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Marillion - Script for a Jester's Tear
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Side one
1. "Script for a Jester's Tear" 8:40
2. "He Knows You Know" 5:23
3. "The Web" 8:48
Side two
4. "Garden Party" 7:16
5. "Chelsea Monday" 8:17
6. "Forgotten Sons" 8:21
1997 EMI Records remastered edition bonus disc
1. "Market Square Heroes" 4:17
2. "Three Boats Down from the Candy" 4:30
3. "Grendel" 19:08
4. "Chelsea Monday" 6:52
5. "He Knows You Know" 4:28
6. "Charting the Single" 4:51
7. "Market Square Heroes" 4:48
Marillion Band Members Musicians
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")
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)
Script for a Jester's Tear is the debut studio album by British neo-progressive rock band Marillion, released in the United Kingdom on 13 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. 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.
Marillion /məˈrɪliən/ are a British rock band, formed in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 1979. They emerged from the post-punk music scene in Britain and existed as a bridge between the styles of punk rock and classic progressive rock, becoming the premier neo-progressive rock band of the 1980s.
Marillion's recorded studio output since 1982 is composed of twenty albums, generally regarded in two distinct eras, delineated by the departure of original lead singer Fish in late 1988 and the subsequent arrival the new guy Steve Hogarth in early 1989. The band achieved eight Top Ten UK albums between 1983 and 1994, including a number one album in 1985 with Misplaced Childhood, and during the period the band were fronted by Fish they had eleven Top 40 hits on the UK Singles Chart. They are best known for the 1985 singles "Kayleigh" and "Lavender", which reached number two and number five respectively, with "Kayleigh" also entering the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.
Marillion Band Members
Steve Rothery – electric guitars, acoustic guitars (1979–present)
Mark Kelly – keyboards, samples and effects, backing vocals, programming (1981–present)
Pete Trewavas – bass guitars, backing vocals, additional studio guitars, additional studio samples and effects (1982–present)
Ian Mosley – drums, percussion (1984–present)
Steve Hogarth – lead vocals, additional keyboards, additional live guitars, percussion (1989–present)
Mick Pointer – drums (1979–1983)
Brian Jelliman – keyboards (1979–1981)
Doug 'Rastus' Irvine – bass guitar, lead vocals (1979–1981)
Fish – lead vocals, percussion (1981–1988)
Diz Minnitt – bass guitars (1981–1982)
Andy Ward – drums, percussion (1983)
John 'Martyr' Marter – drums (1983)
Jonathan Mover – drums (1983–1984)
Marillion Discography Full - Studio Albums
Script for a Jester's Tear (1983)
Fugazi (1984)
Misplaced Childhood (1985)
Clutching at Straws (1987)
Seasons End (1989)
Holidays in Eden (1991)
Brave (1994)
Afraid of Sunlight (1995)
This Strange Engine (1997)
Radiation (1998)
marillion.com (1999)
Anoraknophobia (2001)
Marbles (2004)
Somewhere Else (2007)
Happiness Is the Road (2008)
Less Is More (2009)
Sounds That Can't Be Made (2012)
Fuck Everyone and Run (F E A R) (2016)
With Friends from the Orchestra (2019)
