Artist: MARILLION
Album: SCRIPT FOR A JESTERs TEARS 2021 REMIX (CD)

Year: 1983/ 2021
EAN/UPS: 0190295301804
Media type: CD

Script for a Jester's Tear is the first album by the progressive rock band Marillion. Released in 1983, it included songs like "Forgotten Sons" and the title track, regarded by some as modern classics.

The single released before this album was "Market Square Heroes" with the double B-sides, "Three Boats Down from the Candy" and the 17 minute epic "Grendel". (That version of "Grendel" is not the same version as the one on the second CD on the 2 CD version of this album.)

"He Knows You Know" and "Garden Party" were also released as singles, and became Top 40 hits in the UK.

This is the only Marillion LP to feature Mick Pointer, founding and current drummer for Arena.

There was supposed to be a rubber plant featured on the album's cover, per Fish's request; however, Mark Wilkinson who air-brushed this and several other albums for Marillion, forgot to include it.

TRACKLIST:

1 "Script for A Jester's Tear" – 8:42
2 "He Knows You Know" – 5:23
3 "The Web" – 8:52
4 "Garden Party" – 7:19
5 "Chelsea Monday" – 8:17
6 "Forgotten Sons" – 8:23

LINE-UP:

Fish (Derek W. Dick) - vocals and lyrics (left in 1988)
Mick Pointer - drums (Founding member - left 1983)
Steve Rothery - electric and acoustic guitars - Founding member
Pete Trewavas - bass guitars, backing vocals, additional guitars, samples and effects (joined 1982)
Mark Kelly - keyboards, samples and effects, backing vocals, programming (joined 1981)