Hold Your Fire

Hold Your Fire
Hold Your Fire
Studio album by Rush
Released September 8, 1987
June 3, 1997 (remastered CD)
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)
Producer Peter Collins and Rush
Rush chronology
Power Windows
(1985)
Hold Your Fire
(1987)
A Show of Hands
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars[1]
Rolling Stone 2/5 stars[2]
Metal Storm 7.7/10 stars[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. 'Til Tuesday bassist and vocalist Aimee Mann contributed vocals to "Time Stand Still" (she also appears in the Zbigniew Rybczyński-directed video for the song).

Hold Your Fire marked the first time that Geddy Lee used the Roland D-50 keyboard.

Hold Your Fire stalled at No. 13 (the first time a Rush studio album failed to reach the Top 10 since 1978's Hemispheres)[5] and sold a million copies according to the band's then-international label Mercury Records (this is the band's last studio album for PolyGram before moving to Atlantic outside Canada). However, the American RIAA has the album listed as Gold.[6]

Contents

Track listing

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

Personnel

Band Members

Additional musicians

  • Aimee Mann – additional vocals
  • Andy Richards – additional keyboards, synthesizers programming
  • Steven Margoshes – strings arranger and conductor
  • The William Faery Engineering Brass Band arranged and conducted by Andrew Jackman

Production

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)[5]

Year Chart Position
1987 The Billboard 200 13

Singles

Information
"Time Stand Still"
  • Released: October 19, 1987
  • Written by: Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson & Neil Peart
  • Produced by: Peter Collins and Rush
  • Chart positions: #3 US Mainstream Rock[7]
"Force Ten"
  • Released:
  • Written by: Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Neil Peart & Pye Dubois
  • Produced by: Peter Collins and Rush
  • Chart positions: #3 US Mainstream Rock[7]
"Lock and Key"
  • Released:
  • Written by: Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson & Neil Peart
  • Produced by: Peter Collins and Rush
  • Chart positions: #16 US Mainstream Rock[7]
"Prime Mover"
  • Released: April 11, 1988
  • Written by: Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson & Neil Peart
  • Produced by: Peter Collins and Rush
  • Chart positions:

Sales certifications

Country Organization Sales
U.S. RIAA Gold (500,000)[6]
Canada CRIA Platinum (80,000)[8]
UK BPI Silver (60,000)[9]

Remaster details

A remaster was issued in 1997.[4]

  • The tray has a picture of three fingerprints, light blue, pink, and lime green (left to right) with "The Rush Remasters" printed in all capital letters just to the left, mirroring the cover art of Retrospective II. All remasters from Moving Pictures through A Show of Hands are like this.
  • Includes all the artwork that came with the original album.

References


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