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Hold Your Fire
Studio album by Rush
Released	September 8, 1987
Recorded	January - April 1987
Genre	Hard rock
Length	50:21
Label	Anthem (Canada) Mercury (USA) Vertigo (Europe)
Producer	Peter Collins and Rush
Professional reviews
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Rush chronology
Power Windows (1985) Hold Your Fire (1987) A Show of Hands (1989)

Hold Your Fire is the 12th studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released in the fall of 1987 (see 1987 in music). The album was recorded at The Manor Studio in Oxfordshire, Ridge Farm Studio in Surrey, Air Studios in Montserrat and at McClear Place in Toronto.

In terms of songwriting, Rush continued to explore new territory with Hold Your Fire. The song “Tai Shan”, for example, has significant Eastern influences, and is a reference to Mount Tai, in the Shandong province. Til Tuesday bassist and vocalist Aimee Mann contributed the first vocals from an artist outside of Rush to "Time Stand Still" (she also appears in the Zbigniew Rybczyński-directed video for the song).

Hold Your Fire stalled at #13 (the first time a Rush studio album failed to reach the Top 10 since 1978's Hemispheres) and sold a million copies according to the band's then-label Mercury Records. However, the American RIAA has the album listed at Gold.^{[citation needed]}

Track listing

All lyrics written by Neil Peart except "Force Ten" by Peart and Pye Dubois, all music composed by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson.

Personnel

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• Geddy Lee – bass guitar, synthesizers, vocals
• Alex Lifeson – electric and acoustic guitars
• Neil Peart – drums, percussion
• Aimee Mann – additional vocals ("Time Stand Still"), laughter ("Force Ten")

• Andy Richards – additional keyboards
• Steven Margoshes – strings arranger and conductor
• Glen Wexler - photography
• Jim Barton - engineering
• Hugh Syme - art direction

Hold Your Fire marked the first time that Geddy Lee used the Roland D-50 keyboard.

Sales Certifications

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles

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 capital letters just to the left, mirroring the cover art of Retrospective II. All remasters from Moving Pictures through A Show of Hands are like this.
• Includes all the artwork that came with the original album.

References

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