Steven Rothery (born 25 November 1959) is an English musician who is the original guitarist and the longest‑serving member of the progressive rock band Marillion. Outside Marillion, Rothery has recorded two albums as part of the duo The Wishing Tree and released an instrumental solo album, The Ghosts of Pripyat, in September 2014. He also founded the British Guitar Academy in 2011. Rothery was born in Brampton Bierlow, near Barnsley, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and from the age of six he lived in Whitby, North Yorkshire. He began playing guitar at the age of 15. In an interview for Johnnie Walker’s Sounds of the Seventies on BBC Radio 2 in 2013, Rothery explained that his musical tastes differed from those of his friends: while they were getting into punk rock, he preferred progressive rock, which he had discovered through Alan Freeman’s show on BBC Radio 1. In 1979 he saw an advertisement in the music press from a band called Silmarillion looking for a guitarist. He auditioned successfully on 19 August 1979. The band later shortened its name to Marillion. Alongside his work with Marillion, Rothery launched a separate project under the name The Wishing Tree, featuring Hannah Stobart on vocals. The duo released two albums: Carnival of Souls (1996) and Ostara (2009).
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Grendel
Garganta Del Diablo
Morpheus
Kendris
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Old Man of the Sea
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Yesterday’s Hero
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