"Garden Party" | ||||
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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 | |||
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Garden Party |
"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).