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"Cygnus X-1" is a two-part song series by Canadian progressive rock band Rush. The first part, "Book I: The Voyage", is the last song on the 1977 album A Farewell to Kings, and the second part, "Book II: Hemispheres", is the first song on the following album, 1978's Hemispheres. Book I is ten minutes and twenty-five seconds long (10:25), and ...
"Armageddon The Battle of Heart and Mind" [a] is the fourth movement of "Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres", a suite by Canadian rock band Rush. "Hemispheres" was the side-long opening title track of their sixth studio album, released on October 28, 1978 by Anthem Records.
It is the final Rush album to feature a side-long track; the 18-minute opener "Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres" concludes the story initially left as a cliffhanger on A Farewell to Kings, and the Apollonian and Dionysian concept addressed in drummer Neil Peart's lyrics are represented on the cover artwork
Lyrics co-written by Neil Peart and Peter Talbot [32] "Cinderella Man" A Farewell to Kings: 1977 Inspired by Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. [33] "Madrigal" A Farewell to Kings: 1977 A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition "Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage" A Farewell to Kings: 1977 Inspired by a Time Magazine article on black holes. [34]
The album closes with "Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage", a science-fiction song that tells the story of an unnamed explorer who travels to the centre of Cygnus X-1, a real black hole, in a spaceship named the Rocinante, believing there may be something beyond it. Upon approaching the centre the protagonist loses control of the ship and is drawn ...
Hemispheres feels a little like the lesser sibling to A Farewell to Kings–more than half of the album is taken up by “Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres,” the sequel to Farewell’s closing ...
"Xanadu" is a song by the Canadian progressive rock band Rush from their 1977 album A Farewell to Kings. [1] It is approximately eleven minutes long, beginning with a five-minute-long instrumental section before transitioning to a narrative written by Neil Peart, which in turn was inspired by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan.
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