Limelight (song)
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| Single by Rush | ||
| from the album Moving Pictures | ||
| Released | February 28, 1981 | |
| Recorded | October - November 1980 at Le Studio, Morin Heights, Quebec | |
| Genre | Progressive Rock | |
| Length | 4:23 | |
| Label | Mercury Records | |
| Producer(s) | Rush and Terry Brown | |
| Rush singles chronology | ||
| "Tom Sawyer" (1981) |
"Limelight" (1981) |
"Vital Signs" (1981) |
"Limelight" is a song by the Canadian progressive rock band Rush. It first appeared on the 1981 album Moving Pictures. Written by Rush's primary lyricist Neil Peart, "Limelight" expresses Peart's discomfort with Rush's success and being in the "limelight."
Note the twenty-plus time signature changes throughout the song, including the use of 4/4, 7/4, 6/8 and 3/4. The song may have come about by combining a variety of independent rhythm fragments. The studio origins of this song would be a wonderful learning tool. It's intriguing that, regardless, the song flows along beautifully. Limelight also employs a number of Shakespearian phrases.
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"Limelight was probably more of Neil's song than a lot of the songs on that album in the sense that his feelings about being in the limelight and his difficulty with coming to grips with fame and autograph seekers and a sudden lack of privacy and sudden demands on his time... he was having a very difficult time dealing with. I mean we all were, but I think he was having the most difficulty of the three of us adjusting; in the sense that I think he's more sensitive to more things than Alex and I are, it's harder for him to deal with those interruptions on his personal space and his desire to be alone. Being very much a person who needs that solitude, to have someone coming up to you constantly and asking for your autograph is a major interruption in your own little world. I guess in the one sense that we're a little bit like misfits in the fact that we've chosen this profession that has all this extreme hype and this sort of self-hyping world that we've chosen to live in, and we don't feel comfortable really in that kind of role". -- Geddy Lee from In the Studio with Redbeard for the making of Moving Pictures, 1988.
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