Clutching at Straws is the fourth studio album by the British neo-prog band Marillion, released on June 22, 1987. It was the last album with lead singer...

follow-up album, 1987's Clutching at Straws, included another UK Top 10 single "Incommunicado" (No. 6). Clutching at Straws and its follow-up live album...

Marillion. It served as the lead single from their fourth studio album, Clutching at Straws (1987). Released on 11 May 1987, it reached number six on the UK...

extra piece of lead guitar) than the one contained on the original Clutching at Straws CD. The version of "Going Under" from the B-side of "Incommunicado"...

Childhood, 1985) – 4:24 "The Last Straw" (from Clutching at Straws, 1987) – 6:23 "Incommunicado" (from Clutching at Straws, 1987) – 6:13 "Garden Party" (from...

classical music the band used before coming on stage during the Clutching at Straws tour 1987–1988, the overture to Rossini's opera La gazza ladra, which...

of Marillion's Clutching at Straws). Fish worked as a petrol pump attendant, gardener, and from 1977 until 1980 worked in forestry at the Bowhill Estate...

Clutching at Straws "Warm Wet Circles" (Single version) from Clutching at Straws "That Time of the Night (The Short Straw)" from Clutching at Straws "Sugar...

single from their fourth studio album Clutching at Straws, released on 26 October 1987. "Warm Wet Circles" peaked at number 22 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming...

second single from their fourth studio album, Clutching at Straws (1987). Released on 13 July 1987, it peaked at number 22 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming...

deluxe reissue campaign that also includes Misplaced Childhood, Clutching at Straws, Brave, and Afraid of Sunlight. Fugazi is the last album put out...

Civil War "White Russian", a song by Marillion from their 1987 album Clutching at Straws The White Russian, a 2003 novel by Tom Bradby The White Russians...

heard in Marillion demo sessions released on the 1999 remaster of Clutching at Straws. These sessions were part of the writing process for Marillion's...

1985. Retrieved 8 September 2022 – via Library and Archives Canada. Clutching at Straws: "RPM 100 Albums". RPM. Vol. 46, no. 22. 5 September 1987. Retrieved...

reaches a climax when Chris returns to Hollyoaks village with Arlo. Clutching at straws, he eventually admits to Cleo that he is behind the kidnapping of...

produced Marillion's 1985 album Misplaced Childhood and its follow-up, Clutching at Straws, and is credited as having contributed backing vocals to "Incommunicado"...

(from Misplaced Childhood, 1985), "Incommunicado" and "Sugar Mice" (Clutching at Straws, 1987). Another track ("Institution Waltz") is a new version of a...

titled "Wrapped in the Flag". The bonus disc of the 1999 re-issue of Clutching at Straws contains a number of nascent versions of songs that would end up...

2017 on 22 April. The album peaked at #4 in the UK, marking the band's highest chart position since Clutching at Straws in 1987. All tracks are written by...

 33–76. ISBN 978-0-8153-3160-5. p. 45 "Interview: Chris Kimsey - Clutching At Straws And More". Stereonet. 13 November 2018. Retrieved 22 April 2024....

Spectator Archive". The Spectator Archive. "BBC News | UK POLITICS | Clutching at straws". BBC News. David Conway, Local Opinion, Spectator, 25 January 1997...

expose the youth of America to buttock thrusting of this type." Clutching at straws I quickly speculated to myself as to what other kinds of buttock...

Rare Bird song "Sympathy". This was also released as a single, which peaked at no. 16 in the UK Singles Chart (May 1992), making it the band's highest-charting...

took me a long time, and a lot of grief, to realize—I thought I was clutching at straws—it turned out it was actually two novels, and they couldn't go together...

in any transmitted episodes. The episodes "A Friend in Need" and "Clutching at Straws" were transmitted in their usual 9.00pm Tuesday slots on 23 & 30...

Cavanagh 2013b, p. 396. McGreal, Chris (29 January 2000). "A people clutching at straws". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved...

Robert Burns, Dylan Thomas, and Truman Capote) on the cover of 1987's Clutching at Straws by the English progressive rock group Marillion. R.E.M.'s 1987 song...

album Crash Love "Torch Song", a song by Marillion from the album Clutching at Straws "Torch Song", a song by Todd Rundgren from the album Something/Anything...

A memorial service was held for him at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London. Marillion's album Clutching at Straws (released shortly after his death in 1987)...

Produced by Nick Tauber, it was recorded between November 1983 and February 1984 at various studios and was the first to feature drummer Ian Mosley, following...