MARILLION Incommunicado 12″ [Incommunicado, Incommunicado (Alternate Version), Going Under (Exclusive song)] CHECK VIDEO

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MARILLION: Incommunicado [Incommunicado, Incommunicado (Alternate Version), Going Under(Exclusive song to this release)]

Label: EMI ‎– 12 MARIL 6, EMI ‎– 12MARIL 6
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Press: UK
Date: 1987
Genre: Rock, Pop Progressive Rock
Tracklisting:
A Incommunicado (Album Version) 5:15
B1 Incommunicado (Alternative Mix) 5:55
B2 Going Under 2:47
Phonographic Copyright (p) – EMI Records Ltd.
Copyright (c) – EMI Records Ltd.
Published By – Marillion
Published By – Charisma Music Publishing Co. Ltd.
Manufactured By – EMI Records Ltd.
Written-By – Marillion
Notes
Marillion / Charisma Music Publ. Co. Ltd
℗ 1987 Original sound recording(s) made by EMI Records Ltd.
© 1987 EMI Records Ltd.
Manufactured in the UK by EMI Records Limited.

(Note: No tracktimings are credited on the release)

Incommunicado is a song by the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion. It was the lead single from their fourth studio album Clutching at Straws. Released on 11 May 1987, it reached number six in the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band’s third top-ten hit and their last until 2004’s “You’re Gone”. It also became a Top 40 hit in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland, as well as on the US Mainstream Rock chart.

Composition and release
The A-side is a fast, anthemic rock song with a repeated chorus and dominant keyboards from Mark Kelly. Kelly’s solo was later cited as an inspiration by Adam Wakeman. Lead singer and lyricist Fish acknowledged a similarity between the song and the work of the Who.

The B-side, the short, slow and introspective “Going Under”

Both tracks were written and arranged by Marillion and produced by Chris Kimsey.

The line “currently residing in the where-are-they-now file” is a reference to a scene in the film This Is Spinal Tap.

Cover art
The cover was designed by the band’s regular artist at the time, Mark Wilkinson; however, instead of the usual airbrush style, it was a collage based on a colourised photograph of fans waiting outside the Marquee Club, then still in Wardour Street (there are some posters advertising a Then Jerico gig on the door). Only the eccentrically dressed, pivotal “angel” character standing at the door apart from the crowd, was painted in Wilkinson’s traditional style. The scene alludes to the song’s main topic, success alienating artists from their fans and reality in general. On the back cover there is a quotation supposedly from Seneca the Younger’s Moral Epistles (“This mime of mortal life, in which we are apportioned roles we misinterpret.”)


Lyrics:
I’d be really pleased to meet you if I could remember your name
But I got problems of the memory ever since I got a winner in the fame game
I’m a citizen of Legoland travellin’ incommunicado
And I don’t give a damn for the Fleet Street aficionados
But I don’t want to be the back-page interview
I don’t want launderette anonymity
I want my hand prints in the concrete on Sunset Boulevard
A dummy in Tussaud’s you’ll see
Incommunicado, incommunicado
I’m a Marquee veteran, a multimedia bona fide celebrity
I’ve got an allergy to Perrier, daylight and responsibility
I’m a rootin’-tootin’ cowboy, the Peter Pan, the street credibility
Always taking the point with the dawn patrol fraternity
Sometimes it seems like I’ve been here before
When I hear opportunity kicking in my door
Call it synchronicity call it deja vu
I just put my faith in destiny – it’s the way that I choose
But I don’t want to be a tin can tied
To the bumper of a wedding limousine
Or currently residing in the where are they now file
A toupee on the cabaret scene
I want to do adverts for American Express cards
Talk shows on prime time TV
A villa in France, my own cocktail bar
And that’s where you’re gonna find me
Incommunicado, incommunicado
Sometimes it seems like I’ve been here before
When I hear opportunity kicking in my door
Call it synchronicity call it deja vu
I just put my faith in destiny – it’s the way that I choose
Incommunicado, incommunicado
It’s the only way
Songwriters: Derek William Dick / Mark Kelly / Ian Mosley / Steve Rothery / Pete Trewavas
Incommunicado lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

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