| Hold Your Fire | ||||
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| Studio album by Rush | ||||
| Released | September 8, 1987 June 3, 1997 (remastered CD) |
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| Recorded | The Manor Studio, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire; Ridge Farm Studio, Rusper, Surrey; Air Studios, Montserrat; McClear Place Toronto, Canada, October 1986 - April 1987 | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, synthpop | |||
| Length | 50:21 | |||
| Label | Anthem (Canada) Mercury (USA) Vertigo (Europe) |
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| Producer | Peter Collins and Rush | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | [1] |
| Rolling Stone | [2] |
| Metal Storm | [3] |
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Hold Your Fire is the 12th studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released in the fall of 1987 (see 1987 in music). The album was recorded at The Manor Studio in Oxfordshire, Ridge Farm Studio in Surrey, Air Studios in Montserrat and at McClear Place in Toronto.[4]
Rush continued to explore new songwriting territory in Hold Your Fire. "Tai Shan", for example, is influenced by classical Chinese music, and its title is a reference to Mount Tai in China's Shandong province, which lyricist Neil Peart discovered during his bicycle trip in China.[5] 'Til Tuesday bassist and vocalist Aimee Mann contributed vocals to "Time Stand Still" and also appears in the Zbigniew Rybczyński-directed video for the song.[5]
Hold Your Fire marked the first time that Geddy Lee used the Roland D-50 keyboard.
Hold Your Fire stalled at No. 13 in the Billboard 200 album chart, the first time a Rush studio album failed to reach the Top 10 since 1978's Hemispheres.[6] It sold a million copies according to the band's then-international label Mercury Records; this was the band's last studio album for PolyGram before moving to Atlantic outside Canada. However, the American RIAA has the album listed only as Gold, for selling more than 500,000 copies, but less than a million.[7]
Contents |
All lyrics written by Neil Peart except "Force Ten" by Peart and Pye Dubois, all music composed by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson[4].
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Force Ten" | 4:31 |
| 2. | "Time Stand Still" | 5:09 |
| 3. | "Open Secrets" | 5:38 |
| 4. | "Second Nature" | 4:36 |
| 5. | "Prime Mover" | 5:19 |
| 6. | "Lock and Key" | 5:09 |
| 7. | "Mission" | 5:16 |
| 8. | "Turn the Page" | 4:55 |
| 9. | "Tai Shan" | 4:15 |
| 10. | "High Water" | 5:33 |
Album
| Year | Chart | Position |
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| 1987 | Billboard 200 (North America)[6] | 13 |
| 1987 | RPM100 Albums (Canada)[8] | 12 |
| 1987 | UK Album Chart [9] | 10 |
| 1987 | German Album Chart[10] | 34 |
| 1987 | Swedish Album Chart[11] | 21 |
| 1987 | GfK Dutch Album Chart[12] | 40 |
| Information |
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"Time Stand Still"
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"Force Ten"
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"Lock and Key"
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"Prime Mover"
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| Country | Organization | Sales |
| U.S. | RIAA | Gold (500,000)[7] |
| Canada | CRIA | Platinum (80,000)[14] |
| UK | BPI | Silver (60,000)[15] |
A remaster was issued in 1997.[4]
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