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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".
Made Again is a 1996 double live album by Marillion, their first live recording with singer Steve Hogarth.The first disc contains material recorded in London on the Holidays in Eden tour (1991) and in Rotterdam on the Afraid of Sunlight tour (1995); the second disc consists of a full live version of the album Brave recorded in Paris in 1994.
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A Singles Collection (released as Six of One, Half-Dozen of the Other in the U.S.) is a compilation album of Marillion singles from both the Fish era and the Steve Hogarth era, celebrating the band's ten-year jubilee (taking 1982, when their debut single was released, as the starting point).
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 ...
Early Stages (Official Bootleg Box Set 1982–1987) is a box set containing live recordings of Marillion with their former singer Fish.The recordings were made by the BBC for radio broadcast, and are from five concerts performed by the band in the UK between 1982 and 1987.
Thieving Magpie , 1848 novel by Alexander Herzen about a production of the French play in a Russian serf theatre Thieving Magpie (film) , 1958 Soviet drama film, based on Herzens's novel The Thieving Magpie (album) , 1988 double live album by Marillion named after the overture to Rossini's opera
Misplaced Childhood was released in the United Kingdom on 17 June 1985 by EMI Records [1] on LP, [nb 1] 12" picture disc and cassette [8] and went on to be the band's biggest selling album. It topped the UK Albums Chart , becoming the first and the only Marillion album to do so.