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...
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follow-up album, 1987's Clutching at Straws, included another UK Top 10 single "Incommunicado" (No. 6). Clutching at Straws was the band's last studio...
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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...
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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...
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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"...
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Fish (singer) (category People educated at Dalkeith High School)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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deluxe reissue campaign that also includes Misplaced Childhood, Clutching at Straws, Brave, and Afraid of Sunlight. Fugazi is the last album put out...
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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...
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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...
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produced Marillion's 1985 album Misplaced Childhood and its follow-up, Clutching at Straws, and is credited as having contributed backing vocals to "Incommunicado"...
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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...
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(from Misplaced Childhood, 1985), "Incommunicado" and "Sugar Mice" (Clutching at Straws, 1987). Another track ("Institution Waltz") is a new version of a...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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"Evergreen" were written during the Holidays in Eden (1991) and Clutching at Straws (1987) sessions, respectively. The resulting album was called Carnival...
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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...
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13th Star material, the tour celebrated the 20th anniversary of Clutching at Straws (Fish's last album with Marillion), and so most of the set list was...
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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...
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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)...
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Mick (2000). "Clutching at Straws". Glen Huntly, Vic: K Glass, National Library of Australia. Retrieved 5 November 2012. "'Only One Moon' at APRA search...
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2022, An Hour Before It's Dark entered at number two, their highest chart position since Clutching at Straws in 1987. All lyrics are written by Steve...
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