Closer to the Heart

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"Closer to the Heart"

Single by Rush
from the album A Farewell to Kings
Released	January 1, 1977
Recorded	June 1977 at Rockfield Studios in South Wales, UK
Genre	Progressive Rock
Length	2:53
Label	Mercury Records
Rush singles chronology
"Fly By Night" (Live) (1976)	"Closer to the Heart" (1977)	"Cinderella Man" (1977)

"Tom Sawyer" (Live) (1981)	"Closer to the Heart" (Live) (1981)	"New World Man" (1982)

Closer to The Heart is a single by Rush, released 1977. It was the first Rush song to have an external co-writer, namely Peter Talbot, a friend of Neil Peart. The B side is unusually larger than the A side; the B side consists of one track which is shorter than the others but two which exceed the length of Closer to the Heart by over a minute.

On their live albums A Show of Hands and Different Stages Rush appended several minutes of jam type playing at the end of the performance of this song.

[edit] A Side

Closer to The Heart - 2:53 (Lee/Lifeson/Peart/Talbot)

[edit] B side

Bastille Day - 4:37 (Lee/Lifeson/Peart)
Anthem - 4:10 (Lee/Lifeson/Peart)
The Temples of Syrinx - 2:13 (Lee/Lifeson/Peart)

Discography
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