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MOVING PICTURES - WILL ROMANO TASCHENBUCH

Moving Pictures takes a novel historical approach to the making and recording of Rush's album
by the same name. This 1981 release was a landmark record  not only for Rush  but also for the
entirety of progressive rock.There's nothing else like it in the Rush catalog. Permanent Waves
and Hemispheres were important releases in their evolution as a progressive band  but neither
provided the necessary commercial firepower to blast the Canadian trio into the stratosphere of
rock stardom. Moving Pictures  with its thematic work and positioning as the antithesis of a
concept record  balanced opposing creative sensibilities  garnered the attention of radio
programmers across North America  and sold millions of copies around the globe.As the title of
the record suggests  each track projects unique filmic properties  allowing the collective work
to escape into the realm of the audiovisual. Unparalleled in the band's recorded output  Moving
Pictures boasts multisensory qualities  such as a snarling synth portal opening the record (Tom
Sawyer)  pulse-quickening cyclical patterns corkscrewing through the genre fluid Vital Signs  a
spine-tingling sci-fi thrill ride thinly masking social commentary (Red Barchetta)  technically
precise musical jousting amid time signature changes (YYZ)  chilling glimpses of a hellish 
torch-lit mob haunting Witch Hunt  the wide-screen dual optics of The Camera Eye  and a
ferocious guitar tone taking a bite out of fame (Limelight). Put simply  the seven-track
offering solidified the band's global appeal and continues to inspire musicians of all walks of
life?forty years after its release. This is its story.

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