Mike Dixon, one of the movers on the Moving Pictures and Exit Stage Left album covers, discussed the various people on the Moving Pictures cover with the website The first, Bobby King seen furthest to the left on the album cover , was a member of Hugh Syme 's design team, and is credited for assisting Syme on A Farewell to Kings , Hemispheres and Archives.
Dixon explains that King is not only one of the movers, but also the original Starman on and Dionysus the nude man on the Hemispheres cover.
According to Dixon, the mover holding the Starman painting is Kelly Jay, singer of the Toronto band Crowbar Crowbar performed with Rush at the Minkler Auditorium in ; an advertisement for this show is seen in the liner notes for Different Stages.
Dixon also confirms photographer Deborah Sammuels is the Joan of Arc character and that her relatives are the family on the right. However, this conflicts with information provided in the Rush biography Chemistry , which states "Hugh borrowed friends, neighbours and even his hairdresser's parents.
The film crew shown on the back cover actually shot the scene with motion picture film , and the album's front cover is a single frame from this film.
This was revealed to Rush concertgoers several years later, when the still image was projected on a large screen behind the band, and then suddenly came to life as a full-motion film sequence. All lyrics written by Neil Peart except where noted; all music composed by Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee except where noted.
The first pressings of Moving Pictures on compact disc were missing the first beat of "Tom Sawyer" by mistake. This was corrected in subsequent CD releases.
Moving Pictures was remastered again in by Andy VanDette for the "Sector" box sets, which re-released all of Rush's Mercury-era albums. It is included in the Sector 2 set. Moving Pictures was remastered for vinyl in as a part of the official "12 Months of Rush" promotion.
These remasters have significantly less dynamic range compression than the remasters and the "Sector" remasters by Andy VanDette. Sean Magee remastered the audio from an analog copy of the original digital master, using a kHz sample rate. Moving Pictures was re-released in a 2-disc 30th Anniversary set on April 5, The first disc contains the standard stereo mixes of the songs.
The "Vital Signs" music video is billed on the disc packaging as "previously unreleased", although it appeared on the Rush video compilation Through The Camera Eye and had been aired on MTV and other video outlets since the original release of Moving Pictures. Moving Pictures Rush album Moving Pictures. February 12, June 3, remastered CD.
Progressive rock hard rock. The Ontario Legislature, circa Retrieved 24 August Rolling Stone. With Permanent Waves, released on the first day of the new decade, Rush began to alter their style with some reggae and new wave elements to complement the hard rock core, a sound they expanded upon when production began on this album in late As a premiere rock drummer, Peart had long experimented with different styles and time signatures, and he continues to do so on Moving Pictures.
As Peart explained in an interview;. The track paints a lyrical and musical picture of the metro activity of New York City and London, with the title deriving from works by American author John Dos Passos.
To this point in their career, Rush had included a track of seven minutes or more in length on each of their first eight albums including Moving Pictures , but would not do so again for over 30 years. Another rarity on future Rush albums would be a pure instrumental.
Musically, this steady but complex song incorporates a heavy use of synths, differing time signatures and accessible melodies. A true classic jam, this complex song was recorded in one take and contains some of the best bass playing by Lee, who really shines on this track.
Moving Pictures was the first Rush album to top the Canadian album charts and nearly did the same in the US and the UK, reaching the Top 3 in both those countries. This was corrected in subsequent CD releases. A Mercury Records remaster was issued in Moving Pictures was remastered again in by Andy VanDette for the "Sector" box sets, which re-released all of Rush's Mercury-era albums.
It is included in the Sector 2 set. Moving Pictures was re-released in a 2-disc 30th Anniversary set on April 5, The first disc contains the standard stereo mixes of the songs. The "Vital Signs" music video is billed on the disc packaging as "previously unreleased," although it appeared on the Rush video compilation Through The Camera Eye and had been aired on MTV and other video outlets since the original release of Moving Pictures.
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