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”. Prog Magazine ranked it at #40 in its list of the “100 Greatest Prog Albums of All Time.” 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. 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.

Tracklisting

1. Record 1 - Script For A Jesters’s Tear (2020 Remix)
2. Script For A Jester’s Tear (8:42)
3. He Knows You Know (5:23)
4. The Web (8:50)
5. Garden Party (7:20)
6. Chelsea Monday (8:17)
7. Forgotten Sons (8:23)
8. Record 2 - Market Square Heroes EP (2020 Remix)
9. Market Square Heroes (4:16)
10. Three Boats Down From The Candy (4:30)
11. Charting The Single (4:52)
12. Grendel (17:17)
13. Record 3 - Live At The Marquee Club Part 1 29th December 1982 (Previously Unreleased)
14. Garden Party (7:54)
15. Three Boats Down From The Candy (4:40)
16. Chelsea Monday (7:59)
17. Grendel (17:55)
18. He Knows You Know (5:27)
19. Record 4 - Live At The Marquee Club Part 2 29th December 1982 (Previously Unreleased)
20. The Web (10:01)
21. Script For A Jester’s Tear (8:20)
22. Forgotten Sons (10:38)
23. Market Square Heroes (5:27)
24. Margaret (6:43)

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