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Sugar Mice is the second single from Marillion’s fourth studio album, Clutching at Straws. Released on 13 July 1987, it peaked at number 22 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band’s 8th top-thirty hit in a row. Outside the UK, it was released in France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal, West Germany and (on Capitol Records) in the USA and Canada. A number of formats were available: 7” single, 7” picture disc (containing a fold-out sleeve with a poster), 12” single, 12” picture disc. 3,000 copies of a 5” CD single were produced that were exclusively sold at concerts. The title track is a melancholic rock ballad with lyrics from the perspective of a British worker who emigrates to the USA to escape unemployment, leaving behind his family, and ends up drinking in a hotel... Read on...