Hold Your Fire - Definition and Overview

Hold Your Fire
LP & CD by Rush
Released	September 8 1987
Recorded	Jan.-April 1987
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	50 min 21 s
Record label	Mercury Records
Producers	Peter Collins and Rush
Professional reviews
RollingStone	2/5	link (http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/cd/review.asp?aid=61043)
ARTISTdirect	3/5	link (http://www.artistdirect.com/store/artist/album/0,,157494,00.html)
Rush Chronology
Power Windows (1985)	Hold Your Fire (1987)	A Show of Hands (1989)

Hold Your Fire is the twelveth studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1987 (see 1987 in music). The album was recorded at The Manor in Oxfordshire, Ridge Farm Studio in Surrey, Air Studios in Montserrat and at McClear Place in Toronto.

Track listing

1. "Force Ten" - 4:31
2. "Time Stand Still" - 5:09
3. "Open Secrets" - 5:38
4. "Second Nature" - 4:36
5. "Prime Mover" - 5:19
6. "Lock and Key" - 5:09
7. "Mission" - 5:16
8. "Turn the Page" - 4:55
9. "Tai Shan" - 4:15
10. "High Water" - 5:33

All music by Lee and Lifeson with lyrics by Peart.

Personnel

• Geddy Lee - bass guitar, synthesizers, vocals
• Alex Lifeson - electric and acoustic guitars
• Neil Peart - drums, percussion
• Aimee Mann - additional vocals ( Track 2 )

• Andy Richards - additional keyboards
• Steven Margoshes - strings arranger and conductor