre, London

• Ads – Thanks to Guy Tkach
• Support Band: Beltane Fire
• Sounds, 04.01.1986: Review by Neil Perry – Thanks to Guy Tkach
• "Support band were Rockabillies called Beltane Fire . On entry, they gave everyone a free Flexi Disc which most of the audience then flung back at them when they played! Fish had razors thrown at him because he had grown a beard." (Chris Dye)

14.12.1985 – Cornwall Coliseum, St. Austell

• Setlist by Nick Lee

15.12.1985 – Conference Centre, Brighton

• Ad (UK December tour dates) – Thanks to Guy Tkach
• Tickets – Thanks to Denis Thomas

17.12.1985 – Scottish Exhibition Centre, Glasgow

• Ticket – Thanks to Pete Forster

• Photo by Jim Mclean

18.12.1985 – Opera House, Blackpool

• Ticket – Thanks to Denis Quinlan

19.12.1985 – National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham

• Ticket – Thanks to Mark Anderson
• Ticket – Thanks to Nigel Todhunter
• Kerrang!, 23.01.1986: Review by Mick Wall
• "For enjoyment value, this gig was the best one I had been to yet, and remained the best until I saw Genesis at Earls Court a few years later. Fish was explaining something to the audience at one point, and Mark crept up on him and sprayed squirt string all over his face. Fish shouted "Bastard" and chased him halfway round the stage. It was near Christmas, everyone was having fun. During the encore I remember myself and my friend moving down to the front and dancing, jumping, shouting… you name it, it was great! The last time I saw them with Fish." (Mark Anderson)

• Photo taken from The Web – Issue No. 19

20.12.1985 – Gaumont, Southampton

Tour programme, misplaced childhood – germany 1985.

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‘Misplaced Childhood’: Behind The Album That Saw Marillion Come Of Age

Majestic and dream-like, Marillion's 1985 album, ‘Misplaced Childhood’, brought the neo-prog quintet success beyond their wildest dreams.

Long considered to be a captivating and kaleidoscopic masterpiece, Marillion’s third album, Misplaced Childhood , was a towering achievement that turned the band into the biggest prog-rock act of the 80s. Entrancing listeners with a tale of lost love and a disillusioned soul bathing in the fading glow of childhood memories, it saw singer-songwriter Fish pair his delirious stream-of-consciousness lyricism with Steve Rothery’s spellbinding guitar riffs to produce the group’s most vivid and evocative work to date.

Listen to ‘Misplaced Childhood’ here .

After cooking up the concept behind Misplaced Childhood during a ten-hour acid trip, Fish and the rest of the band relocated to Hansa Tonstudio, in West Berlin, in late 1984, to record the album with Rolling Stones producer Chris Kimsey. Though the sessions were undeniably productive, it’s a miracle the group made it out alive, with Fish’s wayward antics leading him on one occasion to strip off his clothes in Hitler’s favourite restaurant, and to throw bricks over the Berlin Wall in the hope of setting off landmines. Little did he realise that the resulting album would be just as explosive.

“The Wogan show lit the touchpaper on the whole thing”

Described by Fish as “a way of saying sorry” to an old flame called Kay, the album’s incendiary lead single, Kayleigh, was released in April 1985, a mesmerising hit-in-waiting full of Mark Kelly’s sizzling 80s synths and Steve Rothery’s blazing guitar arpeggios. After performing the song on Terry Wogan’s BBC One talk show, Wogan , in May 1985, Kayleigh set fire to the charts and asserted itself as one of the best Marillion songs . “The Wogan show was what did it,” Fish later said. “That lit the touchpaper on the whole thing.”

Following the Wogan performance, Fish broke into a smile that prompted Malcolm Hill, former Head Of Promotions at EMI, to declare that the singer had just “broke every mother’s heart in Great Britain”. Peaking at No.2 in the UK, and denting the US charts, Kayleigh instantly became one of 1985’s biggest hits, sending public interest into fever pitch over the impending release of its parent album.

Released on 17 June 1985, Misplaced Childhood went to No.1 in the UK and sold 100,000 copies in just one month. From its LSD-inspired opener, Pseudo Silk Kimono, to the strutting call-to-arms of White Feather, the album was a rousing prog-rock opus that meditated on the ruination of juvenile innocence and the pitfalls of adulthood. As Fish muses about ill-fated romance on the nearly eight-minute-long Bitter Suite, or recounts his alcohol-sodden adolescence on Waterhole (Expresso Bongo), there’s little doubt that Misplaced Childhood found Marillion’s neo-prog ambition reaching its peak.

“The subject matter was personal yet everyone could relate to it”

Keen to keep their commercial momentum going, Marillion released Lavender as the album’s second single, in August 1985. Starting out as a lilting piano ballad inspired by Joni Mitchell ’s experimental masterpiece The Hissing Of Summer Lawns , it soon blossoms into a soft-rock torch song with roots in the 19th-century nursery rhyme Lavender’s Blue. Entering the UK chart at No.5, Lavender grew out of the childhood themes dreamt up by Fish, who explores “the little boy’s dream” of walking through the park and bumping “into the lady of your dreams that you’re going to fall instantaneously in love with”.

Given its hallucinogenic origins, Lavender was a perfectly-formed psychedelic pop single that meshed naturally with the album’s all-encompassing prog-rock scope, sandwiched as it was between the blissful balladeering of Kayleigh and the swirling synth majesty of Bitter Suite. With Misplaced Childhood best seen as one long composition, its second half ventures beyond the lavender fields and into the uncharted terrain of adult life.

Having already hinted that he was growing tired of life on the road, Fish expresses his cynicism with the touring treadmill on the delightfully busy-fingered rocker Lords Of The Backstage. Immediately thereafter, the melancholic nine-minute odyssey of Blind Curve sees the singer reflect on the death of a friend in a car accident, set to one of Steve Rothery’s greatest guitar solos. However, by the album’s penultimate song, Childhood’s End?, his tone turns to optimism as he realises his “misplaced childhood” is alive and well, finally ready to be rejuvenated in the wind on White Feather. By that point, of course, Marillion themselves have taken flight.

“It was obvious that the band had gone up in musicianship”

The final single to be released from Misplaced Childhood was Heart Of Lothian, a song that saw Fish reflect upon his Scottish upbringing with a tribute to the city of Edinburgh. Though not as commercially successful as their previous hits, it still peaked at No.29 in the UK following its release, in November 1985, thanks to Fish’s poetic descriptions of “wide boys” on the Royal Mile and tower blocks looming like “stalagmites of culture shock”. With all the force of a literary giant, Heart Of Lothian stomped its way into everyone’s affections.

Part of what made Misplaced Childhood so era-defining was its artwork, created by Marillion’s long-time collaborator Mark Wilkinson, who had also designed the covers for their previous albums, Script For A Jester’s Tear and Fugazi . “It was obvious to everyone that the band had gone up a fair few notches in musicianship,” Wilkinson said. “The subject matter was at once personal yet everyone could relate to parts of it because we all remember our childhood.” Having asked the son of Wilkinson’s next-door neighbour to pose for the cover, which pictures the boy in a red military jacket and surrounded by storm clouds, the band then had him star in the promo video for Kayleigh, making him forever synonymous with the album’s success.

By the end of 1985 – a year which also saw them play Live Aid – Marillion had become one of the world’s biggest rock groups, successfully revitalising the prog-rock genre by embracing synths and a radio-friendly pop nous. Eventually selling over 815,000 copies, Misplaced Childhood is by far and away one of the best Marillion albums, and the band’s greatest achievement during their imperial phase. A stupendous work of child-like wonder, it has grown into a prog-rock classic that truly belongs in the annals of British rock history.

Find our which ‘Misplaced Childhood’ tracks made our list of the best Marillion songs .

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Marillion’s Misplaced Childhood deluxe edition gets limited repress

By Paul Sinclair

Final chance to acquire this superb set a ‘normal’ price

The superb, previously out-of-print , 4CD+blu-ray deluxe edition of Marillion ‘s Misplaced Childhood  is now available again in limited quantities! This set features a 2017 remaster of the original album, a lossless 5.1 remix of the album created by producer, musician and surround maestro Steven Wilson,  a concert from Holland across two CDs (including  Misplaced Childhood performed in its entirety) and a disc of demos and rarities “remastered exclusively for this set”.

On top of all this great content, the blu-ray delivers an hour-long documentary about the album and promo videos for the singles Lavender , Kayleigh , Lady Nina (which was the A-side to US EP  Brief Encounter)  and Heart Of Lothian .

The entire five-disc deluxe edition is presented in a case-bound ‘bookset’ that includes a 60-page booklet with sleeve notes written by Dave Everley.

There are only 2000 0f these available for the whole of Europe, so don’t miss out this time around and place an order with the SDE shop using this link or the button below. Read the SDE interview with Steven Wilson about his 5.1 mix of Misplaced Childhood .

Stock is available shortly so these will ship next week.

Misplaced Childhood / 5-disc box set

CD1 MISPLACED CHILDHOOD (2017 REMASTER)

• Pseudo Silk Kimono
• Bitter Suite
• Heart Of Lothian
• Waterhole (Expresso Bongo)
• Lords Of The Backstage
• Blind Curve
• Childhoods End?
• White Feather

CD2 LIVE AT UTRECHT 1985

• Emerald Lies (intro)
• Script For A Jester’s Tear
• Chelsea Monday

CD3 LIVE AT UTRECHT 1985 (MISPLACED CHILDHOOD)

• Garden Party
• Market Square Heroes

CD4 DEMOS & B-SIDES (2017 REMASTER)

• Kayleigh (Alternative Mix)
• Lavender Blue
• Lady Nina (Steven Wilson Stereo Remix)
• Pseudo Silk Kimono (Demo)
• Kayleigh (Demo)
• Lavender (Demo)
• Bitter Suite: Brief Encounter/Lost Weekend (Demo)
• Lords Of The Backstage (Demo)
• Blue Angel (Demo)
• Misplaced Rendezvous (Demo)
• Heart Of Lothian: Wide Boy/Curtain Call (Demo)
• Waterhole (Expresso Bongo) (Demo)
• Passing Strangers: Mylo/Perimeter Walk/Threshold (Demo)
• Childhood’s End? (Demo)
• White Feather (Demo)
• Childhood Memories (Documentary 72 mins)
• Misplaced Childhood – Steven Wilson 5.1 Surround Mix
• Lady Nina – Steven Wilson 5.1 Surround Mix
• Lady Nina – Steven Wilson Stereo Remix
• Misplaced Childhood – 96/24 Stereo Remaster
• Kayleigh (Promo Video)
• Lavender (Promo Video)
• Heart of Lothian (Promo Video)
• Lady Nina (Promo Video)

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