Artist: RUSH
Album: A FAREWELL TO KINGS 40TH ANNIV. DELUXE EDIT. (3CD DIGI)

Release date: 1977/ 2017
EAN/UPS: 0602557886924
Media type: CD

A Farewell to Kings—40th Anniversary second configuration will be released in a three-CD Deluxe Edition, with the newly reasserted A Farewell to Kings album, the Hammersmith Odeon show, the four new cover songs, “Cygnus X-2 Eh” outtake, Hugh Syme’s song-specific artwork and Rob Bowman’s liner notes.

The third configuration will be offered as an audiophile 180-gram four-LP Deluxe Edition featuring the same audio content as the three-CD edition with double-gatefold packaging, 32-page vinyl-size booklet, the special 12-inch turntable mat, along with Syme’s artwork and Bowman’s liner notes.

This three-CD Deluxe Edition, features the Abbey Road Mastering Studios 2015 remastered edition of the album on CD for the first time; a complete Rush concert recorded in February 1978 at London's Hammersmith Odeon, newly mixed by longtime Rush engineer and original A Farewell to Kings producer Terry Brown from the multi-track live tapes; four newly-recorded cover versions of songs from the original album by Dream Theater, Big Wreck, The Trews and Alain Johannes; and an instrumental studio outtake of the spacey sound effects of “Cygnus X-1” the band has creatively titled “Cygnus X-2 Eh.” The 3CD set also includes an elaborate new 40th anniversary cover treatment by longtime Rush creative director Hugh Syme, who has also created a new piece of artwork for each of the album's six songs, and an extensive 12,000-word liner notes by Grammy®-winning rock historian Rob Bowman.


DISC 1:

Original Album - Produced by Rush and Terry Brown

A FAREWELL TO KINGS
XANADU
CLOSER TO THE HEART
CINDERELLA MAN
MADRIGAL
CYGNUS X-1
 

DISC 2:

Live at Hammersmith Odeon – February 20, 1978

BASTILLE DAY
LAKESIDE PARK
BY-TOR & THE SNOWDOG
XANADU
A FAREWELL TO KINGS
SOMETHING FOR NOTHING
CYGNUS X-1
 

DISC 3:

Live at Hammersmith Odeon – February 20, 1978

ANTHEM
CLOSER TO THE HEART
2112
WORKING MAN
FLY BY NIGHT
IN THE MOOD
DRUM SOLO
CINDERELLA MAN

XANADU – Dream Theater
CLOSER TO THE HEART – Big Wreck
CINDERELLA MAN – The Trews
MADRIGAL – Alain Johannes

CYGNUS X-2 EH