Marillion, Misadventures & Marathons: The Life & Times Of Mad Jack

Much like finding yourself on the ninth storey window ledge of a Luxembourg hotel as the wind whips around you, as Mark Kelly once did, it’s not unusual to question your life choices sometimes.”\nMarillion’s Mark Kelly has had six decades to consider a life less ordinary and the decisions he made that took him there. From a dirt poor early childhood in Ireland to some of the biggest stages around the world, Kelly’s journey has described an arc that any fiction writer might blanch at. The departure from the band of their singer at the height of their powers; reinventing the music industry wheel by pioneering crowdfunding to help his band survive; and going from club shows to arenas and almost all the way back again.\nWritten during 2021, Kelly’s autobiography charts the remarkable rise and fall and rise of one of rock music’s most enduring bands and the keyboard player at the heart of that journey.\nChapter List: Chapter 1 – In Dublin’s Fair City Chapter 2 – The Best Days Of Our Lives Chapter 3 – A Chip Off The Old Communist Bloc Chapter 4 – Fifteen Stone First Footer Chapter 5 – All Change Chapter 6 – Welcome To The Machine Chapter 7 – Charting The Singles Chapter 8 – Kill The Pape Chapter 9 – Do You Remember? Chapter 10 – Too Big To Fail Chapter 11 – Going Under Chapter 12 – Marillion Require Vocalist Chapter 13 – A Man For All Seasons Chapter 14 – Pain & Heaven Chapter 15 – Fortune Favours The Brave Chapter 16 – Down, Not Out Chapter 17 – Candlelit Dinners Chapter 18 – The Mother Of Invention - Crowdfunding Chapter 19 – Big Mouth Strikes Again Chapter 20 – The Road To Happiness Epilogue.