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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 ...
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
[2] Among the bonus tracks on the third disc of the CD release is a second performance of the song featuring violinist Jonathan Dinklage, a member of the string ensemble that had backed Rush during their Clockwork Angels Tour. Best Buy sold two deluxe edition box sets of R40 Live: CD/DVD and CD/Blu-ray.
Mountain King Studios (formerly known as Cygnus Studios) is a computer game company located in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded by game programmer / game designer Scott Host. [ 1 ] In addition to the development of Raptor: Call of the Shadows , Cygnus also collaborated with Apogee Software on a number of their games.
The Studio Albums 1989–2007 is a box set by the Canadian rock band Rush. It contains the band's seven studio albums released from 1989 to 2007 and was released on 7 CDs on September 30, 2013. It contains the band's seven studio albums released from 1989 to 2007 and was released on 7 CDs on September 30, 2013.
Clockwork Angels is the nineteenth and final studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on June 8, 2012, on Roadrunner Records.During the band's year-and-a-half break following its Snakes & Arrows Tour, the group decided to write a new studio album.
The band wanted each song on Fly by Night to show a different side to their writing and playing, which resulted in an album of varied styles. [3] [10] As Peart was a keen reader, he became the group's primary lyricist, which suited Lifeson and Lee because they preferred to write music.
Cygnus X-1 is an X-ray source in the constellation Cygnus. Cygnus X-1 may also refer to: "Cygnus X-1" (song series), a two-part song by the band Rush "Cygnus X-1", a song by Bethany Curve from the album Gold