Editing Fish (singer) (section)

==Musical style==
Fish has sometimes been compared to [[Peter Gabriel]], original lead singer of [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]] in the early 1970s, and his voice has even been described as "uncannily close".<ref>{{cite book |last=Borthwick |first=Stuart |title=Popular Music Genres: An Introduction |year=2004|publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-0-7486-1745-6}} "Their vocalist Fish (Derek Dick) had a voice uncannily close to Peter Gabriel's"</ref> Music journalist [[David Hepworth]] described his voice as a "conflation of [[Roger Daltrey]] and [[Peter Gabriel]]".<ref name="Hepworth"/> Fish has acknowledged Gabriel's influence on him and some vocal similarities, but has rejected accusations from some critics during his career that he does not have a unique voice of his own.<ref name="prasad"/> [[Peter Hammill]] of [[Van der Graaf Generator]] was also a major influence on his songwriting and vocal delivery, which is especially notable on the first two Marillion albums.<ref name="Larkin"/>

In 2018, Fish told [[Planet Rock (radio station)|Planet Rock]], "I don't look at myself as a singer, I'm not a technically gifted singer. I think one of the problems I had was back in the early Eighties I was singing very wrong, very unnatural. I think if I'd gone to see a voice coach at that point in my life they'd have said 'stop singing like that because you will not be able to keep that going for the rest of your life.'"<ref name="colothan">{{cite web |last=Colothan |first=Scott |date=2 July 2018 |title=Fish explains why he's retiring in 2020 and insists 'it's not a Status Quo' |url=https://planetradio.co.uk/planet-rock/news/rock-news/fish-explains-why-hes-retiring-in-2020-and-insists-its-not-a-status-quo/ |access-date=27 February 2023 |work=[[Planet Rock (radio station)|Planet Rock]]}}</ref>