Significant longplayers from yesteryear

12 February 2026

Canadian prog rockers RUSH started their musical enterprise
way back in 1968. Forty-seven years and 19 LPs later they called
it a day.

But 10 years later, in 2015, they returned to tour. And last year they celebrated
the 50th anniversary of their-self titled debut LP, which got a deluxe reissue
treatment.

Today marks the 45th birthday of their 8th album
MOVING PICTURES, released on 12 February 1981.

It was a big hit, topping the Canadian charts and reaching #3 in both the US and UK.

Promo picture

PopMatters wrote in retrospective review: “Moving Pictures is, without any question, not only Rush’s masterpiece but one of those rare albums that epitomizes an era. It represents both a culmination and a progression: the peak of the band’s development as well as the blueprint for Rush’s subsequent work.”

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