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 | September 1986 – April 1987 | |||
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The Manor Studio, Oxfordshire; Ridge Farm Studio, Surrey; AIR Studios, Montserrat; McClear Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| Length | 50:21 | |||
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Anthem (Canada) Atlantic (Japan) Epic/Sony (Japan) Mercury Vertigo (United Kingdom) |
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| Producer | Rush, Peter Collins | |||
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| Allmusic |   |
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| Metal Storm | (7.7/10) |
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Hold Your Fire is the twelfth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on September 8, 1987. It was recorded at The Manor Studio in Oxfordshire, Ridge Farm Studio in Surrey, Air Studios in Montserrat and McClear Place in Toronto.Hold Your Fire was the last Rush studio album released outside Canada by PolyGram/Mercury.
Rush continued to explore new songwriting territory in Hold Your Fire. 'Til Tuesday bassist and vocalist Aimee Mann contributed vocals to "Open Secrets" and "Time Stand Still", appearing in the Zbigniew Rybczyński-directed video for the latter.
The album was not as commercially successful as most of the band's releases of the 1980s, only peaking at #13 on the Billboard charts, the lowest debut for a Rush album since Hemispheres. However, it did eventually go gold.
After Rush's 1986 Power Windows tour ended, the band members took the summer off to spend more time with their families. A few months passed, and the group decided to start getting back into writing material.Neil Peart began writing lyrics in a cottage behind a still lake in early September. Meanwhile, Geddy Lee started to compose on his keyboard setup controlled on a Macintosh computer using software called Digital Performer, which would be useful for both the writing and production stages, and Alex Lifeson was doing experimental tapes at home. Peart also used the Mac to write some of the lyrics for the album. Peart wanted to do something in the same vein as Power Windows, this time working around the theme of time. However, after writing some lyrics for the first song he wrote for the album, "Time Stand Still", he started to create more material that would turn the theme into "Instinct", which was the reason for titling the album Hold Your Fire. In an afternoon later that month, Peart and Lee together showed what they had been working on, and they also discussed a few lyrical ideas they weren't able to write on paper, which would be included in "Mission", "Open Secrets" and "Turn the Page".
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