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"The Big Money" is a song by Canadian rock band Rush, originally released on their 1985 album Power Windows. It peaked at #45 on the Billboard Hot 100 [ 2 ] and #4 on the Mainstream Rock chart , and has been included on several compilation albums, such as Retrospective II and The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits 1974-1987 .
"The Big Money" Power Windows: 1985 Inspired by the U.S.A. trilogy book The Big Money written by John Dos Passos. [55] "Grand Designs" Power Windows: 1985 Inspired by the District of Columbia trilogy book The Grand Design written by John Dos Passos. [56] "Manhattan Project" Power Windows: 1985
The 9:37 song, the fourth and final track of the album, was Rush's first entirely instrumental piece. The multi-part piece was inspired by a dream guitarist Alex Lifeson had, and the music in these sections correspond to the occurrences in his dream. The opening segment was played on a nylon-string classical guitar.
It was during sessions at The Manor where Rush brought in musician Andy Richards to play additional synthesizers and assist in their programming. His rig consisted of a PPG Wave 2.3 synthesizer connected to a Roland Super Jupiter module through a MIDI system, a Yamaha QX-1 digital sequencer, and a Roland Jupiter-8 and Yamaha DX7 synthesizer. [ 8 ]
Geddy Lee Weinrib (/ ˈ ɡ ɛ d i /; born Gary Lee Weinrib, July 29, 1953) is a Canadian musician, best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the rock group Rush. [4]
Rush Through Time is a compilation album by Rush, released in Europe as a picture disc only in 1979. [6]In essence, it is a European issue of the Mercury US DJ-Promo disc Everything Your Listeners Ever Wanted To Hear By Rush But You Were Afraid To Play from 1976, but replacing two songs from Caress of Steel with two songs from A Farewell to Kings.
Lifeson says the guitar solo in the song is a "really hard solo to play", describing it as "frenetic and exciting" and "one of the most ambitious pieces of music Rush has ever done". [15] In his book Rush, Rock Music and the Middle Class: Dreaming in Middletown, Chris McDonald describes Lifeson's play as a "searing, rapid-fire" guitar solo. [16]
Grace Under Pressure is the tenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released April 12, 1984, on Anthem Records. [5] After touring for the band's previous album, Signals (1982), came to an end in mid-1983, Rush started work on a follow-up in August.