Script for a Jester's Tear | ||||
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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 | |||
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Singles from Script for a Jester's Tear | ||||
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AllMusic | [2] |
Record Mirror | [3] |
Smash Hits | 4/10[4] |
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]