Grace Under Pressure Tour (album)
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''Grace Under Pressure Tour'' is a
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, first released as the bonus CD of ''
Rush Replay X 3 ''Rush Replay X 3'' is a DVD box set of three separate filmed concert presentations by the Canadian band Rush, released on June 13, 2006. The three shows presented are '' Exit... Stage Left'', '' Grace Under Pressure Tour'', and ''A Show of Hands' ...
''. Originally, Grace Under Pressure Tour was released in video format on
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was released in 1988. The video was then remastered in surround-sound (5.1) for the 2006 ''Rush Replay X 3'' DVD box set, which includes a bonus CD containing the entire audio portion. The 2006 initial release of ''Rush Replay X 3'' was a limited-edition item sold by
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only. The CD included with this version contains four bonus tracks not found on subsequent releases of the box set: "
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" from the '' Exit...Stage Left video'', and "
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" from the ''A Show of Hands'' video. The ''Grace Under Pressure Tour'' CD received a standalone release on August 11, 2009. It features the same cover art as the 1984 studio album ''Grace Under Pressure'', but with "1984 Tour" written in the bottom left hand corner. Like the DVD version, the CD includes a reproduction of the original tour book.


Track listing

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New World Man "New World Man" is a hit single from the 1982 album '' Signals'' by Canadian rock band Rush. The song was the last and most quickly composed song on the album, stemming from a suggestion by then-Rush producer Terry Brown to even out the lengths ...
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Red Sector A "Red Sector A" is a song by Rush that provides a first-person account of a nameless protagonist living in an unspecified prison camp setting. "Red Sector A" first appeared on the band's 1984 album '' Grace Under Pressure''. Lyricist Neil Peart h ...
" # "
Closer to the Heart "Closer to the Heart" is a song by Canadian rock band Rush. It was released in November 1977 as the lead single from their fifth studio album ''A Farewell to Kings''. It was the first Rush song to feature a non-member as a songwriter in Peter Tal ...
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Tom Sawyer Thomas Sawyer () is the titular character of the Mark Twain novel ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884), ''Tom Sawyer Abroad'' (1894), and ''Tom Sawyer, Dete ...
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Limelight Limelight (also known as Drummond light or calcium light)James R. Smith (2004). ''San Francisco's Lost Landmarks'', Quill Driver Books. is a type of stage lighting once used in theatres and music halls. An intense illumination is created when ...
" (bonus track) # "
Closer to the Heart "Closer to the Heart" is a song by Canadian rock band Rush. It was released in November 1977 as the lead single from their fifth studio album ''A Farewell to Kings''. It was the first Rush song to feature a non-member as a songwriter in Peter Tal ...
" (bonus track) # "
The Spirit of Radio "The Spirit of Radio" is a song by Canadian rock band Rush, released from their 1980 album ''Permanent Waves''. The song's name was inspired by Toronto-based radio station CFNY-FM's slogan. It was significant in the growing popularity of the b ...
" (bonus track) # "
Tom Sawyer Thomas Sawyer () is the titular character of the Mark Twain novel ''The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'' (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: ''Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' (1884), ''Tom Sawyer Abroad'' (1894), and ''Tom Sawyer, Dete ...
" (bonus track) Tracks 13–16 appear only on the CD copies sold by Best Buy in 2006, during the initial release of ''Rush Replay X3''. They are not included on the 2009 release.


See also

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Grace Under Pressure (Rush album) ''Grace Under Pressure'' is the tenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released April 12, 1984 on Anthem Records. After touring for the band's previous album, ''Signals'' (1982), came to an end in mid-1983, Rush started work on a follow ...
*
Grace Under Pressure Tour (video) ''Grace Under Pressure Tour'' is a concert released on Betamax, VHS, Laserdisc, and DVD by the Canadian band Rush. It documents a live concert performance by the band on their 1984 tour in support of the studio album '' Grace Under Pressure''. R ...


References

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