Garden Party (Marillion song)

"Garden Party"
Single by Marillion
from the album Script for a Jester's Tear
B-side	"Margaret"
Released	6 June 1983 (UK)
Length	4:35 (7"); 7:15 (12")
Label	EMI
Songwriter(s)	Fish, Steve Rothery, Pete Trewavas, Mark Kelly, Mick Pointer, Diz Minnett, and Brian Jelliman
Producer(s)	Nick Tauber
Marillion singles chronology
"He Knows You Know" (1983) "Garden Party" (1983) "Punch and Judy" (1984)
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"Garden Party (The Great Cucumber Massacre)" is a song by the British neo-prog band Marillion. It was the second single released from their debut album Script for a Jester's Tear. It reached number 16 in the UK Singles Chart in 1983, the band's biggest singles chart success prior to 1985.^[1] The song is a parody of social elitism and snobbery. The B-side is a live version of "Margaret" (recorded at Edinburgh Playhouse, 7 April 1983). The 12" single includes a live version of "Charting The Single" (recorded at Hammersmith Odeon, 18 April 1983).

A CD replica of the single was also part of a collectors box-set released in July 2000 which contained Marillion's first twelve singles and was re-issued as a 3-CD set in 2009 (see The Singles '82-'88).