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Podcast: Comics In Motion
Episode: Mandatory Music and CD-Misplaced Childhood by Marillion
Description: Misplaced Childhood Review
by John Franck
After the album-tour-album cycle of Script for a Jester's Tear, Fugazi, and the subsequent Euro-only release of Real to Reel, Marillion retreated to Berlin's Hansa Ton Studios with Rolling Stones producer Chris Kimsey to work on their next opus. Armed with a handful of lyrics born out of a self-confessed acid trip, Fish
came up with the elaborate concept for 1985's Misplaced Childhood.
Touching upon his early childhood experiences and his inability to deal
with a slew of bad breakups exacerbated by a never-ending series of rock
star-type "indulgences,"...