Classic Rock

My 2020 MARK KELLY

The unexpected downtime is for musicians among the very few bonuses of lockdown. Marillion keyboard player Mark Kelly admits that without it his first ever solo project may not have come to fruition. Kelly explains why he chose to use a largely untried group of collaborators for his Marathon project, and also provides his take on the weirdest year in living memory.

The record label’s biog tells us that has been thirty years in the making.

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