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The Invisible Man by Marillion
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Marillion Are A Rock Band Formed In Aylesbury England . Their 30-Year Career Is Marked By Two Distinctive Phases The Early Years Fronted By Fish Which Saw Their Greatest Commercial Success And Much Longer Period Fronted By Steve Hogarth In Which The Band Have Constantly Re-Invented Themselves So As To Continue To Be Relevant Into The 21st Century. The Fish Era Is Often Categorized As Neo-Progressive. They Originally Started As "Silmarillion" From Tolkien's Book With Heavy Influences From Classic Genesis But Went On To Develop Their Own Distinctive Sound. The Band Was Formed In 1979 By Mick Pointer Drums Steve Rothery Guitar Doug 'Rastus' Irvine Bass And Others Soon Adding Vocalist Fish Real Name Derek W. Dick Diz Minitt Bass And Brian Jelliman. By The Time Of Their First Album 1983's Script For A Jester's Tear The Bass Position Had Been Taken Over By Pete Trewavas And Keyboards By Mark Kelly. The Studio Albums Fugazi 1984 Misplaced Childhood 1985 And Clutching At Straws 1987 As Well As The 1984 Live Album Real To Reel All Sold Respectably And The Band Scored A Hit Single In Britain With Kayleigh In 1985. When Fish Left The Band In 1988 After Four Albums He Was Replaced By Steve Hogarth. A Former Member Of The Europeans And Some-Time Collaborator With The The And Julian Cope Hogarth Brought A New Energy To The Band. Across A Further Ten Albums Hogarth – Along With Existing Members Rothery Kelly Trewavas And Mosley – Have Reinvigorated And Constantly Redefined Marillion’s Sound. They Forged Into New Musical Territories With A Succession Of Inventive Emotional Albums Displaying Little Regard To The Vagaries Of Hit Charts Or Radio Playlists. After The Release Of 1999’s Marillion.Com The Band Freed Themselves From Record Company Pressure Once And For All By Launching Their Own Record Label The Intact Imprint. Thanks To Their Pioneering Embrace Of The Internet Through Their Website Http //marillion.Com Marillion Have Developed A Unique And Intimate Relationship With Their Fans. From Sponsoring Entire Tours Of The USA To Funding The Recording Of Recent Albums Marillion’s Global Fan-Base Is Unique In Its Affection And Dedication. As A Result Such Passionate Wholesale Support Has Allowed Marillion To Step Outside Of The Conventional Music Industry And Find Their Own Path. In 2001 Anoraknophobia Saw Marillion Take The Groundbreaking Step Of Asking Fans To Pre-Order An Album 12 Months Before Release. An Amazing 12 000 People Signed Up Helping To Finance The Recording. The Band Once Again Took Pre-Orders For The 2004 Release Marbles But This Time The Money Was Channelled Into A Campaign Fund To Promote Its Launch. The Success Of Singles Don't Hurt Yourself And You're Gone – The Latter Making It All The Way To Number 7 – Vindicated The Band's Independent Strategy. Their 2007 Album Somewhere Else Reached Number 24 In The UK Album Chart With Their Most Recent Single Thankyou Whoever You Are Hitting The UK Singles Chart At Number 15. The Band Shows No Signs Of Fading Away After More Than 25 Years Of Activity. Their 15th Album "Happiness Is The Road" Was Physically Released In October 2008 But Was Originally Available Exclusively From The Band's Website. It Was Released With Little Promotion And A Deluxe Pre-Order Package Was Made Available As With Marbles. 'Happiness Is The Road' Is The Second Studio Double Album Of A Long Career 2004's Marbles Was The Other . A UK And European Tour Followed The Album's Release And The Band Is Taking Special Effort To Record Every Show In The "Happiness On The Road" Tour Making The Recordings Available From The Band's Website.
Frogtoon Music - Song Info: The Invisible Man
Marillion - Marbles
Introduction From An Interview With The Web France In September 2004 H Said "Invisible Man Takes A Bit Of Explaining And I Don't Really Want To Explain It... Well Just Very Generally It's About Witnessing Without Being There About Being Conscious Of Other People's Lives Sometimes Intimately Conscious Without Being There And Without Being Able To Do Anything About It And About How Difficult That Is. So The Invisible Man Is A Ghost Really He Is Somebody Who Is Watching And Knowing And Must Bear The Weight And The Pain Of That And The Pain Of Being Unable To Help. 'When You Stumble/ You Will Stumble Through Me' Is The Most Important Line Of The Song And This One Line Really Sums The Song Up. The Attempt To Catch Someone As They Fall And Them Falling Through You Because You're Actually Not There. And To Some Extent We've All Become Invisible Men. "There Was A Time When We All Just Lived In Caves Where The Only Things We Were Conscious Of Where The Things That Happened To Us In The Cave Or Just Outside The Cave. And If Something Dreadful Happened To Us We Were Conscious Of It We Felt That Pain. Or If Something Dreadful Happened While We Were Out Running Around Hunting We Were Conscious Of That And Had To Deal With It... We Now Live In A World Where We Are Conscious Of All Kinds Of Horrors That Are Happening On The Other Side Of The World Because Of Mass Telecommunication Television And Television News. So Every Day We Wake Up With This Knowledge Of Some Terrible Injustice That Has Happened. And That's Totally Unnatural. We're Not Really Equipped As Human Beings To Have To Be Aware Or Feel Responsible For Something That Is Happening In Rwanda Or Sydney Australia Or Mexico City And Now We Do. And I Think That Introduces A Massive Burden On Every Person Because Try As We Might We Cannot Help But Feel A Little Bit Responsible For It. "And In Many Ways We Are Because Internationalism And Global Corporate Trading Are Now Such That Each Of Our Economies And Our Own National And To Some Extent Therefore Our Personal Wealth Is A Product Of The Fact That Perhaps Some Corporation Has Gone To Another Country And Exploited The People Either Culturally Or Financially. And We're All A Little Bit Conscious Of The Fact That Perhaps Our Own Wealth Is Coming At The Expense Of Somebody Else Somewhere In The World. So There Is This Feeling Of Shared Responsibility And Collective Guilt For Things That Really In An Ordinary World In A Primal World We Never Would Have Known About In The First Place. So In That Sense We're All Invisible Men And We All Carry That Burden Of The Knowledge Of What We Have To Witness And Can Do Nothing About." 'The Invisible Man'
The Title Comes From HG Wells' Classic Sci-Fi Tale Of The Same Name. 'Venice Vienna Budapest Krakow And Amsterdam'
Venice Is The Capital Of The Northern Italian Region Veneto. Vienna Is The Capital Of Austria Other Than That It Means Nothing To Me... Budapest Is The Capital City Of Hungary. Krakow Is The Former Capital Of Poland And Amsterdam Is The Capital City Of The Netherlands. None Of These Places Have Anything Much In Common! Marillion Have Often Toured In Amsterdam And Vienna. Venice Was Played As Far As I Can Work Out From Bill Frech's The Story So Far Website Only Once In 1991 On The Holidays Tour. Krakow Has Been Played In 2001 And 2004 - Anorak And Marbles Tours Respectively. Budapest Has Never Been Played As Far As I Know. Ana 'Arqanacarb Pointed Out That In The DVD Colours And Sound H Says That 'Budapest Krakow And Amsterdam' Are Three Places In The World He Most Considers 'obscure' Sad 'ghostly' Places. 'St Stephen's'
Martin Cito Added "Stephen Cathedral's Is In Vienna And The Mother Church Of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese Of Vienna And The Seat Of The Archbishop Of Vienna."
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Marillion Are A Rock Band Formed In Aylesbury England . Their 30-Year Career Is Marked By Two Distinctive Phases The Early Years Fronted By Fish Which Saw Their Greatest Commercial Success And Much Longer Period Fronted By Steve Hogarth In Which The Band Have Constantly Re-Invented Themselves So As To Continue To Be Relevant Into The 21st Century. The Fish Era Is Often Categorized As Neo-Progressive. They Originally Started As "Silmarillion" From Tolkien's Book With Heavy Influences From Classic Genesis But Went On To Develop Their Own Distinctive Sound. The Band Was Formed In 1979 By Mick Pointer Drums Steve Rothery Guitar Doug 'Rastus' Irvine Bass And Others Soon Adding Vocalist Fish Real Name Derek W. Dick Diz Minitt Bass And Brian Jelliman. By The Time Of Their First Album 1983's Script For A Jester's Tear The Bass Position Had Been Taken Over By Pete Trewavas And Keyboards By Mark Kelly. The Studio Albums Fugazi 1984 Misplaced Childhood 1985 And Clutching At Straws 1987 As Well As The 1984 Live Album Real To Reel All Sold Respectably And The Band Scored A Hit Single In Britain With Kayleigh In 1985. When Fish Left The Band In 1988 After Four Albums He Was Replaced By Steve Hogarth. A Former Member Of The Europeans And Some-Time Collaborator With The The And Julian Cope Hogarth Brought A New Energy To The Band. Across A Further Ten Albums Hogarth – Along With Existing Members Rothery Kelly Trewavas And Mosley – Have Reinvigorated And Constantly Redefined Marillion’s Sound. They Forged Into New Musical Territories With A Succession Of Inventive Emotional Albums Displaying Little Regard To The Vagaries Of Hit Charts Or Radio Playlists. After The Release Of 1999’s Marillion.Com The Band Freed Themselves From Record Company Pressure Once And For All By Launching Their Own Record Label The Intact Imprint. Thanks To Their Pioneering Embrace Of The Internet Through Their Website Http //marillion.Com Marillion Have Developed A Unique And Intimate Relationship With Their Fans. From Sponsoring Entire Tours Of The USA To Funding The Recording Of Recent Albums Marillion’s Global Fan-Base Is Unique In Its Affection And Dedication. As A Result Such Passionate Wholesale Support Has Allowed Marillion To Step Outside Of The Conventional Music Industry And Find Their Own Path. In 2001 Anoraknophobia Saw Marillion Take The Groundbreaking Step Of Asking Fans To Pre-Order An Album 12 Months Before Release. An Amazing 12 000 People Signed Up Helping To Finance The Recording. The Band Once Again Took Pre-Orders For The 2004 Release Marbles But This Time The Money Was Channelled Into A Campaign Fund To Promote Its Launch. The Success Of Singles Don't Hurt Yourself And You're Gone – The Latter Making It All The Way To Number 7 – Vindicated The Band's Independent Strategy. Their 2007 Album Somewhere Else Reached Number 24 In The UK Album Chart With Their Most Recent Single Thankyou Whoever You Are Hitting The UK Singles Chart At Number 15. The Band Shows No Signs Of Fading Away After More Than 25 Years Of Activity. Their 15th Album "Happiness Is The Road" Was Physically Released In October 2008 But Was Originally Available Exclusively From The Band's Website. It Was Released With Little Promotion And A Deluxe Pre-Order Package Was Made Available As With Marbles. 'Happiness Is The Road' Is The Second Studio Double Album Of A Long Career 2004's Marbles Was The Other . A UK And European Tour Followed The Album's Release And The Band Is Taking Special Effort To Record Every Show In The "Happiness On The Road" Tour Making The Recordings Available From The Band's Website.
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Introduction: From an interview with the Web France, in September 2004, h said, "Invisible Man takes a bit of explaining, and I don't really want to explain it... Well, just very generally, it's about witnessing without being there, about being conscious of other people's lives, sometimes intimately conscious, without being there and without being able to do anything about it, and about how difficult that is. So the invisible man is a ghost, really, he is somebody who is watching and knowing, and must bear the weight and the pain of that, and the pain of being unable to help. 'When you stumble/ You will stumble through me' is the most important line of the song, and this one line really sums the song up. The attempt to catch someone as they fall and them falling through you because you're actually not there. And to some extent we've all become invisible men.
"There was a time when we all just lived in caves, where the only things we were conscious of where the things that happened to us in the cave or just outside the cave. And if something dreadful happened to us, we were conscious of it, we felt that pain. Or if something dreadful happened while we were out, running around, hunting, we were conscious of that and had to deal with it... We now live in a world where we are conscious of all kinds of horrors that are happening on the other side of the world, because of mass telecommunication, television and television news. So every day we wake up with this knowledge of some terrible injustice that has happened. And that's totally unnatural. We're not really equipped as human beings to have to be aware or feel responsible for something that is happening in Rwanda or Sydney, Australia or Mexico City, and now we do. And I think that introduces a massive burden on every person, because try as we might, we cannot help but feel a little bit responsible for it.
"And in many ways we are, because internationalism and global corporate trading are now such that each of our economies and our own national, and to some extent therefore our personal wealth, is a product of the fact that perhaps some corporation has gone to another country and exploited the people, either culturally or financially. And we're all a little bit conscious of the fact that perhaps our own wealth is coming at the expense of somebody else somewhere in the world. So there is this feeling of shared responsibility and collective guilt for things that really, in an ordinary world, in a primal world, we never would have known about in the first place. So in that sense we're all invisible men and we all carry that burden of the knowledge of what we have to witness and can do nothing about."
'The Invisible Man'
The title comes from HG Wells' classic sci-fi tale of the same name.
'Venice, Vienna, Budapest, Krakow, and Amsterdam'
Venice is the capital of the northern Italian region Veneto.
Vienna is the capital of Austria (other than that, it means nothing to me...)
Budapest is the capital city of Hungary.
Krakow is the former capital of Poland, and Amsterdam is the capital city of the Netherlands.
None of these places have anything much in common! Marillion have often toured in Amsterdam and Vienna. Venice was played, as far as I can work out from Bill Frech's The Story So Far website, only once, in 1991 on the Holidays tour. Krakow has been played in 2001 and 2004 - Anorak and Marbles tours respectively. Budapest has never been played as far as I know.
Ana 'Arqanacarb pointed out that in the DVD Colours and Sound, h says that 'Budapest, Krakow and Amsterdam' are three places in the world he most considers 'obscure', sad , 'ghostly' places.
'St Stephen's'
Martin Cito added; "Stephen Cathedral's is in Vienna and the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna and the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.