Editing Script for a Jester's Tear (section)

{{Short description|1983 studio album by Marillion}}
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{{Infobox album
| name       = Script for a Jester's Tear
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Marillion]]
| cover      = Marillion_-_Script_for_a_Jester's_Tear.jpg
| caption    = Cover art by [[Mark Wilkinson]]
| border     = yes
| released   = 14 March 1983<ref>{{cite magazine|date=5 March 1983|title=News|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/80s/83/Record-Mirror-1983-03-05-OCR.pdf|magazine=[[Record Mirror]]|page=6|access-date=2 September 2022}}</ref>
| recorded   = December 1982 – February 1983
| studio     = [[Marquee Club|The Marquee]], London
| genre      = [[Neo-prog]]
| length     = {{Duration|m=46|s=45}}
| label      = [[EMI Records|EMI]]
| producer   = [[Nick Tauber]]
| next_title = [[Fugazi (album)|Fugazi]]
| next_year  = 1984
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Script for a Jester's Tear
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[He Knows You Know]]
 | single1date = 31 January 1983
 | single2     = [[Garden Party (Marillion song)|Garden Party]]
 | single2date = 6 June 1983
 }}
}}

{{Music ratings
| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="AllMusic">{{AllMusic |class=album |id=script-for-a-jesters-tear-mw0000197681 |label=Marillion: ''Script for a Jester's Tear'' > Review |first=John |last=Franck |accessdate=4 August 2018}}</ref>
| rev2      = ''[[Record Mirror]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="RMreview">{{cite magazine|last=Smith|first=Robin|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/80s/83/Record-Mirror-1983-03-12-OCR.pdf|title=Fishing for Compliments. Marillion – ''Script for a Jester's Tear'' review|magazine=[[Record Mirror]]|date=12 March 1983|access-date=15 November 2022|page=20|location=London|publisher=Spotlight Publications Ltd.|via=World Radio History|issn=0144-5804|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220402000241/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/80s/83/Record-Mirror-1983-03-12-OCR.pdf|archive-date=2 April 2022}}</ref>
| rev3      = ''[[Smash Hits]]''
| rev3score = 4/10<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Steels|first=Mark|author-link=|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Smash-Hits/1983/Smash-Hits-1983-03-17.pdf|title=Marillion: ''Script for a Jester's Tear''|magazine=[[Smash Hits]]|location=Peterborough|publisher=EMAP National Publications, Ltd.|volume=5|issue=6|page=30|date=17–30 March 1983|issn=0260-3004|access-date=15 November 2022|via=World Radio History|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928101751/https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Smash-Hits/1983/Smash-Hits-1983-03-17.pdf|archive-date=28 September 2022|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>
| noprose = yes

}}

'''''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 [[Music recording certification|platinum certificate]], and produced the top 40 single "[[He Knows You Know]]" and the top 20 single "[[Garden Party (Marillion song)|Garden Party]]". ''Prog Magazine'' ranked it at #40 in its list of the "100 Greatest Prog Albums of All Time."

''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.<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.aylesburyfriars.co.uk/interviewsmickpointer.html | title= Friars Interviews Mick Pointer| work=Aylesbury Friars | accessdate=25 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine | url=http://www.daveling.co.uk/doc-fish.htm | title=Fish interview | magazine=[[Classic Rock (magazine)|Classic Rock]] | first=Dave | last=Ling | date=October 2001 | accessdate=25 September 2018 | archive-date=28 January 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128132712/http://www.daveling.co.uk/doc-fish.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref> In [[Martin Popoff]]'s 2016 biography of [[Yes (band)|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.<ref>{{cite book |last=Popoff |first=Martin |year=2016 |title=Time And a Word: The Yes Story |location=London |publisher=Soundcheck Books |page=98 |isbn=9780993212024 |author-link=Martin Popoff}}</ref>