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Studio album by Marillion
Released 14 March 1983[1]
Recorded December 1982 – February 1983
Studio The Marquee, London
Genre Neo-prog
Length 46:45
Label EMI
Producer Nick Tauber
Marillion chronology
Script for a Jester`s Tear
(1983) Fugazi
(1984)

Script for a Jester`s Tear is the debut studio album by British neo-prog band Marillion, released in the United Kingdom on 14 March 1983 by EMI Records. The album reached number seven and spent 31 weeks in the UK Albums Chart, eventually achieving a platinum certificate, and produced the top 40 single `He Knows You Know` and the top 20 single `Garden Party`.

Script for a Jester`s Tear is the only studio album by Marillion to feature the band`s original drummer and founding member Mick Pointer, who was dismissed following the album`s UK tour.[5][6] In Martin Popoff`s 2016 biography of Yes, the album is credited with being part of a `new wave` of British progressive rock which also helped to give a second life to earlier bands.[7]

Background and recording
Marillion released their first single, `Market Square Heroes`, on 25 October 1982. It was a minor hit, peaking at number 53 on the UK Singles Chart.[8] It was produced by David Hitchcock, who was also contracted to work on the group`s first full-length album. He was seriously injured in a car accident when he drove home after completing work on the single. EMI took advantage of the opportunity and persuaded the group to replace him with Nick Tauber, a producer known for his work with new wave band Toyah and regarded by the record label as more modern.

Neither `Market Square Heroes`, nor the B-sides of the 12` single, `Three Boats Down from the Candy` and the 17-minute-long epic `Grendel`, were included on Script for a Jester`s Tear, although a short radio segment of the A-side can be briefly heard prior to `Forgotten Sons`. As stated in the original liner notes, the music from the album was composed, arranged and performed by Marillion and the lyrics were written by Fish alone. In the 1997 remastered edition, four out of six songs are additionally credited to bass player Diz Minnit and keyboard player Brian Jelliman, who were both the initial members of the group. The recording sessions for the album started in December 1982 at The Marquee Studios in London and finished in February 1983, with Tauber producing and Simon Hanhart engineering.

The cover artwork was designed by Mark Wilkinson, who would be commissioned to the role on all Marillion releases through The Thieving Magpie (1988).[9]

In later years, both Fish and Steve Rothery have spoken critically of their work on the album. Fish said in 2016, `I hear somebody singing in very bad keys! Sometimes I don`t even recognise the guy who`s singing on that album. That high falsetto voice, it was very forced. But I was young. I didn`t understand anything about music and keys, and I was singing very high.`[10] Rothery was not satisfied with his guitar sound. He said in 2022, `I didn`t have the experience, I didn`t know the sound I wanted, so I was using maybe my old Yamaha SG-2000. I think I had an Orange amp in the early days. I can`t remember when I switched to Marshalls. Anyway, it wasn`t a sound that I was in love with.`[

Side one
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. `Script for a Jester`s Tear` Fish, Steve Rothery, Pete Trewavas, Mick Pointer, Mark Kelly 8:40
2. `He Knows You Know` Fish, Rothery, Trewavas, Kelly, Pointer, Diz Minnitt, Brian Jelliman 5:23
3. `The Web` Fish, Trewavas, Kelly, Pointer, Rothery, Minnitt, Jelliman 8:48
Side two
No. Title Writer(s) Length
4. `Garden Party` Fish, Kelly, Rothery, Trewavas, Pointer, Jelliman, Minnitt 7:16
5. `Chelsea Monday` Fish, Rothery, Trewavas, Kelly, Pointer, Minnitt 8:17
6. `Forgotten Sons` Fish, Rothery, Trewavas, Kelly, Pointer, Jelliman, Minnitt 8:21
Total length: 46:45

Personnel
Marillion
Fish – vocals
Steve Rothery – guitars; photography (1997 remastered edition)
Pete Trewavas – bass
Mark Kelly – keyboards; digital remastering (at Abbey Road Studios, London, April – July 1997)
Mick Pointer – drums, percussion
Additional musicians
Marquee Club`s Parents Association Children`s Choir – choir (on `Forgotten Sons`)
Peter Cockburn – newscaster`s voice (on `Forgotten Sons`)
Technical personnel
Nick Tauber – producer
Simon Hanhart – engineer, mixing engineer
Pete James – sound effects
Jo Mirowski – art direction, design (at Torchlight, London)
Mark Wilkinson – illustration
Dave Hitchcock – producer (on `Market Square Heroes` (Battle Priest version), `Three Boats Down from the Candy`)
Craig Thompson – engineer (on `Market Square Heroes` (Battle Priest version), `Three Boats Down from the Candy`)
Danny Dawson – engineer (on `Chelsea Monday` (Manchester Square demo), `He Knows You Know` (Manchester Square demo))
Pete Mew – digital remastering (at Abbey Road Studios, London, April – July 1997)
Bill Smith Studio – repackaging design (1997 remastered edition)