Does Anyone Here Remember Marrilion...... (page 2)

LeeT

This is my first post, so hello all.

Oh yes, I remember Marillion. It was a Marillion track which lead to the first of my stepfather's vinyl purges.

Firstly a little background. Aged 12 or so my Mum and Stepfather converted to 'The Truth', and forced me to home study and dragged me to Kingdom Hall until I was 18. I was never taken in and still find it odd that these two otherwise normal and reasonably intelligent people could have been so incredulous. 30 years later they are still in, and as you can see, I'm still out.

Anyway, back to the point. In 1984 or so I left a Marillion record lying about. I don't remember which but it contained the track 'Lady Nina'. For those not familiar with it (to the best of my recollection) the song is about a man feeling empty and dirty following a vist to a prostitute.

I was informed that this was not suitable material to be in the house despite the fact that prostitution was portrayed in a negative light. They asked which shop I'd bought it from as they were going to return it (I was unwilling to return it myself). I pointed out that doing so may lead to somebody else obtaining my copy and that they wouldn't want to be seen to be facilitating the distribution of 'unhealthy' material. They saw my point and decided to burn it instead.

The following day a few hours was set aside for scrutinising the rest of my collection for other undesirable material. Out went about 50 or 60 albums to go on the pyre. I managed to hang onto about half my collection somehow.

Some memorable losses were:-

Black Sabbath (obviously),
Jimi Hendrix (he glorified drugs and I'm not sure if my stepfather thought All Alomg The Watchtower was an attack on their religion),
Alex Harvey's 'Next' album (contains a song about a military brothel),
The Eagles 'Hotel California' album (he'd heard somewhere that they were a band of Satanists).

To be fair to my stepfather he then went on to do the same to his own collection, torchimg most of his jazz collection as they all took drugs in the 50's and 60's.

I remember buying my next Marillion album on tape as it was easier to hide. This was how I bought any questionable material from then on. Subsequent purges weren't as fruitful.

Oh yes, I remember Marillion and what they started.

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Does Anyone Here Remember Marrilion......

LeeT

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