![]() Outside Marillion The Wishing TreeĪs well as work with Marillion, he started a solo project under the name The Wishing Tree (with Hannah Stobart providing vocals), and released two albums titled Carnival of Souls (1996) and Ostara (2009). Later, Silmarillion shortened its name to Marillion. From this point he concentrated more on melody, composition and mood in his playing, and less on his technique. He auditioned successfully for the band (19 August 1979). In 1979, he saw an ad in the music press for a band called Silmarillion that needed a guitarist. ![]() In an interview for Johnnie Walker's Sounds of the Seventies on BBC Radio 2 in 2013, Rothery revealed that his musical tastes always differed from his friends, who were getting into punk rock while he preferred progressive rock, which he had been introduced to through the Alan Freeman show on BBC Radio 1. He began to play the guitar at the age of 15. Rothery was born in Brampton, South Yorkshire, England, and from the age of six he lived in Whitby, North Yorkshire.
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