Afraid Of Sunlight<\/em> <\/a>sessions before we speak; he\u2019s check that, yes, one of Marillion\u2019s greatest and most enduring albums was wrapped up and recorded in a thrifty three months.<\/p>\nMeegan sayd the band, fresh off the Brave<\/em> tour, were in peak musical form \u2013 \u201cthey were like jazz musicians\u201d \u2013 and keen to get to work in their new Racket Club studio space. It was also the continuation of a way of doing things the band had developed with Brave<\/em>: jamming and writing together then letting Meegan distill the recorded elements down to their essence, and translating that into songs.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s down to memory,\u201d says Meegan. \u201cI\u2019ve got more mental RAM than they have. And since producing Marbles<\/em> I\u2019ve had a diagnosis of autism. Now it makes sense that every time a bit of music was jammed, I\u2019d go home, log it, give it a name. I can remember every piece of music I\u2019ve ever heard since about the age of about two.<\/p>\n\u201cSo when Marillion played something, I\u2019d go, \u2018Oh my God, that would be so good with this.\u2019 And then I\u2019d sort of rough it up for them physically so they could hear it. And that was the start of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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I love that Californian vibe on Afraid of Sunrise \u2013 even though it was recorded during a snowstorm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
He also pushed to include both tracks Afraid Of Sunrise<\/em> and Afraid Of Sunlight<\/em> on the album. \u201cI felt like Solomon and the two children \u2013 there was no way I was going to cut one in half. Also, everybody loves what we\u2019re playing on both versions, so it wasn\u2019t that hard to convince the band to include both.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s not a concept album, but there\u2019s definitely a singular idea going through it. So using the same lyric part across both musical ideas ties it together somehow; it makes you look at the album differently. I love that Californian vibe of Sunrise<\/em> \u2013 even though it was recorded during a snowstorm.\u201d<\/p>\nBut it wasn\u2019t all plain sailing. \u201cI used to always say that Out Of This World<\/em> was haunted,\u201d the producer says, referring to the song about Donald Campbell\u2019s fatal water speed record attempt in 1967. \u201cIt was weird. Dropouts and disks failing all the time; and even when we transferred it all to two-inch tape, the channels on the desk would stop working.<\/p>\n\u201cI was trying to put the mix down one time and the guitar had just gone, and the actual panel on the desk had just died. I was really careful to make sure that when we put down final versions, we actually did<\/em> get a final version.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
I realised it\u2019s a bloody good album \u2013 you know, \u2018How did we do that?!\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Meegan admits: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t one of my favourite Marillion albums after we\u2019d finished it. It was only when I went back to it in 1999, when it was remastered, that I realised it\u2019s a bloody good album \u2013 you know, \u2018How did we do that?!\u2019 Which is good in a way, because after we\u2019d done Marbles<\/em>, I was so happy with that, it helped me decide to stop working.<\/p>\n\u201cI knew Marbles<\/em> would let me go out on a creative high. I\u2019ve told myself since then that it\u2019s a good job that I didn\u2019t realise how good Sunlight<\/em> was at the time, because I would have stopped making records right there and then.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Marillion Dave Meegan partnered with Marillion on a slew of pivotal albums, helping the band develop a method of working that they still use today. But when he completed 1995 record Afraid Of Sunlight he didn\u2019t think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2001879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[364156,364155,364158,364157],"class_list":["post-2001878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-afraid-of-sunlight","tag-dave-meegan","tag-marbles","tag-marillion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-song-was-haunted-Marillion-producer-Dave-Meegans-fight-to.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}