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The Irish Sun
2 days ago
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- The Irish Sun
80s rocker puts incredible countryside pad up for sale for £750k after quitting music for farming – can you guess who?
A FAMOUS 80s rocker has put his incredible countryside pad up for sale for £750k. The famous Scottish star, now 67, is selling up after quitting music for farming - but can you guess who owns this house? 9 A much-loved 80s rocker has put his countryside pad up for sale for £750k Credit: Coulters, Edinburgh & The Lothians 9 Set across one floor, this home has seen many rock stars come and go Credit: Coulters, Edinburgh & The Lothians 9 This rocker's home comes with it;s own recording studio - but can you guess who owns it? Credit: Coulters, Edinburgh & The Lothians 9 Did you guess the house belonged to Derek Dick? Credit: Getty The rocker is question is Scottish star Derek Dick. The former lead singer of rock band Marillion has relocated to a remote area in the Outer Hebrides, so he is selling his East Lothian cottage, which is called "The Studio". Best known for his stage name Fish, the singer has filled stadiums and sold thousands of records around the world, but now opts for a more quiet life. Derek has been living at the property, located in Spittalrig, near Haddington, since 1988. Read more on star homes He is selling the home, after buying a croft in the Outer Hebrides last year with wife Simone, where he has turned his attention to farming. The impressive property - which is a converted four-bedroom farm cottage - is open plan, and is set across a single floor, and nestled in an acre of land. With high vaulted ceilings, exposed stone walls and even a wood-burning stove, the home is perfect for entertaining. The house holds a huge amount of memories for Derek, who has made a lot of music in the property's fully sound-proofed recording studio. Most read in Celebrity Many of Marillion's tracks were produced there, and huge acts like Radiohead and PJ Harvey have also recorded in the studio. Derek previously revealed how he was "sad" to leave the property, where he recorded his last album. Fish - Credo (Official Music Video) However, he added looking forward to his new life as a crofter in the north. Derek told Scotland on Sunday in 2024: " 'I recorded all 11 of my solo albums since Vigil here, the last being my designated final album Weltschmerz in 2020. 'There are a lot of incredible memories from my time here. "The dramas, the craziness,the laughter and the tears that filled this building over the years – it's saturated with great energies." 9 The cosy home comes with four bedrooms Credit: Coulters, Edinburgh & The Lothians 9 Fish has lived in the home since the 80s and recorded all his music there Credit: Coulters, Edinburgh & The Lothians 9 The impressive home is located in East Lothian Credit: Coulters, Edinburgh & The Lothians 9 The property also has its own home gym which overlooks the stunning scenery Credit: Coulters, Edinburgh & The Lothians FINDING FAME Dereck AKA Fish shot to fame at the lead singer of Marillion. The band's first album, Script for a Jester's Tear, was released over 40 years ago in 1983. He was the band's singer and lyricist for seven years and racked up 11 top 40 singles, including their biggest hit Kayleigh. After leaving the group in 1990 he went solo and had huge success. However, in 2020, revealed 9 Dick AKA Fish is best known is best known for the Scottish band Marillion Credit: Alamy
Scottish Sun
2 days ago
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- Scottish Sun
80s rocker puts incredible countryside pad up for sale for £750k after quitting music for farming – can you guess who?
The rocker revealed that he had written a lot his music in this house THROUGH THE KEYHOLE 80s rocker puts incredible countryside pad up for sale for £750k after quitting music for farming – can you guess who? Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) A FAMOUS 80s rocker has put his incredible countryside pad up for sale for £750k. The famous Scottish star, now 67, is selling up after quitting music for farming - but can you guess who owns this house? Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 9 A much-loved 80s rocker has put his countryside pad up for sale for £750k Credit: Coulters, Edinburgh & The Lothians 9 Set across one floor, this home has seen many rock stars come and go Credit: Coulters, Edinburgh & The Lothians 9 This rocker's home comes with it;s own recording studio - but can you guess who owns it? Credit: Coulters, Edinburgh & The Lothians 9 Did you guess the house belonged to Derek Dick? Credit: Getty The rocker is question is Scottish star Derek Dick. The former lead singer of rock band Marillion has relocated to a remote area in the Outer Hebrides, so he is selling his East Lothian cottage, which is called "The Studio". Best known for his stage name Fish, the singer has filled stadiums and sold thousands of records around the world, but now opts for a more quiet life. Derek has been living at the property, located in Spittalrig, near Haddington, since 1988. He is selling the home, after buying a croft in the Outer Hebrides last year with wife Simone, where he has turned his attention to farming. The impressive property - which is a converted four-bedroom farm cottage - is open plan, and is set across a single floor, and nestled in an acre of land. With high vaulted ceilings, exposed stone walls and even a wood-burning stove, the home is perfect for entertaining. The house holds a huge amount of memories for Derek, who has made a lot of music in the property's fully sound-proofed recording studio. Many of Marillion's tracks were produced there, and huge acts like Radiohead and PJ Harvey have also recorded in the studio. Derek previously revealed how he was "sad" to leave the property, where he recorded his last album. Fish - Credo (Official Music Video) However, he added looking forward to his new life as a crofter in the north. Derek told Scotland on Sunday in 2024: " 'I recorded all 11 of my solo albums since Vigil here, the last being my designated final album Weltschmerz in 2020. 'There are a lot of incredible memories from my time here. "The dramas, the craziness,the laughter and the tears that filled this building over the years – it's saturated with great energies." 9 The cosy home comes with four bedrooms Credit: Coulters, Edinburgh & The Lothians 9 Fish has lived in the home since the 80s and recorded all his music there Credit: Coulters, Edinburgh & The Lothians 9 The impressive home is located in East Lothian Credit: Coulters, Edinburgh & The Lothians 9 The property also has its own home gym which overlooks the stunning scenery Credit: Coulters, Edinburgh & The Lothians FINDING FAME Dereck AKA Fish shot to fame at the lead singer of Marillion. The band's first album, Script for a Jester's Tear, was released over 40 years ago in 1983. He was the band's singer and lyricist for seven years and racked up 11 top 40 singles, including their biggest hit Kayleigh. After leaving the group in 1990 he went solo and had huge success. However, in 2020, revealed he was retiring from music.
Telegraph
26-02-2025
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- Telegraph
Fish: the Marillion frontman bows out with dignity
'My name is Derek, and I am a fish for two more weeks,' announced Derek Dick, at the close of a passionate, powerful, moving and elegiac farewell concert at the London Palladium. The burly, balding, bearded and bespectacled Scottish rock singer who answers to the nickname Fish is retiring at the age of 66. 'My bookkeeper called and said, 'What's this money going into your account?'' he explained in a lilting Edinburgh brogue that peppered every sentence with implicit amusement. 'I said is it more than fifty quid? Well, it's not Spotify then! Then it dropped what it was: it's my pension. It's nice to get money off the government for a change.' Fish has been an interesting presence, making wordy, elaborate, theatrical and deeply unfashionable progressive rock with Marillion and solo for 44 years. He has had some hits but he's not a big star, walking away from the flashier Marillion in the late 1980s when they were on the cusp of stadium-conquering stardom. He has spent most of his career in the margins crafting deeply personal albums that he often funded and released himself to a loyal but shrinking fanbase. 'It gets harder this life as you get older,' he admitted, in one of many frank, funny, touching monologues, underpinned with slyly humorous bitterness about the music business, the paucity of streaming royalties, the encroachments of AI, the bureaucracy of touring Europe after Brexit, and all the 'corporate shite' he feels he has endured over the years. Taking a swig from a bottle, he wryly noted 'It's water. I'm a grown up! Besides, I can't afford the price of wine in this gaff.' Fish has been working towards this conclusion for some years. He released a final album, Weltschmerz (German for 'world-weariness') in 2020, put his recording studio in East Lothian up for sale, and is coming to the last weeks of a long final tour through Europe entitled Road to the Isles, that will conclude with two sold-out shows at the Glasgow O2 Academy on March 9 and 10. Afterwards, Mr Dick is retiring to a working 35-acre Croft farm in the outer Hebrides with his third wife, Simone. It's one of the more unusual farewells I've witnessed in the rock world, but there seems little doubt about his seriousness, rendered in cathartic and emotional performances of poetic, unwieldly songs that dig deep into his complex inner life. His voice has a nice thick tone but sometimes lacks tuning finesse, yet he more than made up for that with the charisma of his delivery. 'I'm a writer who can sing, not a singer who can write,' he admitted, thanking the audience for supporting him all these years and saving him 'thousands in therapy bills'. I've got to be honest, I haven't paid much attention to Fish myself over the years. His brand of prog rock already seemed dated when he first emerged in a post-punk world, and he has made little attempt to move with the times, operating in a comfort zone that draws on early Genesis, Yes and mid-period Pink Floyd, sometimes with Caledonian elements reflecting his heritage. On stage at the Palladium, his five-piece band were all supremely accomplished musicians, albeit with a pub-rock demeanour, the whole presentation undermined by low rent concept art videos. There were aspects of empty elaboration to overlong arrangements, a kind of blokeish jazz for people who don't like fancy chords, arty modulations or tricky rhythms. But Fish himself made the difference, the intensity of his performances emphasising how much is really going on in songs such as swaggering political protest anthems Credo and Big Wedge, broken ballads Just Good Friends, Cliché and A Gentleman's Excuses and old Marillion hits Kayleigh, Lavender and Heart of Lothian. Somehow, he even held the attention through the long, moody, synthesizer-led six-part song suite Plague of Ghosts, which included the singalong refrain 'Raingods with zippos, a tinman hides a broken heart.' Fish made a final amused and embattled speech about the challenges of the modern music business, before delivering a powerful rendition of his 1994 song Raw Meat. It is a song that hasn't previously featured on his farewell tour, addressing the privations of life on the road, which he dedicated to all musicians. 'We'll always have the strength to carry on,' he sang, with ironic and elegiac resignation. As the band fell silent behind him, Fish delivered a final defiant a capella line, insisting 'I'm nobody's fool but mine.' It was a genuinely touching ending, greeted with a roaring standing ovation. 'Thank you for the years,' he said. It's belated, I'll admit, but he turned this old critic into a fan at the very last.
