Marillion 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, becoming the most commercially successful neo-prog band of the 1980s.
Nicholas Beggs is a British musician, noted for playing the bass guitar and the Chapman Stick; he is a member of the Mute Gods and Kajagoogoo, formerly also a part of Iona and Ellis, Beggs & Howard and plays in the band of Steven Wilson. He is known for modifying a Chapman Stick into a fully MIDI-capable instrument triggering MIDI from both bass and melody strings; he calls it the Virtual Stick.
Ian F. Mosley is an English drummer. He is best known for his long-time membership of the neo-prog band Marillion, which he joined for their second album, Fugazi, released in 1984. He had previously been an in-demand session drummer. Mosley's abilities have been widely praised, including by former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett, Meshuggah drummer Tomas Haake and critic John Franck of AllMusic. Modern Drummer has characterised him as a "drumming great".
Mark Colbert Kelly is an Irish keyboardist and a member of the neo-prog band Marillion.
Peter Trewavas is an English musician, best known as the bassist of the progressive rock band Marillion. He joined in 1982, replacing Diz Minnitt, while acting as a backing vocalist and occasional guitarist.
John Wesley Dearth III is an American guitarist and singer, best known as touring guitarist for Porcupine Tree between 2002 and 2010, and also for performing with Mike Tramp, Fish, Sound of Contact, Edison's Children and Vertical Horizon, as well as for his solo work.
Jon Astley is a British record producer and mastering engineer who has also recorded and released two studio albums as a singer-songwriter in the late 1980s. His most commercially successful song was "Jane's Getting Serious", later popularized by a Heinz ketchup television commercial starring a pre-Friends Matt LeBlanc.
Sarah K Pedinotti known professionally as LIP TALK is an American experimental pop producer, multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer and songwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. She is a collaborator and player in numerous bands, including Kalbells, Hayley Williams, The Secret Machines, Okkervil River, Cuddle Magic, and Railbird.
Tessa Margaret Niles is an English singer, best known as a backing singer for a wide variety of contemporary artists. She began her professional singing career in 1979.
Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong was an American string band and country blues musician, who played fiddle, mandolin, and guitar and sang. He was also a notable visual artist and raconteur.
Éric Guillemain is a French Photographer born in Morocco. He has worked with Peter Lindbergh and has famously photographed Vanessa Paradis for Vs. Magazine.
Edison's Children is a science fiction-oriented progressive rock trio, featuring Rick Armstrong, the son of astronaut Neil Armstrong, Pete Trewavas and On-Set Special FX artist Eric Blackwood ; known for writing "epic Concept albums" with supernatural, apocalyptic and extra-terrestrial themes. These "Double Albums" & 80 minute long CDs include vivid visual accompaniments in the form of 20 page "lyrics and images" insert booklets by photographer / album cover artist Wendy Darling Blackwood.
Garry Pastore is an American actor, stuntman, writer, and filmmaker.
Irving Szathmary, born Isadore Szathmary in Quincy, Massachusetts, and died in Valletta, Malta, on the eve of his 76th birthday, was an American musical composer and arranger most known for scoring the Get Smart television series.
Henry Rogers is an English drummer, session artist, producer, sound developer and 2 time winner of the Classic Rock Society's award for "Drummer of the Year". He is best known for performing drums on 6 different Marillion "spinoff releases" including: 3 albums by Pete Trewavas' Edison's Children which stars Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong's son, Rick Armstrong & On-Set Hollywood Special FX Artist Eric Blackwood and 3 albums by Marillion's Mark Kelly including 2 with DeeExpus starring Andy Ditchfield and most recently "Mark Kelly's Marathon" in 2020. Henry Rogers has been featured in 5 releases with the British progressive rock band Touchstone and in 2018 joined Mostly Autumn.
Jennifer Margaret Barker is a Scottish-American classical composer and pianist. Her compositional style is highly influenced by the landscape, culture and musical heritage of Scotland. She is Professor of Composition and Theory at the University of Delaware. Her music has been recorded on the Naxos Records, Composers Recordings Inc., New World Records, Albany Records, Meyer Media and PnOVA Recordings labels. She is published by Boosey & Hawkes, Theodore Presser Company, Vanderbeek & Imrie Ltd., Southern Percussion and McKenna-Keddie Publishing.
Pierangelo Summa also known as Piero Summa, was an Italian theatre director, theatre masks creator, and puppeteer. Born in Como, Italy, he is mostly known in Europe. Even if he can be considered as one of the leaders of the Italian theater movement of the 70s, for his puppets, Commedia dell'arte masks and theatre directing, he mainly became notorious in France from the 80s on, and even more after his death in 2015, when his work was rediscovered and brought to light by his son Robin Summa.
Alfonso Sorrentino is an Italian mathematician, currently full professor of Mathematical analysis at University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy).
