Marillion, led by Derek "Fish" Dick – please don't ask me to explain his name – is a neo-progressive rock quintet from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. They took their name from
Quenta Silmarillion ("Tales of the Silmaris"), a J.R.R. Tolkien story. Marillion has had 23 top-40 hits in the UK.
Kayleigh, their only song to make the
Billboard Hot 100, reached #74 on the chart for the week ending October 20, 1985. The song got to #14 on the mainstream rock chart.
And here is the origin of the title:
Kayleigh was a composite of singer Fish's ex-girlfriends, the lost lover lending her invented name to a new generation of young girls
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