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A Farewell to Kings

Index A Farewell to Kings

A Farewell to Kings is the fifth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on September 1, 1977 by Anthem Records in Canada and by Mercury Records in the United States. [1]

61 relations: Acoustic guitar, Advision Studios, Alex Lifeson, All the World's a Stage (album), AllMusic, Amazon (company), Angel (band), Anthem Records, Art director, Bass guitar, Bass pedals, Bell tree, Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Bob Ludwig, Classical guitar, Closer to the Heart, Cygnus X-1 (song series), Dream Theater, Drum kit, Dynamic range compression, Electric guitar, Eminem, Geddy Lee, Glockenspiel, Graphic arts, Hemispheres (Rush album), Hugh Syme, Kansas (band), Ken Thomas (record producer), London, Mercury Records, Minimoog, Mojo (magazine), Neil Peart, Ninja Sex Party, Official Charts Company, Photography, PopMatters, Progressive rock, Q (magazine), Retrospective I, Robert Christgau, Rock music, Rockfield Studios, Rolling Stone, Rush (band), Singing, Temple block, Terry Brown (record producer), ..., The Rolling Stone Album Guide, Triangle (musical instrument), Tubular bells, Twelve-string guitar, UK Albums Chart, Under the Covers (Ninja Sex Party album), Uriah Heep (band), Vibraslap, Wales, Wind chime, Xanadu (Rush song). Expand index (11 more) »

Acoustic guitar

An acoustic guitar is a guitar that produces sound acoustically by transmitting the vibration of the strings to the air—as opposed to relying on electronic amplification (see electric guitar).

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Advision Studios

Advision Studios was a recording studio in Fitzrovia, Central London.

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Alex Lifeson

Alexandar Zivojinovich, (born 27 August 1953), better known by his stage name Alex Lifeson, is a Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist of the Canadian rock band Rush.

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All the World's a Stage (album)

All the World's a Stage is a double live album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1976.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994.

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Angel (band)

Angel is an American rock band from Washington, D.C., United States, formed in the mid-1970s by Punky Meadows and Mickie Jones.

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Anthem Records

Anthem Records is an independent record label based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Art director

Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Bass pedals

Bass pedals are an electronic musical instrument with foot-operated pedal keyboard with a range of one or more octaves.

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Bell tree

A bell tree (often confused with the mark tree) is a percussion instrument, consisting of vertically nested inverted metal bowls.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Bob Ludwig

Robert C. Ludwig (born c. 1945) is an American mastering engineer.

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Classical guitar

The classical guitar (also known as concert guitar, classical acoustic, nylon-string guitar, or Spanish guitar) is the member of the guitar family used in classical music.

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Closer to the Heart

"Closer to the Heart" is a single by Rush, released in 1977, from the album A Farewell to Kings.

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Cygnus X-1 (song series)

"Cygnus X-1" is a two-part song series by Canadian progressive rock band Rush.

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Dream Theater

Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Petrucci, John Myung and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Dynamic range compression

Dynamic range compression (DRC) or simply compression is an audio signal processing operation that reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds thus reducing or compressing an audio signal's dynamic range.

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Electric guitar

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals.

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Eminem

Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), known professionally as Eminem (often stylized as EMINƎM), is an American rapper, songwriter, record producer, record executive, and actor.

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Geddy Lee

Geddy Lee Weinrib, (born Gary Lee Weinrib; July 29, 1953), known professionally as Geddy Lee, is a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush.

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Glockenspiel

A glockenspiel (or, Glocken: bells and Spiel: set) is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano.

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Graphic arts

A category of fine art, graphic art covers a broad range of visual artistic expression, typically two-dimensional, i.e. produced on a flat surface.

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Hemispheres (Rush album)

Hemispheres is the sixth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in October 1978 by Anthem Records.

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Hugh Syme

Hugh Syme is a Canadian Juno Award-winning graphic artist and member of the who is best known for his artwork and cover concepts for rock and metal bands.

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Kansas (band)

Kansas is an American rock band that became popular in the 1970s initially on album-oriented rock charts and later with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind".

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Ken Thomas (record producer)

Kenneth Vaughan "Ken" Thomas is an English record producer, recording engineer, and mixing engineer.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Mercury Records

Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Minimoog

The Minimoog is a monophonic analog synthesizer, invented by Bill Hemsath and Robert Moog.

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Mojo (magazine)

Mojo is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Neil Peart

Neil Ellwood Peart, (born September 12, 1952), is a Canadian-American author and retired musician, best known as the drummer and primary lyricist for the rock band Rush.

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Ninja Sex Party

Ninja Sex Party (NSP) is an American musical comedy duo consisting of singer Dan Avidan and keyboardist Brian Wecht.

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company, also referred to as Official Charts (previously known as the Chart Information Network (CIN) and The Official UK Charts Company) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the UK Singles Downloads Chart and the UK Album Downloads Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video charts.

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Photography

Photography is the science, art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.

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PopMatters

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

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Q (magazine)

Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Retrospective I

Retrospective I: 1974 to 1980 is a compilation album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1997 (see 1997 in music).

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rockfield Studios

Rockfield Studios is a recording studio just outside the village of Rockfield, Monmouthshire near Monmouth in Wales.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Rush (band)

Rush was a Canadian rock band comprising Geddy Lee (bass, vocals, keyboards), Alex Lifeson (guitars) and Neil Peart (drums, percussion, lyrics).

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Temple block

The temple block is a percussion instrument originating in eastern Asia, where it is used in religious ceremonies.

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Terry Brown (record producer)

Terry Brown is a British record producer involved in a variety of work, but most noted for his involvement with the Canadian rock band Rush and the English pop rock band Cutting Crew.

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The Rolling Stone Album Guide

The Rolling Stone Album Guide, previously known as The Rolling Stone Record Guide, is a book that contains professional music reviews written and edited by staff members from Rolling Stone magazine.

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Triangle (musical instrument)

The triangle is an idiophone type of musical instrument in the percussion family.

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Tubular bells

Tubular bells (also known as chimes) are musical instruments in the percussion family.

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Twelve-string guitar

The 12-string guitar is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a richer, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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Under the Covers (Ninja Sex Party album)

Under the Covers is the fourth studio album by American comedy duo Ninja Sex Party, and their first cover album.

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Uriah Heep (band)

Uriah Heep are an English rock band formed in London in 1969.

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Vibraslap

The vibraslap is a percussion instrument consisting of a piece of stiff wire (bent into a U-shape) connecting a wood ball to a hollow box of wood with metal “teeth” inside.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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Wind chime

Wind chimes are a type of percussion instrument constructed from suspended tubes, rods, bells or other objects that are often made of metal or wood.

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Xanadu (Rush song)

"Xanadu" is a song by the Canadian rock band Rush from their 1977 album A Farewell to Kings.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Farewell_to_Kings

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