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Exit...Stage Left
Live album by Rush
Released	October 1981
Recorded	June 10-11, 1980 at The Apollo, Glasgow, Scotland; March 27, 1981 at The Forum, Montreal
Genre	Progressive rock, hard rock, heavy metal
Length	76:36
Label	Anthem (Canada), Mercury
Producer	Terry Brown
Professional reviews
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Rush chronology
Moving Pictures (1981) Exit...Stage Left (1981) Signals (1982)

Exit...Stage Left is a live album by Canadian band Rush, released in 1981. A video release with the same name, with slightly different content, was released in 1982 on VHS and later on Laserdisc, and in 2007 on DVD.

Track listing

All songs written by Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee and Neil Peart, except where noted.

Side one

1. "The Spirit of Radio" – 5:11
2. "Red Barchetta" – 6:46
3. "YYZ/drum solo" (Lee, Peart)/(Peart) – 7:43

Side two

1. "A Passage to Bangkok" – 3:45 *
2. "Closer to the Heart" (Lifeson, Lee, Peart, Peter Talbot) – 3:08
3. "Beneath, Between & Behind" (Lifeson, Peart) – 2:34
4. "Jacob's Ladder" – 8:46

Side three

1. "Broon's Bane" (Lifeson) – 1:37
2. "The Trees" – 4:50
3. "Xanadu" – 12:09

Side four

1. "Freewill" – 5:31
2. "Tom Sawyer" (Lifeson, Lee, Peart, Pye Dubois) – 4:59
3. "La Villa Strangiato" – 9:37

Tracks 1-3 and 8-13 of the original vinyl were recorded in Canada during the Moving Pictures tour, while tracks 4-7 were recorded in the UK during the Permanent Waves tour.

* The original CD issue did not include A Passage to Bangkok due to time constraints, as CDs could only hold 75 minutes at the time. The track did appear on the original LP, 8-track cartridge and cassette issues, and was later included in the remastered CD, when CD times had increased to 80 minutes.

Personnel

• Geddy Lee - bass and rhythm guitars, synthesizers, vocals
• Alex Lifeson - electric and acoustic guitars
• Neil Peart - drums, percussion

Notes

An item from each of Rush's previous eight studio album covers can be seen on the cover of this live album. The owl from Fly by Night flies above Apollo, the man in the suit from Hemispheres, who stands next to the woman from Permanent Waves. The puppet king from A Farewell to Kings sits atop a box stenciled with the "Rush" logo from Rush. Next to him is a painting of the Caress of Steel album cover, held by one of the movers from Moving Pictures, with another mover standing behind. Next to this is Dionysus, the nude man from Hemispheres. Behind this scene, the starman from 2112 hangs in the background, next to an "EXIT" sign. This entire scene is on the left side of the stage, thus "Exit...Stage Left" which is of a photo of a concert in Buffalo, New York at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. "Exit...Stage Left" was voted 9th best live album of all time in a poll by Classic Rock Magazine in 2004^[1]

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles

Remaster Details

A remaster was issued in 1997.

• The tray has a picture of three fingerprints, light blue, pink, and lime green (left to right) with THE RUSH REMASTERS printed in all caps just to the left. All remasters from Moving Pictures through to Hold Your Fire are like this. This is just like the cover art of Retrospective II.
• 1. Includes the track A Passage to Bangkok which was left off the original CD issue due to time constraints, as CDs could only hold 75 minutes at the time, but later increased to 80 minutes. The track also appears in the LP, 8-track cartridge and cassette issues.

The vinyl LP version had two LP's with all songs included.

References

1. ^ BBC News Entertainment Thin Lizzy top live album poll Accessed 16 April 2006.