Brave (album)

Brave
Studio album by
Publication (s)	February 7, 1994 (album) October 16, 1998 (double CD)
admission	November 1992-August 1993
Label (s)	EMI Records
Format (s)	CD, LP
Genre (s)	Progressive rock
Title (number)	11 (album) 22 (double CD)
running time	71:08 (album) 123: 01 (double CD)
occupation	Steve Hogarth - vocals Steve Rothery - guitar Mark Kelly - keyboards Pete Trewavas - bass Ian Mosley - drums
production	Dave Meegan
Studio (s)	Chateau Marouatte, France
chronology Holidays in Eden (1991) Brave Afraid of Sunlight (1995)
Single releases January 10, 1994 The Great Escape March 21, 1994 The Hollow Man April 15, 1994 Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Brave   DE 17th 02/14/1994 (12 weeks)   CH 21st 02/20/1994 (9 weeks)   UK 10 02/19/1994 (4 weeks)

Singles

The Hollow Man   UK 30th 03/26/1994 (2 weeks) Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury   UK 53 05/07/1994 (3 weeks)

Brave (. English for " Brave ") is the seventh studio album of British progressive rock - band Marillion . It was released in February 1994 and is Marillions' third concept album. Between 1997 and 1999 EMI released the Marillion albums created under their label as a 24-bit digital remaster 2-disc version .

Emergence

Faced with some loose ideas from the band for the new album, Steve Hogarth recalled a radio report about a girl who was picked up on the Severn Bridge , seemingly disoriented . Since the girl did not speak, the authorities went public to clarify her identity. Hogarth: "I heard that and thought it would be a great first page in a mystery story." Based on this, the band developed a story about the life of this girl and moved to France to Miles Copeland's Chateau Marouatte in the Dordogne .

Track list

1. Bridge - 2:52
2. Living with the Big Lie - 6:46
3. Runaway - 4:41
4. Good bye to All That - 12:26

   I. Wave

   II. Mad

   III. The Opium Den

   IV. The Slide

   V. Standing in the swing

5. Hard as Love - 6:42
6. The Hollow Man - 4:08
7. Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury - 8:13

   I. Now Wash Your Hands

8. Paper Lies - 5:49
9. Brave - 7:54
10. The Great Escape - 6:29

    I. The Last of You

    II. Falling from the Moon

11. Made Again - 5:02

Track list of the bonus CD

1. The Great Escape (Orchestral Version) - 5:18
2. Marouatte Jam - 9:44
3. The Hollow Man (Acoustic) - 4:10
4. Winter Trees - 1:47
5. Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury (Acoustic) - 2:43
6. Runaway (Acoustic) - 4:27
7. Hard as Love (instrumental) - 6:48
8. Living with the Big Lie (demo) - 5:12
9. Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury (Demo) - 3:17
10. Dream Sequence (Demo) - 2:36
11. The Great Escape (Spiral Remake) - 5:48 (+ Hidden Track after 26 minutes of silence)

Release on vinyl

Vinyl records had been displaced more and more by the compact disc . However, these were still published in very small numbers by many artists. All Marillion albums were also released on vinyl. Aware of the fact that records were essentially only bought by enthusiasts, Marillion wanted to offer this small group something special. Contrary to the CD production, which comes to a conciliatory end with Made Again , there is another needle groove on the fourth side of the record, in which The Great Escape does not end well. Instead of made again , the only thing that follows is the splash of water from the Severn, with which the album begins. This version of The Great Escape was released as a CD single and later as a Spiral Remake on the remastering bonus CD .

Single releases

The first single was The Great Escape with the B-side Made Again in January 1994 , without reaching chart positions. The second single The Hollow Man , released in March 1994, with the B-sides Brave / The Great Escape (instrumental) / Winter Trees (instrumental) reached number 30 in the UK charts. The third single, Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury, with the B-side Living with the Big Lie , was released in April 1994 and reached number 53 on the UK charts.

filming

Richard Stanley filmed the story of the concept album. The video was released in 1995 and the DVD version was released in 2004.

Web links

• Brave at Allmusic (English)
• Reviews of Brave on the baby blue pages

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charts DE Charts CH Charts UK
2. ↑ Brave Album Information, marillion.com, accessed June 13, 2012
3. ↑ EMI track listing  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , emimusic.de, accessed on June 13, 2012  
4. ^ Single B-sides , whitgunn.freeservers.com, accessed June 13, 2012
5. ^ Brave - The Film , babyblaue-seiten.de, accessed on June 13, 2012