Exit...Stage Left
Live album by Rush
Released	October 1981
Recorded	1980-1981
Genre	Progressive rock Hard rock
Length	76:36
Label	Anthem Records (Canada) Mercury Records
Producer	Terry Brown
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone link
Rush chronology
Moving Pictures (1981) Exit...Stage Left (1981) Signals (1982)

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Track listing

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1. "The Spirit of Radio" – 5:11
2. "Red Barchetta" – 6:46
3. "YYZ/drum solo" (Lee, Peart)/(Peart) – 7:43
4. "A Passage to Bangkok" – 3:45
5. "Closer to the Heart" (Lifeson, Lee, Peart, Peter Talbot) – 3:08
6. "Beneath, Between & Behind" (Lifeson, Peart) – 2:34
7. "Jacob's Ladder" – 8:46
8. "Broon's Bane" (Lifeson) – 1:37
9. "The Trees" – 4:50
10. "Xanadu" – 12:09
11. "Freewill" – 5:31
12. "Tom Sawyer" (Lifeson, Lee, Peart, Pye Dubois) – 4:59
13. "La Villa Strangiato" – 9:37

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Personnel

• Geddy Lee - bass and rhythm guitars, synthesizers, vocals
• Alex Lifeson - electric and acoustic guitars
• Neil Peart - drums, percussion

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Notes

An item from each of Rush's previous eight studio album covers can be seen on the cover of this live album. The owl from Fly by Night flies above Apollo, the man in the suit from Hemispheres, who stands next to the woman from Permanent Waves. The puppet king from A Farewell to Kings sits atop a box stenciled with the "Rush" logo from Rush. Next to him is a painting of the Caress of Steel album cover, held by one of the movers from Moving Pictures, with another mover standing behind. Next to this is Dionysus, the nude man from Hemispheres. Behind this scene, the starman from 2112 hangs in the background, next to an "EXIT" sign. This entire scene is on the left side of the stage, thus "Exit...Stage Left" which is of a photo of a concert in Buffalo. "Exit...Stage Left" was voted 9th best live album of all time in a poll by Classic Rock Magazine in 2004^[1] For other uses, see Owl (disambiguation). ... Rush (1974) Fly by Night is the second studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released in February 1975 (see 1975 in music). ... For other uses, see Apollo (disambiguation). ... Hemispheres is the sixth studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1978 (see 1978 in music). ... Permanent Waves is the seventh studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released January 1, 1980 (see 1980 in music). ... Rush (A Farewell to Kings) A Farewell to Kings is the fifth studio album by the Canadian band Rush, released in 1977 (see 1977 in music). ... This article is about the album by Rush. ... Caress of Steel was the third album by Rush, released in 1975. ... Moving Pictures is the eighth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1981 (see 1981 in music). ... This article is about the ancient deity. ... Hemispheres is the sixth studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1978 (see 1978 in music). ... For the year 2112, see 22nd century. ...

Charts

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Singles

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Remaster Details

A remaster was issued in 1997.

• The tray has a picture of three fingerprints, light blue, pink, and lime green (left to right) with THE RUSH REMASTERS printed in all caps just to the left. All remasters from Moving Pictures through to Hold Your Fire are like this. This is just like the cover art of Retrospective II.
• 1. Includes the track A Passage to Bangkok which was left off the original CD issue due to time constraints, as CDs could only hold 75 minutes at the time, but later increased to 80 minutes. The track also appears in the LP, 8-track cartridge and cassette issues.

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References

1. ^ BBC News Entertainment Thin Lizzy top live album poll Accessed 16 April 2006.