![]() ![]() As H himself wrote in a memo to The Web fanclub in the Spring 1989 issue, "After such a long wait for the next Marillion album you deserve something special." - Easter really is something special. Right from the get-go, he'd make his mark on the band in an incredible way. Anyways, Easter is as brilliant as Hogarth-era Marillion gets with its soaring guitar riffs, pleasant and powerful vocal and marvellous instrumentation. Moreover, both This Town and Dry Land, two staples of the Holidays In Eden record have come from that much under-appreciated followup effort with Colin Woore. Others included Cover My Eyes (Pain And Heaven) which had originally been on How We Live's Dry Land album that I've discussed before in a track entitled Simon's Car. Over the course of the first three Hogarth-era albums, Seasons End, Holidays In Eden and the fantastic Brave, Hogarth-penned compositions from years gone by would be demoed and reworked for the rest of the band, the most famous of which is Easter. This mixture of Fish and Steve Hogarth is nicely contrasted by the now fan-favourite Easter, a track which Ian Mosley recalled as the first thing of Hogarth's that the band took on to record. However, following the horrible events of Tiananmen Square that year, the lyrics were rewritten and made it onto Seasons End. John Helmer's original lyric concerned poverty in Britain and events over history through the yes of a 'wanderer'. The story goes that the song had been demoed at H's audition in Pete Trewavas' garage with Hogarth adding his own lyrics to the band's already-composed backing. There's elements even of Hogarth's former band How We Live creeping in, but instead of being backed by just Colin Woore, it's the whole of Marillion that help to bring Hogarth's lyrics alive. It sticks with the traditional brooding atmosphere that had come to characterise the Fish-era albums from 1982 onwards but soon transitions into the lighter sound that Hogarth's tenure has been marked by for the last thirty years. ![]() As introductions to a new incarnation of a much-loved band go, there's little better than The King Of Sunset Town. For instance, The King Of Sunset Town that opens this album borrows some of its melody from the Fish-era demo Sunset Hill but its lyrics are all penned by both Steve Hogarth and John Helmer, who the band had roped in to help fill the Fish-shaped hole that had been opened in 1988.
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