Moving Pictures

RUSH – Canadian Rockers Released One Of Their Most Popular Albums ‘MOVING PICTURES’ Today 45 Years Ago

Posted on by JL

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.”

– SINGLE –

– ALBUM –


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Instagram – Short Bio – All Albums

RUSH – Deluxe Anniversary Reissue For 40th Birthday Of ‘MOVING PICTURES’ Album

Posted on by JL

8 June 2022

Band: RUSH
Inconic prog-rockers from Toronto, Canada
Active: 1968-2018 / 19 studio LPs

Anniversary Reissue: MOVING PICTURES

It was their eighth LP and was released in February 1981. A reissue in honor of its
40th anniversary in a sumptuous multidisc/multi-LP set—mastered concision is out
now. Order info here.

Pitchfork : “In 1981, Rush fully transformed from a prog-rock trio to a mainstay of
classic rock. A 40th-anniversary reissue of Moving Pictures captures the band at their
absolute peak… Thanks to its tautness, conceptual integrity, and the fortuitous manner
in which their career ambitions and radio programmer taste intersected, Moving Pictures functioned as much a harbinger of a new artistic era as David Bowie’s Young Americans.
It peaked at No. 3 in America, their best chart position to date; the RIAA would certify it
five-times platinum.” Full review here. Score: 9/10.

Singles/clips: Limelight / Tom Sawyer

– LIMELIGHT –

– TOM SAWYER –

Full reisssue streaming on Spotify

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Original cover artwork 1981

RUSH: Website – All Albums