Seasons end

Seasons end
Studio album by
Publication (s)	September 25, 1989
admission	April – July 1989
Label (s)	EMI Records
Format (s)	CD, LP, MC
Genre (s)	Progressive Rock , Neo-Prog
Title (number)	9
running time	50:55
occupation	Steve Hogarth - vocals Steve Rothery - guitar Mark Kelly - keyboards Pete Trewavas - bass Ian Mosley - drums Phil Todd - saxophone on Berlin Jean-Pierre Rasle - Pipes on Easter
production	Marillion, Nick Davis
Studio (s)	Outside Studio, Hook End Manor, Oxfordshire (England)
chronology Clutching at Straws (1987) Seasons end Holidays in Eden (1991)
Single releases August 29, 1989 Hooks in You November 27, 1989 The Uninvited Guest March 19, 1990 Easter

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Seasons end   UK 7th 07.10.1989 (4 weeks)

Singles

Hooks in You   UK 30th 09/09/1989 (3 weeks)   DE 71 09.10.1989 (6 weeks) The Uninvited Guest   UK 53 09.12.1989 (2 weeks) Easter   UK 34 April 14, 1990 (12 weeks)

Seasons End (English for " end of the seasons ") is the fifth studio album by the British progressive rock band Marillion . It was released in September 1989 as the first album of the Hogarth era . The LP was re-released as a 180 g vinyl pressing in February 2012.

Emergence

In August 1988 frontman Fish and Marillion broke up. The band started looking for a new singer, but was unsuccessful for the time being. John Helmer was hired as copywriter while the band continued to work on new material. Marillion had listened to around 300 application tapes and tested around 30 applicants. In January 1989, Marillion and Steve Hogarth met for an audition . Within a short time Steve Hogarth became a permanent member of the band and also began to change John Helmer's lyrics and write his own.

content

The King of Sunset Town , originally a text by John Helmer about homelessness in London, was rewritten by Steve Hogarth following the coverage of the Tian'anmen massacre . Deng Xiaoping now became "King", the title was retained. Easter is a song by Hogarth, for which he had the first ideas in early 1988. Musically inspired by the Scottish folk song "The Skye Boat Song" and with references to William Butler Yeats' poem "Easter 1916", a conciliatory song of praise for Ireland was created. The Uninvited Guest , the lyrics are by Helmer, is ostensibly a song about people you don't like to be around, but the “uninvited guest” could also be HIV . A lament about global warming and the loss of cold English winters is Seasons End , the theme song. Holloway Prison is a women's prison in London. The song Holloway Girl is about a woman who doesn't actually belong in prison, but in psychiatry. In Berlin the story of an attempt to escape from the GDR through no man's land is told.

Track list

1. The King of Sunset Town (Hogarth / Rothery / Kelly / Trewavas / Mosley / Helmer) (08:04)
2. Easter (Hogarth / Rothery / Kelly / Trewavas / Mosley) (05:58)
3. The Uninvited Guest (Hogarth / Rothery / Kelly / Trewavas / Mosley / Helmer) (03:52)
4. Seasons End (Hogarth / Rothery / Kelly / Trewavas / Mosley / Helmer) (08:10)
5. Holloway Girl (Hogarth / Rothery / Kelly / Trewavas / Mosley) (04:30)
6. Berlin (Hogarth / Rothery / Kelly / Trewavas / Mosley / Helmer) (07:48)
7. After Me (Hogarth / Rothery / Kelly / Trewavas / Mosley) (03:20) (not included on the LP)
8. Hooks In You (Hogarth / Rothery / Kelly / Trewavas / Mosley / Helmer) (02:57)
9. The Space ... (Hogarth / Rothery / Kelly / Trewavas / Mosley / Woore / Dugmore / Harper) (06:14)

Track list of the bonus CD

1. The Uninvited Guest (12 "Version) (05:05)
2. The Bell in the Sea (04:21)
3. The Release (03:45)
4. The King of Sunset Town (Demo) (05:34)
5. Holloway Girl (Demo) (04:48)
6. Seasons End (Demo) (08:02)
7. The Uninvited Guest (Demo) (03:56)
8. Berlin (demo) (08:03)
9. The Bell in the Sea (Demo) (04:52)

Single releases

The first single was released in August 1989, Hooks in You with the B-side After Me , which reached 30th place in the UK singles chart. The second single The Uninvited Guest , released in November 1989 with the B-side The Bell in the Sea , reached number 53 on the UK charts. The third single Easter with the B-side The Release was released in March 1990 and reached number 34 on the UK charts.

reception

Steve Hogarth versus Fish is the dominant theme of almost all reviews of this album, with vastly different results. progreviews.com: Marillion was a good band that Fish made great - Steve Hogarth misses the magic. progarchives.com: Unlike the early Marillion, it's still excellent. progressiveworld.net: Hogarth's soulful, heartfelt vocals, especially at Seasons End and Easter , make me love this Marillion as much as the old Marillion. BBS:… the vocals blow one away quite a bit compared to before… A successful album by a band that was clearly looking for a new style!

Web links

• Seasons End at Allmusic (English)
• Reviews of Seasons End on the baby blue pages
• Explanations of the album on marillion.baldyslaphead.co.uk

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charts DE Charts UK
2. ↑ new EMI Vinyl edition of 'Seasons End' has been cut from the original vinyl production masters. , marillion.com, accessed August 18, 2012
3. ^ Quite a few people auditioned but Steve was the only real possibility. , 2uptop.com, accessed August 17, 2012
4. ↑ Seasons End album information , marillion.com, accessed on August 16, 2012
5. ↑ When we heard the tape sent in by Steve, we felt his voice was perfect ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , innerviews.org, accessed August 16, 2012 
6. ↑ I rewrote the lyrics later in the year after the Tiananmen Square murders on the 4th of June. ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , marillion.baldyslaphead.co.uk, accessed August 16, 2012 
7. ^ I was thinking of the 'The Skye Boat Song' and I wanted Easter to be like that, but like an anthem for Ireland. ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , marillion.baldyslaphead.co.uk, accessed August 16, 2012 
8. ↑ John Helmer: When I saw the band play The Uninvited Guest at the Hammersmith Odeon, I realized that this song was more or less about an unwanted invasion (...), that was one way to write about AIDS. ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , marillion.baldyslaphead.co.uk, accessed August 16, 2012 
9. ↑ A nostalgic lament about cold English Winters and their loss to global warming. ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , marillion.baldyslaphead.co.uk, accessed August 16, 2012 
10. ↑ there were women who should have been in mental hospitals - not prison. ( Memento of the original from July 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , marillion.baldyslaphead.co.uk, accessed August 16, 2012 
11. ↑ Between checkpoints, there is usually a patch of ground over which both sides do not formally exercise their laws ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . marillion.baldyslaphead.co.uk, accessed August 16, 2012 
12. ^ Single B-sides , whitgunn.freeservers.com, accessed August 17, 2012
13. ^ For me, Marillion were a good band that Fish made great, and Steve Hogarth lacks that same magic. ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , progreviews.com, accessed August 18, 2012 
14. ↑ Yes, it's different with early Marillion but it's still excellent. , progarchives.com, accessed August 18, 2012
15. ↑ Hs emotional and heart-felt deliveries, especially on the title track and Easter are what convinced me that I was going to love this Marillion as much as I did the old Marillion. , progressiveworld.net, accessed August 18, 2012
16. ↑ A successful album by a band that was clearly looking for a new style! , babyblaue-seiten.de, accessed on August 18, 2012