This Day in Music History: Rush/Hold Your Fire (09/08)

Hold Your Fire is the 12th studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on this day in 1987. The album was not as commercially successful as most of the band's releases of the 1980s, only peaking at #13 on the Billboard charts, the lowest debut for a Rush album since Hemispheres. However, it did eventually go gold.

Rush continued to explore new songwriting territory in Hold Your Fire. 'Til Tuesday bassist and vocalist Aimee Mann contributed vocals to "Open Secrets" and "Time Stand Still", appearing in the video for the latter.

The singles: "Time Stand Still" #3 US Mainstream Rock (#41 UK); "Force Ten" #3 US Mainstream Rock; "Lock and Key" #16 US Mainstream Rock; "Prime Mover" #43 UK.

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