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The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra) is a double live album by the British neo-prog band Marillion.It was named after the introductory piece of classical music the band used before coming on stage during the Clutching at Straws tour 1987–1988, the overture to Rossini's opera La gazza ladra, which translates as "The Thieving Magpie".
The Thieving Magpie is best known for the overture, which is musically notable for its use of snare drums. This memorable section in Rossini's overture evokes the image of the opera's main subject: a devilishly clever, thieving magpie. Rossini wrote quickly, and La gazza ladra was no exception. A 19th-century biography quotes him as saying that ...
Marillion / m ə ˈ r ɪ l i ə n / are a British neo prog band, formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 1979.They emerged from the post-punk music scene in Britain and existed as a bridge between the styles of punk rock and classic progressive rock, [4] becoming the most commercially successful neo-prog band of the 1980s.
This is the discography of the British rock band Marillion.Mostly associated with the progressive rock genre, they emerged as the most successful band of its second wave, neo-prog, but they have also achieved over 20 UK Top 40 singles, including four which reached the Top 10.
The single was intended to promote the forthcoming double-live album The Thieving Magpie, which documents the band's history with singer Fish, who had left the band in October 1988; as such, this was Marillion's last single to feature Fish on vocals and cover art by Mark Wilkinson, who would go on to collaborate with Fish.
The Thieving Magpie (1988) Seasons End (1989) Holidays in Eden (1991) ... Seasons End is the fifth studio album by British neo-prog band Marillion, released in 1989.
The second soundtrack album contains a synthesiser version of Rossini's "La Gazza Ladra" (The Thieving Magpie); the film contains an orchestral version. In 1998, a digitally-remastered album edition, with tracks of the synthesiser music was released.
B'Sides Themselves is a compilation of single B-sides by the British neo-prog band Marillion, which was released on CD only in January 1988.This was the first time that those B-sides were made available in the then still relatively new Compact Disc format (with the exception of "Tux On", which had featured on a limited edition CD single of "Sugar Mice" that was only sold at concerts).