A Farewell to Kings
Studio album by Rush
Released	September 1977
Recorded	June 1977 at Rockfield Studios in South Wales, UK
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	37:13
Label	Anthem Records (Canada) Mercury Records
Producer(s)	Rush and Terry Brown
Professional reviews
Rolling Stone link All Music Guide link
Rush chronology
All the World's a Stage (1976)	A Farewell to Kings (1977)	Hemispheres (1978)

Rush (A Farewell to Kings)

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A Farewell to Kings would become Rush's first US Gold selling album going Gold in almost two months of its release and eventually Platinum.

Geddy Lee played his bass lines on acoustic while writing them and came up with guitar lines also.

A Farewell to Kings

The name of the album itself is clearly derivative of Ernest Hemingway's classic novel A Farewell to Arms. It often deals lyrically with the theme of departure, and through departure, a sort of ascension to a state of better being; this can be said to echo the evolution of society from the days of medieval feudalism and autocratic monarchy, hence "a farewell to kings". Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. ... A Farewell to Arms is a semi-autobiographical novel written by Ernest Hemingway in 1929. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times. ... torin was here ... Autocracy is a form of government where unlimited power is held by a single individual. ... Forms of government Part of the Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A monarchy, from the Greek μονος, one, and αρχειν, to rule, is a form of government that has a monarch as head of state. ...

Xanadu

The lyrics for the epic "Xanadu" were inspired by the 56-line poem Kubla Khan, written about 1797 by British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lee, Lifeson, and Peart all worked overtime in this track, each utilizing a number of instruments to affect the performance. "Xanadu" also marks a rare occurrence of Geddy Lee on rhythm guitar. Other tracks with Lee on guitar include "A Passage to Bangkok" and "Resist" (live). Lyrics are the words in songs. ... Xanadu is a song recorded by the Canadian progressive rock trio Rush for their 1977 album A Farewell to Kings. ... Kubla Khan, or a Vision in a Dream. ... Samuel Taylor Coleridge(October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) (pronounced ) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. ... Exit. ... Rush in Rio is a live album by Canadian band Rush, released in 2003 (see 2003 in music). ...

Closer to the Heart

"Closer to the Heart" is one of Rush's most popular songs, seeing a fair bit of radio airplay during a time when the band was in the middle of its 'epic song' days. After a couple of near-misses earlier in the decade with Fly By Night and Bastille Day, Closer to the Heart finally landed them their first hit single in the United Kingdom, reaching #36 in the UK Singles Chart in February 1978. The acoustic guitar intro was written by Geddy Lee. The song has also been part of the set list on nearly every tour since 1977. The band dropped "Closer To The Heart" for the bulk of their recent tours in support of Vapor Trails and their 30^th Anniversary because, according to Peart, "we got sick of it." Vapor Trails is the seventeenth studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released in 2002 (see 2002 in music). ...

Cygnus X-1

The final track is another epic about a fictional space voyage to "Cygnus X-1". Inspiration for the story within the song was found in the observation of an X-ray source in the constellation Cygnus. Considered to be one of the most likely black hole candidates in the universe, Cygnus X-1 was discovered in the early 1970s by Canadian scientist Tom Bolton, using the facilities of the David Dunlap Observatory at the University of Toronto. The theme of the track would be continued in "Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres", the lead and title track of Rush's next album, Hemispheres. Rushs Cygnus X-1 Duology consists of Book I: The Voyage and Book II: Hemispheres. ... In the NATO phonetic alphabet, X-ray represents the letter X. An X-ray picture (radiograph) taken by Röntgen An X-ray is a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength approximately in the range of 5 pm to 10 nanometers (corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 PHz... Cygnus (Latin for swan) is a northern constellation. ... For other senses of this word, see black hole (disambiguation). ... Location of the X-ray source Cygnus X-1, which is widely accepted to be a 10 solar mass black hole orbiting a blue giant star. ... The David Dunlap Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, owned by the University of Toronto and operated by its Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. ... The University of Toronto (U of T) is a coeducational public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... Hemispheres is the sixth studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1978 (see 1978 in music). ...

Other Tracks

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"Madrigal" is perhaps one of the band's softest songs of this time period.

Track listing

Side 1

1. "A Farewell to Kings"(Peart) – 5:51
2. "Xanadu"(Peart) – 11:08

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1. "Closer to the Heart"(Peart/Talbot) – 2:53
2. "Cinderella Man" (Lee)– 4:21
3. "Madrigal" (Peart)– 2:35
4. "Cygnus X-1"(Peart) – 10:25

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Personnel

• Geddy Lee - bass guitar, twelve string guitar, Mini-Moog and bass pedal synthesizers, vocals
• Alex Lifeson - electric, acoustic and classical guitars, bass pedal synthesizer
• Neil Peart - drums, cowbells, orchestra bells, wind chimes, triangle, bell tree, vibra-slap, tubular bells, temple blocks

• Terry Brown - engineer
• Pat Moran - engineer
• Hugh Syme - art direction and graphics
• Yosh Inouye - cover photography
• Roger Stowell - sleeve photograph
• Fin Costello - liner photographs
• George Graves - mastering on original album
• Bob Ludwig - remastering

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Charts

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Remaster Details

A remaster was issued in 1997.

• The tray has a picture of star with man painting with THE RUSH REMASTERS printed in all caps just to the left. All remasters from Rush through to Permanent Waves are like this. This is just like the cover art of Retrospective I.
• The remaster has all of the original vinyl packaging including the back cover(all black with puppet strings) and inner sleeve photos of the band on stage and star with man logo reinstated(which were missing on the original CD issue).