MARSEILLE – Rock You Tonight ; The Anthology (first 3 albums on 2-CD)
It was requested here the discography of English underground rockers MARSEILLE. They released 3 LP’s between 1978 / 1984, however none have been officially released on CD. However Castle Music / Sanctuary did the trick some years ago with this ”Rock You Tonight ; The Anthology”, a 2xCD release comprising the entire (and most ‘famous’) MARSEILLE 1984 album ‘Touch The Night’, and almost the complete ‘Red, White & Slightly Blue’ (1978) and self-titled ‘Marseille’ (1979), with a couple of songs replaced by hard-to-find standalone 7” singles.
While Marseille were the first band to win the “UK Battle of the Bands” competition at Wembley Arena in 1977, and were the first NWOBHM act to secure a major recording contract, to tour in the United States, as well as the first band from the genre to release an album there, they never achieved mainstream success.
Their first two albums will please fans of late Seventies classic British hard rock / proto metal, while on the third the band incorporates synths and a more melodic-hard approach to their music as happened with most bands of this ilk in the mid-Eighties…
