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Rush's eighth studio album. Released on February 12, 1981.Track List:1 - Tom Sawyer 0:002 - Red Barchetta 04:363 - YYZ 10:464 - Limelight 15:125 - The Camera...
1981
Moving Pictures became the band’s biggest selling album in the U.S., rising to #3 on the Billboard charts. It remains Rush’s most popular and commercially successful studio recording. Rush’s complex songwriting and musical virtuosity reached new heights on this album.
Moving Pictures is the eighth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on February 12, 1981, by Anthem Records. After touring to support their previous album, Permanent Waves (1980), the band started to write and record new material in August 1980 with longtime co-producer Terry Brown .
In 1981, Rush fully transformed from a prog-rock trio to a mainstay of classic rock. A 40th-anniversary reissue of Moving Pictures captures the band at their absolute peak.
That album, titled Moving Pictures, would become the band’s best selling album, and feature some of their most iconic songs including “Tom Sawyer” and the instrumental track “YYZ ...
Feb 11, 2022 · Moving Pictures, Rush’s eighth studio album, was originally released on February 12, 1981, and its adventurous yet accessible music catapulted the forward-thinking Canadian band to even newer heights as it began navigating the demands of a new decade.
Oct 28, 2023 · Moving Pictures defined Rush in the 1980s as powerfully as 2112 had done in in the previous decade. If 2112 was the apogee of the band’s progressive rock era, Moving Pictures crystalized the modern Rush – in the clean lines and lean power of songs such as Tom Sawyer and Red Barchetta.
Moving Pictures is the eighth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on February 12, 1981, by Anthem Records. After touring to support their previous album, Permanent Waves,...
Rush’s eighth studio album, 1981’s Moving Pictures, hoisted the trio out from its progressive rock trappings and exposed it to the radio-listening world at large with such groundbreaking hits as “Tom Sawyer” and “Limelight.”
