The Thieving Magpie
by Marillion
- Type: Album
- Released: 28 November 1988
- Label: EMI
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 1:52:53
- Community rating: 3.92/5 from 3 ratings
Artists on this release: Steve Rothery, Mark Kelly, John Batty, Ian Mosley, Pete Trewavas
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Serving as the grand finale for frontman Fish's tenure with the pioneering British neo-prog group, this expansive double album compiles performances from several mid-eighties tours. The highly dramatic, emotionally fraught renditions of their complex, synthesizer-heavy epics solidified the definitive end of their most celebrated era.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, live, progressive, symphonic, british
Tracklist
- La Gazza Ladra - Live (2:45)
- Slainte Mhath - Live (4:49)
- He Knows You Know - Live (5:12)
- Chelsea Monday - Live (8:00)
- Freaks - Live in Germany (4:14)
- Jigsaw - Live (6:24)
- Punch and Judy - Live (3:23)
- Sugar Mice - Live (6:03)
- Fugazi - Live (8:39)
- Script for a Jester's Tear - Live (8:45)
- Incommunicado - Live (5:23)
- White Russian - Live (6:14)
- Pseudo Silk Kimono - Live (2:19)
- Kayleigh - Live in London (4:09)
- Lavender - Live (2:27)
- Bitter Suite: Brief Encounter / Lost Weekend / Blue Angel / Misplaced Rendezvous / Windswept Thumb - Live (7:38)
- Heart of Lothian - Live (5:12)
- Waterhole (Expresso Bongo) - Live (2:16)
- Lords of the Backstage - Live (6:07)
- Blind Curve: Vocal Under a Bloodlight / Passing Strangers / Mylo / Perimeter Walk / Threshold - Live (5:34)
- Childhood's End? - Live in London (2:51)
- White Feather - Live in London (4:20)
Credits
- The Artful Dodgers - artwork
- Pete Trewavas - bass, vocals
- Ian Mosley - drums, percussion
- Mark Kelly - keyboards
- Warwick Price - lighting
- Andy Field - production manager
- Herman Schueremans - promotion [tour promoter belgium]
- Leon Ramakers - promotion [tour promoters holland]