- He has a daughter, Jennifer.
- He is the guitarist with rock band Marillion, who had a UK number one album in 1985 with "Misplaced Childhood" and two top five hit singles, "Kayleigh" and "Lavender".
- He started playing the guitar at the age of 15 and decided it was to be his vocation.
- In July 2001, he was voted the best guitarist from the Yorkshire and Humberside region in the Total Guitar Magazine poll of the greatest 12 British guitarists.
- Rothery performed Marillion's most famous song, Kayleigh, on a chorused strat, using the pick and his second and third fingers to play it.
- Rothery is the only member of Marillion's original lineup who remains in the band to this day.
- His bandmates in Marillion are singer Steve Hogarth, keyboardist Mark Kelly, bass guitarist Pete Trewavas and drummer Ian Mosley.
- He likes the Fender Stratocaster and used it on the first eleven Marillion albums. However, since their Anoraknophobia album in 2001 he has moved to playing the Blade RH4 Classic Stratocaster instead. He also plays the Blade Delta Telecaster, Blade Texas Standard Stratocaster, Steinberger Custom made double neck 12/6, Takamine 12 string acoustic, Takamine Santa Fe 6 string acoustic and Squier Stratocaster.
- In March 2003, Marillion's 1985 album "Misplaced Childhood" came fourth in Classic Rock Magazine's list of the 30 greatest concept albums of all time and their 1994 album "Brave" came 23rd.
- In a 2001 interview by Total Guitar Magazine, Rothery named Jeff Beck and Larry Carlton as his favourite guitarists.
- On 8 April 2004, with bandmates Steve Hogarth and Pete Trewavas, he played a live acoustic set for Matthew Wright on BBC Radio 2.
- His favorite albums are "Song to a Seagull" and "Hejira" by Joni Mitchell, "Bellybutton" by Jellyfish, "Hounds of Love" by Kate Bush, "Little Earthquakes" by Tori Amos, "So" by Peter Gabriel, "Crowded House" by Crowded House, "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd, "Bladerunner" by Vangelis and "Hats" by The Blue Nile.
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